Archive for November, 2009

rTag Added to Nokia OVI Store

We have been noticing a spike in traffic and when our CTO looked into it, we discovered that the Beta version of the rTagger Mobile Application has been added to the Nokia OVI application store. Nokia has been working on this store for years and it is finally here.
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Oct 31 – It’s All Over

Well, 1495 is well short of 70,000. So was the player drive a failure? Of course not!
We gained over 1300 players and learned tons about building out a game player-base. One of the biggest lessons learned is that simplicity is key to building a good mobile game. rTag ties in the Web and WAP as [...]

Oct 30 – Final Share Stats

Season Three’s sharing is provided by the “AddThis” sharing solution. Great service, I was able to implemented the feature in less then five minutes. As far as sharing of rTags, there has not been any shares or trends to note. Most appear to be me. I think this has way more to do with the [...]

Oct 29 – Kid’s Version of rTag?

We have often asked ourselves if it would be advantageous to create a version of rTag branded for kids. One genre the certainly has not made huge in roads in to building their own player-base is the kids-games-for-mobile-phones. The reason is obvious, not income, but maybe there is an overlooked niche here. Maybe not.
Player Count: [...]

Oct 28 – LBS-Gaming Monthly?

rTag is planning the launch of our first e-zine based on LBS Gaming. We will be posting articles here. Feel free to post suggestions on topics and features.
Player Count: 1481

Oct 27 – Death of the GPS stand-alone?

Garmin and TomTom stand-alone GPS unit makers are both facing competition from mobile devices that accomplish every thing these stand alone GPS units can and much more. How can either of these companies expect to continue selling hardware? It would behove both of these firms to create high-end software for mobile devices that leverage their [...]

Oct 26 – Great Test Pool

We are at a point now where the steady flow of new tagger and the current users provide us with a really good group to test game tweaks on. The players at different points of the game show us if different changes are effective.
Player Count: 1469