Rob, from Appburgh and author of If People Have Tails, was kind enough to have a quick chat with me about his experiences with Kwik. Enjoy! Kwiksher) What is Appburgh and what do you do? Appburgh is a experimental startup company. We are investigating rapid frameworks to develop mobile applications. What is Tails audience? Tails is a pre-k interactive book app. Which tools have you used to create Tails? It was developed 100% with KWIK. We took a unpublished children’s book. Converted it to Photoshop and added all the interactive features with KWIK. What do you think about Kwik, having used it for the first time? It is an excellent…
Archives for October 2011
Interview with Sam Saturday
Today I am talking to Sam Saturday, who made two apps with Kwik in about a week only! Sam is sharing his experience with us, and I invite everybody to do the same. Kwiksher) Tell a little bit about you and your companyMy name is Sam Saturday and my company is Saturday Buffet (http://saturdaybuffet.com). My company specializes in producing video trailers for authors to promote their books. But I’m also using Saturday Buffet as an app & game design and publishing company. What is your app about?My first app is called “The Magic Chicken.” It’s a children’s storybook created by author Corky Portwine (http://corkyportwine.com). The Magic Chicken is aimed at…
Interview with Travis Daub
This week I had the pleasure of having Travis Daub, from MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, sharing a little of his beautiful magazine Triple Crown, available for free at the AppStore. The app is also found at the New and Noteworthy section of the store and it is a great example of the versatility of Kwik. Kwiksher: Can you tell a little bit about you and your company? I work for MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, which produces the PBS NewsHour. We’re a nightly national television news show which is distributed on public television stations. Several years ago, we integrated our digital and traditional broadcast groups in a step towards becoming more “platform neutral.” Since then,…
Guest Post: Creating the Flickering Candle Sprite
This week I invited Malcolm, from Linlou Creative Arts, to share with us some tips on his current project. I hope you enjoy and get excited to contact me to share yours too! Below, Malcolm words: One of our current interactive projects is a Christmas story titled “The Night Before Christmas……The Gift.” In looking for creative ways to display the story text we wanted to use a window that had a very rich, old text looking sort of appearance. What we settled on was an ancient parchment scroll. In keeping with our ancient text theme, we thought it would be cool to illuminate the scroll window with candle light. Candle…
[Updated Posting] In-App Purchase in Kwik 1.7 – Walk-through
In the past months, several requests about In-App Purchase (IAP) with Kwik came up and, according our police to provide your requests first, I would like to announce that IAP will be one of the top features of the upcoming 1.7 version. I have to say that I am curious why this is one of the top requisitions. IAP is complex to setup (more below) and most of the current apps made with Kwik at this moment don’t seem to require this new feature. Saying that, I would like to anticipate how to use IAP with Kwik 1.7. First thing to understand is that IAP can be implemented in two…
Survey results and free webinar
Few weeks ago, 53 users voiced their opinion on what we should focus for the next Kwik’s release. The chart below shows that animation stills a top request, followed close by in-app purchase. A little behind, multi-language projects, ebook export, then magazine related features. 28 open-ended responses were received, most of them proposing new features, asking for long term requests (mostly page curl ), and sharing good words about Kwik (in fact, only 1 complained about bugs not fixed – I personally would love to receive the list of them for this unknown user). For the full list (total transparency commitment), check here. Again, thanks for your help here. All…