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Interview with LogiTales

In the past, we used to interview all the authors, when they published their Kwik made apps. With more and more apps getting into the stores, this practice became impossible to be done, reason why we decided to create our Showcase to, at least, highlight everybody’s work. We are happy to announce that we will interview App of the Month winners, as well as authors with distinguished works or services. Hopefully these interviews will inspire others to follow their lead while creating great content. Today we talk to Nuriza, from LogiTales. She is the author of “Zala and the Treasure Cave”, my “current favorite” storybook made with Kwik 🙂  …

Partnership with Swipea

We are glad to announce a new partnership with Swipea, makers of several children storybook apps, with more than 1M downloads. Swipea just released their KIDS1 (pronounced kids-wan), in-app banner advertising for kids’ apps developers. The service is an innovative, effective and affordable way of advertising children’s apps to parents and kids. KIDS1 is a one-day in-app advertising campaign with large format banner ad (600 x 440 px) designed to maximize exposure and click rates for your kids’ app banner ad. Celebrating their 1 million app installs milestone & for a limited time period, Swipea would like to offer Kwik users their first KIDS1 campaign for only US$75 (65% off…

Kwiksher’s Partner Program

We would like to announce our Official Certified Partner Program, available to any company or individual who demonstrated good skills using Kwik and that would like to resell the plugin in a specific country or region. With more and more people using Kwik, it is time to increase our official network of experts in sales, training and consulting areas. Program Benefits: Certified Partners will be able to sell Kwik directly to their customers with up to 20% discount (our recommendation is to give 10% discount to the end customer and keep the other 10% as an incentive for the sale); Priority access to the Kwiksher team in support cases; Access…

School of Visual Storytelling (SVS) is offering the first Official Kwik Course!

Today we are very happy to announce our fist Official Kwik Course: Learn Kwik Class. Offered by School of Visual Storytelling (SVS) in both full or offline classes, the training will be hosted by Alex (me) and Will Terry, children’s book illustrator. Classes start on September, 17th and run till November, 5th (8 live classes, happening all Tuesday’s nights). Targeting new or not so experienced users, the course will provide full content on how to create a completed storybook app, including how to plan, build, distribute in major app stores and market it. Looking forward to see you there – did I mentioned the live class has only 25 spots?

App of the Month: Kids Song Planet

Facebook survey votes (less than twenty votes) did not make justice to the great apps made with Kwik in July. Hopefully this will change in the next months, when people gets familiar with the new App of the Month Award. Kids Song Planet is one of the best apps made with Kwik to date. The illustrations are gorgeous, animations are perfectly timed and the songs selection is addictive. The team from Mooblegum did indeed a great job. With more than 100 interactive elements in 6 songs, 2 mini games, and with the possibility to play the tune together with the song, users will have hours of fun playing! The sing…

Kwik “Next” update: current apps in need!

Dear all, As you know already, I am working on Kwik’s next major release  – more here – and the first step is to keep compatibility with current apps. One of the major changes in the background is to move to Corona Labs’, under development at this moment, new scene/page management system (one of the reasons I cannot start the beta program now). Saying that, I am re-publishing all the demos I have to check if the new code works as expected and, I need your help to check what “real people” are doing with Kwik. If you have a project following the requirement list below, let me know: Your…

Announcing the App of the Month Award

With more and more apps being made with Kwik, we decided, with your help, to reward the best ones every month. Say hello to “App of the Month Award”! Now, when you fill out the submission form to our Showcase (just mouse over the Kwik Showcase link above and you will see the link), you will be invited to add our “Kwik Made” badge to your website. Doing so, you will automatically be running to win the award, if your app is voted the best of the month. Your app will be showcased even if you decide not to share the badge. However, you will not be able to compete…