Tabita Valsecchi is the winner of our “Design the New Welcome Screen Contest“, and it is my pleasure to have her sharing a bit of her experience with us. Kwiksher’s questions are in bold, to facilitate the reading. Feel free to send more questions to Tabita 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 writing and illustrating – in sum, what is your “story”? I live in Italy and art has always been part of me. I draw since I was child. I graduate as a teacher of Art Institute of Applied Art,…
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The New Welcome Screen Contest Winners
Here the winners of the “Welcome Image” contest (more here). Winner: Tabita Valsecchi Tabita received 1 year free subscription of Kwik and will be interviewed here in the blog. Runner-up: Reza and Mahsa Keikha Reza and Mahsa received a 3 months extension to their current Kwik subscription; Congratulations to the winners and thanks for the other entries!
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…
Contest: Design the new Welcome Screen image!
When the major release of Kwik comes next year, several new things will be announced, including the end of the Flash settings process. To celebrate the dead of this painful/annoying process, I would like to invite any Kwik user (paid or not) to participate in a contest to create the illustration that will replace the actual beta image below: This image will appear when the user launches Kwik for the first time. It has the purpose to salute new users and remind them about the importance of properly resize the plugin panel and personalize the Settings. Welcome Image Contest Design an illustration that covers the window purpose (mentioned above) and…
Kwiksher sponsored Japanese contest
Our friend Yamamoto san shares the news from the Casual game and Digital Interactive book contest, that was held in Tokyo, 23rd September, 2013 organized by ContentsOne Inc and Multimedia School Wave. Below, his words on the event and the winners. The sponsors are mainly Japanese companies such as Biglobe(NEC), IDC Frontier, Appiaries, SmartCanvas, etc and the two companies in the USA that were Corona Labs and Kwiksher! The official Tolemo contest site: http://www.contents-one.co.jp/tolemo_contest/ What interesting about the contest was that it did not make it separate the categories like casual games and digital interactive books. Games and Books were playing in the same section how much appealing to users. It was a…
Contest Winners Announcement
Last week we received the last batch of submissions for the first Kwik+Corona Labs+Code and Web contest. In total, 15 submissions, from children storybooks (the majority), to comics, adult storybook and games. Overall, great projects, making all of us very excited. Thank you very much for the submissions! Also, my kindest words to David and Inna from Corona Labs, and Andreas, from Code and Web! The following topics were evaluated to select the winners: Originality; Quality of illustrations; Story (for game or storybook); Use of Kwik 2 native features; Estimated time for publishing in, at least, one major store (as Kwik 2 is coming just in a few days, we…
Kwik 2 Contest [Updated]
In order to celebrate Kwik 2 Beta availability and to prepare the market for the full announcement later this year, Kwiksher partnered with Corona Labs and Code and Web (makers of Texture Packer and Physics Editor) to get the best upcoming apps made with Kwik 2. If you are already working on (or are planning) an extraordinary story and want to be highlighted in Kwik 2 launch PR, plus being interviewed at Kwiksher and Corona Labs website, follow the instructions below: How to participate: Download and start using Kwik 2 now – available at http://www.kwiksher.com/download-kwik2/; Create your first pages using the trial and send me (showcase@kwiksher.com) a link to a…