Author Archives: Bryan Duke

Air Hockey Gold Hits the App Store – Get it for a Steal!

Air Hockey Gold hits the App Store on Friday, March 12th 2010 for free!  Air Hockey Gold is built on the same backbone of that made Air Hockey the #1 game in the App Store.  In cooperation with Google’s new … Continue reading

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GPS Location – new from Acceleroto

With roughly 150,000 apps in the App Store, “there’s an app for that” is almost always true.  Surprisingly, I looked for an app the other day & couldn’t find exactly what I needed.  I fired up my computerized telescope the … Continue reading

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Air Hockey promo early results

The numbers are in. With a little promo work & setting the dropdown menu to “Free” in iTunes Connect, Air Hockey had 87,000 downloads in 24 hours.  As you might expect, that’s the biggest single day for the paid version … Continue reading

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Air Hockey is FREE

For one day only, our hit game Air Hockey is FREE!  We’re honored to be part of a combined Free App A Day and OpenFeint promotion. Air Hockey was originally released in July 2008 – the very early days of … Continue reading

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The first paid app is Air Hockey for webOS! Questions? Answers.

Last week Palm let the first paid apps for webOS out from behind closed doors.  As luck would have it, our Air Hockey was the first app for sale in Palm’s App Catalog.  The first 24 hours yielded an amazing … Continue reading

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Air Hockey for webOS…coming soon to a Palm Pre or Pixi near you!

Our upcoming (and no longer secret) Air Hockey for webOS was mentioned in Palm’s quarterly earnings call by Jon Rubinstein, the CEO of Palm. “The introduction of Pixi has also helped us demonstrate the scalability of Web OS and how … Continue reading

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Occurro! – game design 101 with Cocos2D iPhone

I was recently asked on the Cocos2D iPhone forum some details about Occurro!. People were interested in the game architecture, special effects & touch controls. I could definitely write a book about all the design decisions, architecture, and other aspects … Continue reading

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Want to try Air Hockey? Go to an Apple Store!

Several months ago, Apple sent a request asking for a special build of Air Hockey that they could put on devices in their Apple Stores.  They offered no extra money for us – this was to be a mutually beneficial … Continue reading

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Selling free apps – Air Hockey Free iPhone Downloads o’ Plenty

How do apps climb the charts?  I’ve been watching our Air Hockey Free battle the App Store for 19 days now and I think it’s pretty interesting.  It still has a long way to go before it’s crowned the #1 … Continue reading

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Air Hockey Free – still climbing the App Store charts

Air Hockey Free was released 12 days ago and it’s daily downloads continue to grow. Over 30,000 people have now downloaded Air Hockey Free. Over the weekend, downloads per day roughly doubled and the App Store ranking in free games … Continue reading

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Air Hockey Free – climbing the iPhone App Store charts

Air Hockey Free was released a few days ago and already over 7,000 people have downloaded it. It appeared in the US iPhone App Store late on Feb 4th (Wednesday). We posted a link to the App Store on twitter … Continue reading

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Air Hockey Free released!

Air Hockey Free just hit the App Store.  Like I mentioned earlier, it’s a free version of our $0.99 game Air Hockey.  The free version lets you play in Kiddie or Easy 1-player mode and 2-player mode.  The game has … Continue reading

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Air Hockey Free

Air Hockey started life as a very simple game with only 2-player gameplay.  Since then, Air Hockey has grown to include a great feature set and was a fixture in the App Store Top 10.  Over 200,000 people have tested … Continue reading

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Calling all iPhone devs!

Please send me a 320×480 “get well” card for Steve Jobs.  I’ll compile all I receive and submit a free iPhone app that randomly cycles through the cards. Please send the cards to cards@acceleroto.com ASAP!

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Best App Ever!

At Macworld Expo, bestappever.com announced the winners of their 2008 competition.  Air Hockey was nominated in the Best Arcade Game and Best Kids Game categories.  There was some great competition in both categories. Air Hockey won the Best Arcade Game … Continue reading

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Vote!

Our of over 13,000 other applications, Air Hockey has made the finals for 148app.com’s Best App Ever competition.  Please click on the vote buttons below to vote for Air Hockey in the Best Arcade Game and Best Kids Game categories! … Continue reading

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