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Sharpen Your Blink Test
In 2005, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a fascinating book titled “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.” In it, and broadly-speaking, Gladwell focuses on decision making and first impressions. Specifically, he reveals that the difference between making good decisions and bad ones has less to do with how much information we have and process than with our ability to focus on a few specific details. In this article, I will show you how you can put this information to work for your apps so that you can, hopefully, see better returns for your time and effort.
Continue reading...Track Your AppStore Launch Across the Globe
27 October 2010
This post helps you take the tedium out of tracking your launches across the globe on Launch Day.
Continue reading...AppStore Screenshots 101
8 June 2010
Since I’m a game developer, I pay more attention to the games category in the AppStore than any other. The iPhone AppStore has been open to developers for over 3 years now so I’m still amazed at how developers can get their screenshots so wrong.
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- Tyler: Thanks for sharing this, it was really helpful when doing my implementation....
- Jessy: If memory reduction is actually a driving force, then using uncompressed textures isn't the right solution. PVRTC doesn't offer a particularly simple...
- Blade: I just ported this over to UDK, got the basics of it working great. Now off to learn the Material system so I can actually build the textures for the ...
- BuffaloJ: Great tip! I've done C++ for 15 years and have used unions only a tiny amount. I can think of 5 places in my engine code that this would be very ele...
- Bob Koon: Thanks for your comment. I was saving discussion of the POW2 problem for the next article. You're right though. The biggest waste that I've seen on...
- Adam: Nice article. It raises some very useful points. It doesn't, however, address the shortcoming of Apple not including the non-POT (Power Of Two) textur...
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We have some games in the App Store that you might like. Feel free to check them out!
24 February 2011
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