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Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:00 am (PST) . Posted by:

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Number One iPhone App Made In One Week Without Programming - Published on 01/22/16

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California based 8cell, Inc. today announced that the iOS app, Color Switch, just reached the #1 position in the US App Store. The hit action arcade game was created by David Reichelt and built solely using the new codeless development software called Buildbox. Buildbox allows anyone to create amazing games regardless of technical skill. Due to its unique user interface, making games becomes a fluid process that doesn't require any scripting, programming or software design experience.

Los Gatos, California - 8cell, Inc. today is thrilled to announce that the iOS app, Color Switch, just reached the #1 position in the US App Store. Color Switch overtook the top position in the United States iPhone App Store last night. The hit action arcade game was created by David Reichelt and built solely using the new codeless development software called Buildbox. The game has amassed over 8,000,000 downloads, and is currently ranked number one in 34 different countries including United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Sweden.

Color Switch was created by California resident, David Reichelt, in a single week using Drag & Drop game building software called Buildbox. Buildbox is the first game development tool without any option for programming or scripting and is widely becoming known as a rapid development tool. Creators use the software by dragging images into a level editor and changing their physics and control properties to create unique games. David created the basic idea for Color Switch in only 30 minutes, and then finished the complete game in one week.

Color Switch was featured by Apple in major markets upon release and promoted heavily by the social media star, Fortafy, who published the game. This was the 31st Buildbox game to break the Top 100 iPhone Games chart in the last year and the 28th Buildbox game to be featured by Apple. Buildbox has had more Apple features and Top 100 games built with it's software than all other game building software platforms combined.

Buildbox is the world's first software that truly allows anyone to create amazing games regardless of technical skill. Due to its unique user interface, making games becomes a fluid process that doesn't require any scripting, programming or software design experience. Buildbox has been publicly available for 15 months and the company has recently announced the version 2.0 of its software.

Buildbox: https://www.buildbox.com/
Number One iPhone App Made with Buildbox: https://www.buildbox.com/number-one-iphone-app-made-with-buildbox/
Press Kit (zip): http://treyuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/ColorSwitchBuildboxPR.zip
Screenshot 1: https://www.buildbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1_Buidlbox_Connections.jpg
Screenshot 2: https://www.buildbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2_Buildbox_LevelCreation.jpg

8cell, Inc. was founded by Trey Smith in La Jolla, CA in 2007 with the goal of empowering everyday users to create amazing products through user friendly software. After many years of custom building game creation software, they debuted Buildbox in 2014. With thousands of users and many top ranked games, Buildbox has become the core product for the company. Recently, the company moved to Silicon Valley to expand their creation software lineup. All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2016 8cell, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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Trey Smith
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650-833-9693
United States
trey@buildbox.com

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LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smithtrey
Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/buildboxcom

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Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:00 am (PST) . Posted by:

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KiKi's Sand Painting 1.0 for iPad - Sand Art for Kids and Painting Lover - Published on 01/22/16

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The G-Power Team today introduces KiKi's Sand Painting 1.0, their new educational app developed exclusively for iPad tablets. Perfect for little kids, KiKi's Sand Painting uses beautiful sands to paint fun coloring pages of animals, dinosaurs and fairy tale characters. While drawing and painting will inspire their imagination and recognition, parents can see the color analysis in Parents Center as well as set a security lock and play time for their kids.

Xi'an, China - The G-Power Team today is proud to announce the release of KiKi's Sand Painting 1.0, their new educational app developed exclusively for iPad tablets. KiKi's Sand Painting uses beautiful sands to paint the fun coloring pages of animals, dinosaurs and fairy tale characters. Little kids who start to learn about color and painting lovers will find this painting way interesting and innovative. No need to prepare glue, sand, paper, just your iPad is enough.

Designer has created three themes of the coloring pages to choose from: fairy tale characters, animals and dinosaurs. No matter you have a boy or a girl, they will find their loved templates. Unlike most painting apps, the sand grain makes the painting process and result special. The magic shovel tool makes creation easy and unlimited. You can DIY the coloring pages by using the shovel tool to draw grass, cloud, house, people, everything you can think of on the templates. So it becomes unique for your artwork.

For parents who worried about kids' play time, there is the Parent Center within the app. It lets parents set the play time and period. Furthermore, parents could see their kids' color analysis and favorite templates. Get to know more about their kids.

"Sand Painting is a great way to bring out kids' imagination and recognition", says Eric Ge of the G-Power Team, "Kids love to paint coloring pages. There are no rules for their coloring. KiKi's Sand Painting is a great way for kids' free flow of creation. They can mix colors, draw things on the template with the shovel tool. Anything they want for painting."

Features:
* Two painting modes to choose: sand spraying or sand shaking
* Parent center to let you set play time and get analysis for the kid's favorite color
* Three coloring page themes in lovely animals, dinosaurs and fairy tale characters
* Want to recolor? Use the shovel tool to remove the existed sand and re-paint
* Easily share to Facebook etc. to share with family and friends

KiKi's Sand Painting is for iPad now. In the future they will release an iPhone version to make it more accessible on mobile.

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad, iPad Mini
* Requires iOS 7 or higher
* 93.5 MB

Pricing and Availability:
KiKi's Sand Painting 1.0 is $2.99 (USD), and is available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.

G-Power Team: http://www.gpower.co/
KiKi's Sand Painting 1.0: https://itunes.apple.com/app/kikis-sand-painting-coloring/id1071977472
YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAjfMjl1TCg
Screenshot: http://media.gpowers.net/pad_01.jpg
App Icon: http://media.gpowers.net/iTunesArtwork.png

Founded in 2012, G-Power Team is committed to develop image processing and photo editing mobile apps. We aimed to let every user has the chance to be an artist, record, pass on and share their beautiful moments via our apps. Copyright (C) 2016 G-Power. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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Prince Ge
Admin
86-18991905235
China
contact@gpowers.net

Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/G-Power-1708204876075881
Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/GPowerApps

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Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:15 am (PST) . Posted by:

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Digital Painting - The return to the Natural Way of Drawing - Published on 01/22/16

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Indie development team, Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon and Yong Jie Hu announce the release of Drawing Box Pro 2.0, an update to their popular painting app developed for iPad tablets. Drawing Box Pro is the best app for sketching, painting & designing on a mobile device. Taking full advantage of the new Apple Pencil, the app offers a natural way of using pencil, pens and brushes for art creativity. Each tool has been chiseled to reach the best user experience in term of comfort, realism and versatility.

Paris, France - Independent development team, Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon and Yong Jie Hu are pleased to announce the release of Drawing Box Pro 2.0, an update to their popular painting app developed exclusively for iPad tablets, with support for the new Apple Pencil. Taking full advantage of the new Pencil, the app creates an incredible return to the basics of drawing, offering a true natural way of using pencil, pens and brushes for art creativity. Each tool has been chiseled to reach the best user experience in term of comfort, realism and versatility.

"Instead of quickly implementing the Pencil into Drawing Box Pro, with unmastered effects, large lags or stiff pressure, our development team has minutely chiseled each drawing and painting tool for producing the best effects, always reaching the optimal balance between speed, comfort and versatility," said explained Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon, developer.

Anyone who has used a wooden pencil, still remember the best experience in terms of:

* Accuracy: the pointed head of the pencil doesn't hide the stroke path, letting us drive the tool with high precision and speed.

* Pressure: the pencil produces a darker line when you put pressure on its head. The tone value will instantly change with only the pressure of the fingers, you don't need to change the pencil.

* Tilt angle: by simply lower the angle of the pencil with the paper, you are able to draw thicker lines.

How Drawing Box Pro Is Managing The Apple Pencil:
"Our team has customized Drawing Box Pro specially for using the Apple Pencil with the similar feeling to a physical tool," explained Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon, developer. "Then, each tiny variation of the pressure and/or angle on the Pencil, will be instantly and clearly displayed on the iPad Pro screen. The purpose is to send promptly a visual feedback of your action, giving an immediate return sign to the user. So, you don't need to force the pressure or the Pencil angle to produce the specific effects of the drawing tools. A very light action of your fingers will generate a beautiful line, which is a highly rewarding and engaging process."

Individual Tool Adjustments:
In Drawing Box Pro, all the painting tools don't work in the same way with pressure and angle.

1) Drawing tools will clearly and visibly differentiate 350 levels of pressure.
2) The line width will increase with pressure or angle, up to 7 times its initial size (without new settings).
3) Individual settings: each tool works differently with pressure and angle variations.

* The pencil: changes its size with tilt angle, and darken the lines with the pressure
* Hatching tools: the pressure capture is inactive, but lowering the angle will enlarge the lines
* Ink pens #7 and #8: the line width will change with pressure only
* Digital brushes: pressure and angle will both change the size and the darkness simultaneously.
* Watercolor and oil brushes: pressure and angle will both influence only the stroke width
* Eraser: a high pressure will reinforce the deleting power, and the angle variation will change the erasing area

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad2 or newer
* Requires iOS 8.0 or later
* 43.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Drawing Box Pro 2.0 is free with in-app purchases, available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category. The full paid version can be tested for free during 24 hours.

Drawing Box Pro 2.0: http://www.drawing-box.com/
Download from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/app/drawing-box-pro/id1055345355
Screenshot 1: http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple69/v4/8a/62/a7/8a62a776-e908-a55b-013e-d6db6771fb06/screen480x480.jpeg
Screenshot 1: http://a5.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple69/v4/49/fc/ee/49fcee2c-5124-5e5c-4f18-609448b43159/screen480x480.jpeg
App Icon: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11375472/Drawing%20Box%20Pro/Drawing%20Box%20Pro%20Logo.png

Based in Paris, France, Indie developers Nguyen Tan Hon and Hu Yong Jie began collaborating in 2009. Nguyen is the mobile app designer and Hu is the senior engineer. Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Nguyen Tan Hon and Hu Yong Jie. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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Etienne Nguyen Tan Hon
Independent Developer
+33646713081
France
nguyenkieu863@gmail.com

Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/drawboxapp/

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Grumz 1.01 released for iOS and Android - The First Infinite Stopper - Published on 01/22/16

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Toronto based Picnic Game Labs today announces Grumz 1.01, an update to their premiere game title developed for iOS and Android devices. Grumz allows players to explore a fresh, new gameplay with a twist. By pressing and holding anywhere on the screen, players learn to control and master the continuous movement of the geometric structure. The players' reflexes and play wits are challenged by avoiding the different types of incoming Grumz. Players can also collect multiple power-ups.

Toronto, Canada - Picnic Game Labs, an emerging game development studio, today is pleased to announce the release of Grumz 1.01, an update to their premiere game title developed for iOS and Android devices. A geometric structure - glowing with energy and always on the move - bounces up and down on a vertical axis across the screen. It can be stopped momentarily by the player to avoid incoming enemies (Grumz) or to collect power-ups.

Grumz allows players to explore a fresh, new gameplay with a twist. By pressing and holding anywhere on the screen, players learn to control and master the continuous movement of the geometric structure. The players' reflexes and play wits are challenged by avoiding the different types of incoming Grumz. Players can also collect multiple power-ups that enable offensive and defensive capabilities against the Grumz to survive and score big. A minimal visual aesthetic and dream-like sound design compliments the fresh gameplay concept, instantly pulling players into a game that belongs on every mobile device.

Grumz has been awarded 1st place by industry judges for the Big Indie Pitch at the Montreal International Game Summit 2015. Describing the win, Matt Suckley of Pocket Gamer writes, "The fact that the game managed to impress the judges in only four minutes of gameplay is, to some extent, proof of its success in the moment-to-moment experience". Jim Squires of Gamezebo names Grumz "One of the best mobile games of 2015". Grumz has also been covered by Japan's Famitsu business blog.

* "Simplicity wins the day" - Matt Suckley, Pocket Gamer
* "It sounds simple, but (as you'd expect) gets challenging rather quickly. There's a beautiful minimalist approach to both the visuals and the gameplay in Grumz." - Jim Squires, Gamezebo

What's New in Version 1.01
Fixed bug with portal enemy not appearing correctly.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
* Requires iOS 8.0 or later
*48.6 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Grumz 1.01 is Free and available worldwide through the App Store in the Games category. There is also an Android version available on Google Play. For more information, please visit Picnic Game Labs online. See us on Twitter: @PicnicGameLabs.

Grumz 1.01: http://picnicgamelabs.com/game/grumz/
Download from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/app/grumz/id1055818894
Download from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.picnicgamelabs.grumz
YouTube Video (Official Trailer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrKA_FlOAmk
Screenshots: http://picnicgamelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/N_GRUMZ_SCREEN_SHOTS_1.jpg
App Icon: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mU_xIwhovSfCnWbLVXMCUpyfDf4CnNjVRxfe2EyPVsXzHzQDuFLPhRN5ip7OI63Kag=w300

Picnic Game Labs is an emerging game development studio, on a journey to make great games to share with the world. Based in Toronto, Grumz is the first studio release. Picnic Game Labs looks forward to developing gaming experiences that are crafted with excellence for the world to enjoy and inspire. All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2016 Picnic Game Labs Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.

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Benjamin Langerak
Media Contact
Canada
hello@picnicgamelabs.com

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