CARtic

If you’re an avid Skype user like me here are few hacks & tools that you will be interested: 

Skype as a portable USB app

Merge your Skype history with your old history, skyperious is the tool that will enhance you to compare your chat history & merge. https://suurjaak.github.io/Skyperious/

Web Skype is something that comes handy nowadays 

Skype’s integration with Outlook.com is amazing, it’s like Gmail integration with GChat. If you don’t have an outlook account, I would suggest you to sign-up one & add it with your current Skype profile to enjoy the advantage.

Share conversations & Invite any one to hop on a Skype chat via URL - more info+ https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34569/how-do-i-create-and-share-a-new-conversation-in-skype-for-windows-desktop

Skype handle pick tips:

Try to get the same handle for Skype & Twitter.

Avoid importing FB account/contacts to Skype, if you wanna use Skype for Professional use.

Happy Skyping :) 

#gamedev mantra that we should follow to survive in this #AppStore world. 

“I don't want to make addictive games people play forever. I want to make games people play and finish before moving on to their next game.”

Recently Apple & Google has slashed AppStore prices for Indian game market. 

However I feel its up-to the mobile game giants to step-up and feed more contents at the slashed AppStore price to Indian mobile gamers. This will drive Indian mobile gamers towards using IAP, as I’m sure the market will remain hub for F2P.

TY Rovio for the push, Rovio appoints Anurag Sachdeva as country Director to handle mobile games marketing in India.

I feel Reliance games, Nazarra & Games2Win should step-up too, before its too late.

~ Cartic

No one can predict a good time for launch game, here’s a list of worst timeline to launch/promote your games:

Over weekend

Late friday

Key announcements in Oct/Nov

Around E3/June

Stay away from summer holidays 

Don't launch your PC/console indie game in October, November or December

Your mobile game needs 3 weeks of time in the press before launch.

TY @icotom for sharing the stats. Read the full article in here  

TY Rami Ismail for insights https://twitter.com/tha_rami/status/626448918046445568 | https://twitter.com/tha_rami/status/626448956327915520

~ Cartic

If you’re an evernote addict like me & you’re looking for a way to sync your todo list in your PC as sticky notes to evernote:

download the evernote sticky notes app in here Evernote_Sticky_Notes

ck out the tutorial video in 

Happy Evernoting :) 

~ Cartic

Apple Watch has the distinctive hardware in place (battery power, microprocessor chip,,,,) that makes the watch more powerful than any other smart watch available in the market now. However I feel samsung will copy cat & will try to come up with another sub-par hardware. 

I guess real distinctive things are its 1. Design 2. Pricing strategy & 3. Developers

Design: Let it be Apple Watch Sport or Apple Watch or Apple Watch Sport, I guess Its self explanatory ... here are some clicks for your ref. more in here http://www.apple.com/watch/gallery/#apple-watch-edition-18-karat-yellow-gold-case-bright-red-modern-buckle

Price: Pricing games are very important to Apple, here are some ref. notes from Behaviorial economist Richard Thale

“Apple has played this game with itself by launching products such as the iPhone at artificially high reference prices - the iPhone cost $599 when it first hit the streets - and then rapidly lowering that price. Today, a $199 iPhone seems like a steal; Apple in essence is using its first-iteration pricing as a reference to make its current products feel affordable. You may be on the fence for a $499 iPad, but if it drops to $399 by Christmas, won't you feel better?”

I guess they will do the same with Apple Watch too...

Developers: Apple’s relation with developers is incredible & its great when compared to total sum of Google, Amazon, Pebble, samsung,,,, 

As you can see that most of essentials apps are already available in Watch/AppStore market - Twitter, Evernote, instagram, espn, nytime, openTable,,,, full list in here http://www.apple.com/watch/app-store-apps/

with some of my favorite apps are in WIP phase for Apple Watch like Feedly https://medium.com/feedly-behind-the-curtain/an-exploration-with-apple-watch-by-feedly-9a2e91deba1f

Being a biz guy for mobile games & apps the number of apps or games development scope I have come across for any other smart watch is NONE. Whereas I’ve been getting into discussions of at-least 1+ Apple watch game development scope or ideas for the last couple of weeks. 

As a fellow game evangelist, Im really looking forward to the success of this new tech piece from Apple, cheers. Please post your comments below

~ Cartic