Casual Connect: Day Two Roundup, Winners of the Indie Prize Awards

Casual Connect: Day Two Roundup, Winners of the Indie Prize Awards

After many hours of playing games, deliberation amongst the judges, and a couple hours of anticipation, the final results for the Indie Prize awards are finally in. Starting at 8PM PST yesterday, the Indie Prize Awards Ceremony kicked off and the room was full of energy and excitement. Out of nearly 100 games this year at Casual Connect, only a mere 12 walked away with an award. The awards were broken down into 10 different categories each with two nominees and one winner, the Critic\'s Choice Award, and the Audience Choice Award. So without any further to do, be sure to check out the full list below of the winners, categories and nominees by clicking the following link.

Casual Connect USA: Day One Roundup

Casual Connect USA: Day One Roundup

Well folks, the first day of Casual Connect is officially in the bag and so far the conference has gotten off to the great start. In addition to Coin Congress which starts tomorrow, Indie Prize and Casual Connect have teamed for indie developers to show off their latest and greatest game for iOS, Mac, PC, Android, or Linux. For a good portion of the first day we spent our time browsing around the Indie Prize area, getting demos from different developers, and chatting with attendees. While we don\'t have the exact numbers, according to the official website there are over 90 game development teams from 20+ different countries from around the world. Due to the limited time that was available and the judging process we weren\'t able to play every singe game there, however, we were able to still play a good amount of the games. Kicking things off we met up with the folks from The Tap Lab who were demoing Big Foot Hunter which is set to land on iOS sometime here soon. From there, a Canada based development studio by the name of Phantom Compass gave us a a quick demo of Rollers of the Realm . At the core of the game it combines classic arcade pinball with the character-driven adventure aspect of fantasy role-playing games to give a really unique gameplay experience. Moving forward, Rocket 5 Studios, another Canadian game development studio, brought their upcoming iOS title dubbed The Phantom P.I. Mission Apparition . If all goes according as planned, we are told that The Phantom P.I. Mission Apparition will be live on the App Store as soon as this Thursday for $3.99. While mingling just outside of Indie Prize and checking out all the different vendors, we just so happened to stumble upon Pig Eat Ball from a local Indiana resident, Nathan Fouts. Simply put, Pig Eat Ball is a game about flying space pigs that eat tennis balls. Players are tasked with having to eat a certain amount of tennis balls to complete a level while avoiding asteroids. You\'ll have to be careful though -- bumping into the player\'s or AI\'s pigs will cause your pig to slow down. Whoever is the first one to reach the required number of tennis balls wins the game. Even though we\'d like to take the time to talk about each individual game that we saw today, it would take too long. So with that said, if you click the following link, there\'s a full list a long with information on the lectures for day one.

We’ll be at Casual Connect USA and Coin Congress in San Francisco this Week, Don’t Miss Out!

We’ll be at Casual Connect USA and Coin Congress in San Francisco this Week, Don’t Miss Out!

With only a couple days to go until the start of Casual Connect USA and Coin Congress in our favorite city -- San Francisco -- we wanted to give you folks one last reminder that we\'ll be at these two events. If you\'d like to meet up for lunch or coffee, do an interview to be featured here on PocketFullOfApps, just want to say hi, or about anything else, be sure to drop us a line or get in touch through Twitter. While we\'re at these two events you can safely expect to see photos, coverage during the conferences, some live blogs, as well as plenty of post-event coverage. In addition, you can find PocketFullOfApps at Casual Connect USA\'s post-event parties as well as the Indie Prize Awards Ceremony at the San Francisco City Hall on July 23rd from 8PM PST to 9PM PST. See you there!

PocketFullOfApps Celebrates its 5th Anniversary, Heading to Casual Connect USA and Coin Congress in San Francisco

PocketFullOfApps Celebrates its 5th Anniversary, Heading to Casual Connect USA and Coin Congress in San Francisco

Well folks, today may seem like a normal, average Wednesday afternoon, however, for us it means something pretty exciting and special. As mentioned in the title of this post, today marks the 5th anniversary of PocketFullOfApps and we\'re ecstatic that we\'ve made it this far. Rewinding to five years ago on this very day, PocketFullOfApps was a really small website that only averaged 100 page views a day, if were that lucky. Now on average we see anywhere from 20,000 to 30,000 page views a day and average almost 150,000 unique visits every month. Sure we may not be the biggest iOS blog or website that\'s out there compared to others, but so far we\'re pretty satisfied with the progress made so far. That put aside, we will continue pushing forward to achieve bigger goals and bring you more of the same great content and articles since day one. In summary, here\'s some highlights:

• Roughly 150k unique visits/page views a month.


• Over 600k page views a month.


• Year to date -- ~4.2 million page views and ~1 million unique visits.


• Over 7,500 Twitter followers.

Looking towards the future, everyone here at PocketFullOfApps is excited to see what\'s in store and where we will be in a few years from now. To all of our readers and fans, no matter how long or short you\'ve been visiting, we would like to thank you for your continued support and reading what we have to say. Last but certainly not least, in celebration we have an exciting announcement to make about two conferences we will be attending next week in San Francisco.

Casual Connect USA

For those that may not remember, earlier this year we attended the well-known conference MacWorld in San Francisco. While at the event we did plenty of live blogs, took a lot of photos, did some interviews as well as some post-conference coverage on various topics. This time around we\'re making the trek out to San Francisco yet again for Casual Connect USA, one of the biggest gatherings for indie developers as well as mobile apps and games. In addition, we\'ll be judging in the renowned Indie Prize event as well, so be on the look out for us while we\'re on the showroom floor looking at all the vendors, cool games and everything else the event has to offer. Moving forward, if you\'d like to schedule a time to meet up, chat, grab a coffee, or get some lunch, be sure to let us know. Apart from that, you can expect to see us at some of the great post-conference networking events Casual Connect USA has to offer. While at the event we\'ll be doing some coverage, however, it\'s safe to say we\'ll do more roundups and coverage after the event.

Coin Congress

Doubling up with Casual Connect USA and Indie Prize is another conference by the name of Coin Congress. Focusing on Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies like Litecoin, Coin Congress features a wide range of speakers like Bobby Lee of BTC China, Charlie Lee (creator of Litecoin), Vinny Lingham of Gyft, Jason King of Sean\'s Outpost, and many more While we\'ll be focusing primarily on Casual Connect USA, if you\'re heading to Coin Congress by any chance, be sure to drop us a line as well. Even though our articles mainly target iOS and other Apple related subjects, we have done some coverage on Bitcoin related topics. If either of these events happen to interest you, be sure to check out the registration page for Casual Connect USA here and Coin Congress here.