llopis

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Game Prototyping: You're (Probably) Doing It Wrong(gamesfromwithin.com)
4 points by llopis 16y ago|0 comments
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The Power of Free (aka The Numbers Post #3)(gamesfromwithin.com)
4 points by llopis 16y ago|0 comments
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by llopis 16y ago
I think you gain more publicity than competition (especially if it's not something that can be ripped off in a weekend). Besides, to me it's more important to share data with other developers so it's worth it for me personally, even if fina
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by llopis 16y ago
I'm pretty sure Flower Garden is definitely an anomaly. It falls in that category of not being a super-hit, but not being a flop either. Check out some of the other sales figures by Nimblebit http://nimblebit.com for games that did much b
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Making A Living (Comfortably) On The App Store (aka The Numbers Post #2)(gamesfromwithin.com)
34 points by llopis 16y ago|6 comments
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by llopis 17y ago
This is Noel, the author of the post and of Flower Garden. I was planning on leaving a detailed analysis of the effect of IAP for a later post, but you're right that some people didn't like it. Especially in the Facebook group at one point
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by llopis 17y ago
I used AppViz for most of the charts (it's a great program to keep track of your sales and visualize them in different ways). The chart with colors it's just generated from Pages since I had to do some aggregating of the different IAP items
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by llopis 17y ago
Except that human bodies are not engines. Calories in != calories out + stored energies. A healthy body will store just enough and discard the rest of the eaten food. For a much more accurate and interesting read, check out Good Calories, B
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by llopis 17y ago
Great technical book postmortem! I've also gone through the painful process of writing a technical book and I agree with everythig he says. And seriously, never, ever, think about writing a technical book for the money.
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by llopis 17y ago
Doesn't seem to work for me with pages protected with .htpasswd. The page is blank, no prompt to enter a password. Anybody else having that problem?
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by llopis 17y ago
John is a genius. No doubt about it. But he didn't come up with it, he just recognized it as a useful optimization: http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/
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I Want My Memory, Apple(gamesfromwithin.com)
53 points by llopis 17y ago|23 comments
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by llopis 18y ago
And a week and a half after release, it's up to 150 units. I guess that's more or less what I would expect of a niche app that was thrown in the App Store without any marketing.
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The One Day iPhone App Experiment(gamesfromwithin.com)
32 points by llopis 18y ago|5 comments
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by llopis 18y ago
7.5 is the ideal for me. I do a lot of running and cycling though, which make me need more sleep. When I don't, I'm fine with 6 hours. I also experimented with polyphasic sleep and it was too much of a pain as far as coordinating a schedule
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by llopis 18y ago
The original link doesn't work for me. Here's a fixed link: http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1... Seems like the Economist moved it under science.
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by llopis 19y ago
We're just using Skype for conference calls. The cost of SkypeOut and SkypeIn is something like $20/year or something. Works fine for us.
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Office Tools for Starving Startups(powerof2games.com)
3 points by llopis 19y ago|1 comments