Make Games or Die Trying

Finally, after a long battle, with many losses and victories, the quest is over: Joystick Ninjas have finished their very first game: Brainy Smarty Party! Woohoooo! And the first thing I want to do is send a huge thanks to everyone involved, who helped to push our products out the door, and made all this possible. So thanks to Tomas Dirvanauskas, who was one of the first ninjas in JN and coded most of the parts of our game engine! Thanks to Justinas Vilimas, a special ninja, who actually implemented the game side in Brainy Smarty Party! Thanks to Lukas Lukoševičius, who made all eye catchy graphics! Thanks to Egidijus Čilčius, who composed and recorded an awesome sound track! And thanks to Tomas Jakubauskas, who was very kind to make a logo for JN! You guys rock! You are real ninjas!

Now back to the point… So what is Brainy Smarty Party? Simply put, it’s a collection of 15+1 fun and addictive games to train your brain. The coolest thing about it is an ability to post your hi-scores online, and compete with people all over the world. It also includes Sudoku puzzle, for those who are addicted to it! You know who you are. Since the pictures tell more than a thousand words, take a look at a few eye candies from Brainy Smarty Party:

For more screenshots check out Brainy Smarty Party web page here: clicky, or directly on iTunes here: clicky.

Other great news, is that we finally have our own logo! It was created by my good friend Tomas Jakubauskas, and I think the logo looks awesome. It conveys the message really well, and it literally is: we’re here to kick ass, and make great games! And here it is:

Ok, so enough reading, now go and check out Brainy Smarty Party, and buy a copy if you have an iPhone – ninjas need food too.

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As promised this is a post about our brand new iPhone app: myMotivator. Check it out now! But what does myMotivator has to do with games? Well, not much. But here’s the story.

When we started our adventures with iPhone, we thought that it would be wise to make a test app to see how everything related with iPhone works. Programmer wanted to get familiar with iPhone SDK and tools, I wanted to check out how Apple iTunes store works, how app submissions work, how to do marketing and so on. At that time I’ve remembered a cool website (now defunct) called You Are Mighty, where you could submit your name in a site url, and it would show an inspiring clip. We decided to make something similar for iPhone.

We got it working pretty quick, but since it required an awesome musical track to go along, the project was set aside, while I’ve searched for the right guy to make it. Luckily, I’ve found one, but it took a lot of time to get the music right. But in the end it was worth it. The final synchronization of text, animations and music makes myMotivator really moving! If you don’t believe and have an iPhone, then check it out on app store and see for yourself. It’s only 0.99$! As a bonus it also has a lot of inspiring, motivating and wisdom sharing quotes, and we’ve got an update coming to add even more. So if you want to get motivation or inspiration boost sometimes, then it’s a nice thing to have.

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