The Qwak website has been down, for about a week I think. Someone (*ahem* not too far away) forgot to renew the domain registration, so the whole lot went (site and mails). I’ve renewed now with my domain registration company and so it should be back up soon (I hope). Hope it hasn’t caused too [...]

It’s only been 4 days, but Qwak is selling well, and it’s been featured by Apple, and I’m getting some really great feedback. So, here’s what I have planned for the first update…
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I’ll be adding in an option to continue your game, from where you were before you switched your iPhone off, or, took that [...]

They’re talking about the PC and Mac version of Qwak (which the iPhone version is a port of), but anyhow, here’s what Retro Gamer CD had to say about your favourite platformer…
A lot of commercial games claim to have a long history; there are plenty that have seen sequels and spinoffs across many different platforms. [...]

I love getting mail from people, no matter if it’s ‘good’ or ‘bad’, it’s all good feedback, and lets me know what I’m doing well, and what I’m doing not so well. Here’s one of the good ones, Ryan Hayward talks about the PC version of Qwak…

Don’t they look beautiful?! All 5, each one more gorgeous than the next, just sitting there, looking cute, and waiting for you to use and abuse them! (the poor things).
Okay, so if you run an iPhone games news site or blog, please grab one or more of these gorgeous screens of my soon to be [...]

I like running … OK, I love running..
I’ve done around a dozen half marathons now, and loads of 10k races. My personal best time for a half marathon was 2 years ago, when I ran the Sheffield Half in 1hr 38m 15s. Which I was very happy with my performance that day. I ran a [...]

For the past month or so, I have been super busy working on an iPhone version of Qwak, and so far, I’m very pleased with the results, the game plays very well on the device and looks pretty good too. There’s lots of action, and thanks to a little under the bonnet, jiggery-pokery, I’ve managed [...]

I’ve recently been playing around with the iPhone SDK, and getting to grips with iPhone development.
What you can see here, is an extract from a texture atlas I’ve just created, consisting of all the sprites in Qwak. Actually, there’s not that many! The original texture atlas is 1024 * 1024 pixels in size, and there [...]

A few people have been asking me for more stats on the Qwak sale, and I also wanted to waffle on a bit about the experience. Okay, so I didn’t actually do much promotion for this at all, I made a post on the indiegamer.com forums, the TIGsource forums, and perhaps one or two other [...]

Here’s my Google Analytics showing traffic before, and then during the 7 day sale period. As you can see, before the sale, I was averaging 50-70 visits per day; during the sale that shot up to almost 2,000 on a couple of days.