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Artist Spotlight – François Walter

I would like to introduce François Walter, from MoobleGum, already known by many of you for being the winner of our App of the Month award last August, for his Kids Song Planet app. His apps Lullaby Planet and Animal Sound Box were at the top charts in iTunes Kids category for weeks and he will share some of his learnings from that experience. Kwiksher’s questions are in bold, to facilitate the reading. Feel free to send more questions to François via comments below. I am sure he will appreciate. Enjoy! Tell us a little bit about you. Where are you based, for how long are you writing and illustration –…

Storyboard/Composer is finally here!

After many months waiting Corona Labs to release their new Composer API (their official scene management library that is now replacing Director, the one Kwik has been using since its first days, previously known as Storyboard), I am glad to share that, since build 2014.2150, the new library is available. Before anything, a would like to thanks Alex Frangeti from Corona Labs, who dedicated hours helping me to make the code compatible with the library. What a great guy! IMPORTANT: only Corona Pro and Enterprise paid users can access the daily builds. Corona Starter and Basic users will need to wait a bit more till the next Public Release. If you…

Introducing the Artist Spotlight – Anna Hines

Starting today, once a month we will introduce an artist, using Kwik to create storybook or games. The idea behind the Artist Spotlight is to promote great users, creating amazing apps. For this introductory posting, I would like to present Anna Hines, who has used Kwik for a long time, creating beautiful storybooks, the last one, “Bean’s Night“, received the Kirkus’ Star’s Review, a very hard to achieve recognition. Kwiksher’s questions are in bold, to facilitate the reading. Feel free to send more questions to Anna via comments below. I am sure she will appreciate. Enjoy! Tell us a little bit about you. Where are you based, for how long are you…

Welcome 2014!

My letter to you who, directly or indirectly, became part of my life in 2013: Dear all, What an year we had in 2013! I am truly grateful for your input helping shape Kwik and Kutt but, more than that, for the opportunity you gave me to improve my skills and become a better person. I honestly ponder about all words of incentive, support and friendship you sent. I know how time is short for providing unpaid feedback and requesting for things that should be work properly when they are not. You are really great! In a market that is still in its infancy (more on that on Crossing the…