Charilaos Kalogirou

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FlyCraft Herbie: Crazy Machines Teaser [VIDEO]

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on July 1, 2014July 1, 2014

So the new game is “FlyCraft Herbie: Crazy Machines”. It is a FlyCraft spin off where you get to fly some premade vehicles that were inspired by players creations. Below you can see the small teaser I prepared just to get you started: The game will be released some time next week on BlackBerry, iOS and […]

Flappy Herbie Saga: Trolls of the Forest

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on February 21, 2014

Flappy Bird did it. The most simple game ever build at the top of every AppStore. How frustrating can that be to big game development companies that put hundreds of thousands of dollars into developing and marketing their games? It is so funny to follow this industry. You can never predict the future. I was feeling […]

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How the world looks with different app stores

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on February 19, 2014February 19, 2014

Below are the revenue maps for my apps, from Apple App Store and BlackBerry World. As you can see with Apple the US is king, while with BlackBerry the king is Canada. Hint: Combine the two and you got the whole north america 😉

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Happy birthday Herbie!

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 31, 2013

It is amazing how fast time can fly… is was exactly one year ago when FlyCraft was released on BlackBerry World. Herbie is turning one year old today! So much has happened in the past twelve months that sometimes it’s hard for me to believe that it was just one year ago today that Herbie […]

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The numbers: The BlackBerry World and S4BB

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 22, 2013

A “scandal” hit the news recently that caused a lot of discussion and even BlackBerry itself was forced to publicly respond. I am not talking about anything else than the S4BB story about the 47000+ it has published in the BlackBerry World store. Since I have recently created an infrastructure that monitors the BlackBerry World for […]

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FlyCraft: The success story

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on March 13, 2013

Back in October 2012 I had the bold idea of taking part in Ludum Dare’s October Challenge. Having done game engine and game development projects in the past I knew what kind of huge challenge this was going to be. Nonetheless I still knew I wanted to do it. Already being in a game idea […]

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FlyCraft got released, we have the dollar!

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on November 1, 2012November 1, 2012

That is right! We managed to do the release yesterday and we even got the dollar (we are actually #1 Top Paid Game at the moment I write! [boast]way over Angry Birds =D[/boast] . You can check out our October Challenge entry here: FlyCraft – October Challenge Entry It was a roller coaster ride to […]

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Introducing FlyCraft for the October Challenge 2012

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on October 3, 2012

Good day everyone! I am so glad to announce to you that I am taking part in the Ludum Dare October Challenge 2012! Me and Thanasis will be creating a new game from scratch in just 30 days, and make a dollar (at least hopefully!) out of it. Please have a look at our announcement […]

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Porting your iOS game to Blackberry Playbook (and future BB10 phones)

Charilaos Kalogirou Posted on August 31, 2012September 8, 2012

Continuing after my latest post about porting existing iOS games written in C/C++ to the Android platform, here I am again writing about my latest porting endeavor that brings Pop Corny to the third platform! Ever thought of porting your iOS game to the Blackberry Playbook? Well, here I will share some insight of what […]