Our newest game Playground Wars is out today for iOS devices (iPhone and iPad). Get Playground Wars for iOS here Playground Wars is a 2D castle defense game for iOS (and soon, Android and Facebook). In the game, you command Alex, a boy who’s playground has been invaded by bullies from the next street over. Recruit your friends and use special perks and upgrades to battle for the title King

We’ve posted a few times about several game developments we are currently involved in that are, to put it mildly, extremely exciting. We love projects on the cutting edge, and that edge right now is gamification.  While our projects are still a short ways away from release, we are still talking to clients every day about gamification: what it is, how it works, and how it can empower your campaign

I’ve been noticing a lot of hits to the site lately related to sounds in Gymboss. If you can’t hear the alarms in your Gymboss app, the problem is that your sound effects are muted or set too low. There are several channels that an app can put sounds through on iDevices, and Gymboss does so through the system sounds channel. Try the following if you can’t hear sounds in

Due in part to an issue Apple is currently having with iTunes, the release of Hiding Monsters has been pushed back to July 12. We will post here again with any news.  Thanks for your patience!

We have scheduled a release date for Hiding Monsters, the follow up to last years extremely well received interactive children’s book Hiding Hannah. Hiding Monsters is tentatively scheduled for a July 5th release date, and will be available on iOS for iPhone, iPod and iPad, as well as on Google Play for Android, and Amazon Marketplace for Kindle Fire devices. As with Hiding Monsters, Hiding Hannah is the brainchild of

A few days ago I had a simple little thought — nothing deep, just a succinct way of explaining something kind of interesting about our industry — and I tweeted it. This morning it occurred to me that this little idea is more important than I originally thought. A large percentage of the work we do is developing apps for marketing purposes.  Our goal, always, is not just to create

One of my most recurring themes — the thing I say over and over again in blogs, to clients, and in meetings — is that the software business is just like every other business. A lot of press is generated when a high school kid in his basement makes a website and sells it for millions.  But in general, the software industry does not work on lucky breaks.  This goes

The term “gamification” has been a hot buzzword in the last few months.  Forbes posted a great article about how Marriott, Deloitte, Aetna and the Department of Defense are all leveraging the gaming craze to reach their own goals in recruitment, training and health & wellness. In fact, Glowdot is now in production on two projects with major corporate clients that fall squarely into this “gamified” category, and have completed a few

Glowdot is pleased to announce that we have been contracted by Warner Bros. to develop and interactive experience to promote the upcoming Tim Burton film Dark Shadows, coming May 11. \ The Glowdot Dark Shadows app will release for iPhone/iPod Touch in the Apple App Store and the web (Flash with Facebook integration) sometime in early May, 2012.

I had planned to do these business/strategy posts at least weekly, but its been a month since the last one!  We’ve been unbelievably busy in 2012 — much more so than I ever expected, which accounts for the delay.  But I do plan on picking up the pace whenever I get a break. Lets talk a little bit about basing a business on software. Too often, the software industry is