Black Shades iPhone Breaks 1000
June 26th, 2009
Wolfire's first iPhone app, Black Shades iPhone, recently broke 1000 sales on the App Store. It's been an interesting journey and in the spirit of open development we thought we'd give you a look at how BSI has been doing. The graph above shows the BSI sales we've gotten each day since launch. We had a ...
Is E3 Useful For Indie Developers?
June 9th, 2009
Most people see E3 as a tradeshow mainly good for creating a press frenzy for mainstream game companies and their upcoming products. However, while E3 doesn't seem super indie friendly at first glance, I would argue that it's definitely worth attending. Here's why: It's Affordable E3 tickets are free for gaming industry professionals, even those working ...
A comparison of social networks
April 18th, 2009
Part of our strategy for getting the word out about Overgrowth revolves around various social networks. Pretty much the only way we grow is organically through word of mouth. This is why we take social networking sites very seriously, because we are able to grow without being dependent on (insert giant news site here) to randomly write an article on ...
Wolfire now accepts Amazon Payments
April 5th, 2009
I just added a new option for preordering Overgrowth: Amazon Flexible Payment System! This allows people to preorder Overgrowth using an Amazon.com account, and therefore any credit card, bank account, or whatever Amazon might support. As much as I love Google, I was a little frustrated with Google Checkout, which was our original alternative to PayPal, because they don ...
5 Indie PR Tips from Wolfire
March 28th, 2009
Well, GDC is finally over. The biggest highlight for us was probably when Ron Carmel from 2dboy gave a lecture on Everything you always wanted to know about going indie but were afraid to ask and gave us a shout out about how we have been drumming up publicity for Overgrowth (here are Ron's slides). The guy who yelled ...
BSi Is Back...Finally!
March 19th, 2009
Some of you noticed how Black Shades iPhone recently disappeared from the App Store. This was due to our recent switch from David's private iPhone developer account over to Wolfire's company account. We thought the switch would be instantaneous but four confusing days later, you can grab BSi on the App Store again. You can still catch it ...
Greenhouse in the House
March 8th, 2009
We like to keep you guys informed about all aspects of Overgrowth, from software development to business development. You may have seen our previous post about indie friendly distributors and seen that Greenhouse was the last straggler for a long time and we were starting to wonder if they had gone the way of Manifesto Games. Luckily, I wanted to ...