DoubleTake For Kindle Fire

DoubleTake is now available on the Kindle Fire from the Amazon App Store.

We’re really happy to have it on there, we used the Kindle Fire a lot in development, and all our Android stuff looks and runs great on that device.

Other Android users should be able to get a copy from the Amazon App Store too, if that’s your preferred store, or you can grab a copy from the Android Market.

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There is also a paid, Ad-Free, version of the game available on the Amazon App Store.

DoubleTake for Android

Our first game has been released on the Android Marketplace. DoubleTake is available now.

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Velocispider: Award Winner

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And it wasn’t just the Retro Dreamer annual araknasaur awards either this time. Velocispider won the best iOS shoot-em-up award from Reviews on the Run, a TV show that runs on G4Tv in Canada, and on the web.

It was surreal and very cool watching some real people in a studio talking about our crazy little cyborg dude, and awarding him their annual Rockets and Rayguns award.

Watch online here

Grab a copy of the game from iTunes. As well as an award winner, Velocispider is a philanthropist, 25% of December proceeds are going to Child’s Play in association with 12indieapps.com, so you can be safe in the knowledge that you’re not just putting food on some greedy developer’s xmas table if you pick up a copy before the end of the month.

My podcast with Andrey

Before we started Retro Dreamer, we used to work with Antair, essentially doing the same thing as we do now, but without the Retro Dreamer tag and the business stuff to take care of. We used to get to leave that kind of thing up to Andrey Butov, head doer of stuff at Antair. Even though we parted ways almost 3 years ago now, it was on very good terms, and I kept in touch with Andrey.

At some point, Andrey suggested starting a podcast, and a few weeks ago I said “Cool. Let’s do it.”

And here it is. What Now? Podcast

It’s completely informal, unrehearsed, often unprepared, but we’re taking about the mobile app business in as candid and interesting a way as we can manage, so hopefully some of you guys will enjoy it. So far I’ve managed to avoid getting drunk and weeping into the microphone too, so you can enjoy that tension as we post each episode.

We’re aiming for about an hour long show, basically just a conversation, I’m approaching each chat as a (very small) group therapy session. I like to think we’d have the same calls even if we weren’t recording.

We’re both pretty good at following through with stuff once we decide to do it, so you can be pretty confident that we’ll keep posting these for a while. I’ve got to give massive credit to Andrey here though, he’s responsible for the thing being edited, having a website, intro music, a name etc. Maybe he’ll end up putting it on iTunes too. If that stuff was left up to me I’d be posting a link to a shared dropbox file with 10x as many awkward pauses.

We just posted the third episode, but the first two should still be pretty topical, we were recording the shows once a week to check we had the time and learn the ropes.

So go check it out, let us know what you think! What Now? Podcast

Update: The podcast is now available on iTunes.

Best App Ever Awards

Ahoy-hoy! It’s Best App Ever Awards time again. I know what you’re thinking: what categories should I vote for Velocispider in? Well, I did some leg work for you, and here are a few suggestions, and some easily clickable links.

We have a bit of a history with the Best App Ever Awards, Sneezies was a finalist two years running, so it’s always nice when it comes back up, I get the opportunity to re-use my Vote for Pedro banner. How about those ligers, huh.

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My humble category suggestions, should you want to vote for one of our games, are as follows:-

Nominate Velocispider for Best Retro Game
Nominate Velocispider for Best Lead Character
Nominate Sneezies for Best Casual Game
Nominate Sneezies for Best Kid Distraction App

Thanks guys!