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My United States of Technology

It has been 4.5 years since my wife and I decided to move from Germany into the United States. Talking to friends and peers here I often feel they overlook something I am very passionate about and feel...

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Going Indie, June 2011

“Do you think it is a good idea to go Indie with mobile apps?” Interesting enough, I got this question a lot the last few weeks. So as my first post returning to #idevblogaday, here is the answer I...

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Follow like a Pro

Every week I see someone in my timeline tweet something like “I can’t catch up with tweets anymore, I probably need to weed out people I follow”. There are ton’s of blog posts out there on how to use...

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Designing waiting time in Freemium games

Every evening, after a long day at work, Reggie F.*, 50, tries to forget about stubborn controller tablets and whips out his iPod Touch to play some of the latest gaming jewels the Apple platform...

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Sony gets it

This week was buzzing with life-changing Tech News. Netflix’ dramatic price hike triggers a debate that pales the discussion about the US debt ceiling. 10 million people now discuss Google+ on Google+....

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A simple way to create custom Rounded Rect Buttons

This post describes how to create rounded rect buttons with variable length using a rectangular background graphic as a basis. This method requires iOS SDK 3.0 or higher. The information presented is...

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Let’s be nice to Siri

Since I read Asimov’s robot stories over and over again as a teenager, I’m fascinated with human-robot interaction. Was Asimov right and do humans generally fear robots? Or will they be winning us over...

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New Year Resolutions 2012

Since days I’m dreading the thought of writing a follow-up to last years resolutions post. Analyse the parts where I failed, try to make it a good learning and not too much whining. Or, I could focus...

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Acquisitions & IPOs

Why is it beneficial for a company that is about to go public to acquire another company? When you read about Facebook buying Instagram today, you probably saw people hinting this is related with...

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A letter from China

Do you find the latest news about iDevice adoption rates in China intriguing? Are you thinking about targeting that market with your apps or games? When I read Bruces’ post about his experience with...

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Hello again

It’s been one year since I updated this blog. I slowly feel like going back into occasional blogging again. What happened in that last year and what is happening right now is something I’m going to...

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What are you doing?

Sometimes, I use “Finding my way” to describe what I’m doing. I’ve been in that state for a while. It’s kind of a being-in-limbo mode, which is not really great, but it’s also a deliberate move which I...

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Teaming up

Good news: I have teamed up with my former co-founder Martin Schwarz. We are friends since we met at our local high school. 1987, coding as a teenage hobby with our Atari’s and PC’s meant being part of...

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Announcing ‘Sorcerer’s Wrath’

In Sorcerer’s Wrath you pave the way for as many knights as possible to make it through the battlefield. Keep fiery Dragons and rock flinging Ents in check. We are using the Rift for a unique control...

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Don’t stare at me

One of the first things that came to my mind envisioning a scenario for our game “Sorcerer’s Wrath” for the Oculus Rift, was the interactivity the game should have with the Rift itself. Where you, the...

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Why Flappy Bird’s success is probably genuine

I just wrote this response to a dev claiming the success of Flappy Bird is probably the result of app store scamming. Thought this response would be better as a blog post as it seems a hot button...

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