Does anyone else think their logo is a little too prominent on these?
With the big bright logo text on the black background, it looks like advertising. (Well, of course it IS advertising, but I mean like junk mail advertising. If I got one of these I'd be halfway towards tossing it before I saw any of the other text.)
I have this game, and there's probably two things keeping it from success.
First, it's hard. If you think it looks like a kids' game you haven't played it. Expect high scores of something like "5" or "10" until you get good. The App Store is full of easy games that make people feel good about themselves, and any app that's actually a challenge takes a kicking.
Secondly, it's not an original game. It's a clone, and there are other clones too of the same game. Theirs is the best clone, and the prettiest, and the gravity mechanic is just what the original was lacking in my opinion. But there are still at least two others out there that do almost exactly the same thing, and this one was the last-to-market too.
Seriously, do you hear makers of Tetris clones bellyaching about low sales? "But mine is the shiniest Tetris in the App Store!" Nahh, not cutting it. If you're gonna be a clone, be the FIRST, not the third, and if you are the third and don't see sales, well, that's life.
Hmm, although it'd probably provide some flavor while drinking, I'm not totally sure that it would be much fun to *eat* your lovage straw. They strike me as pretty tough. It's still technically *edible*, I guess, but so is paste.
Props to their bioengineering skills, but there's been a low-tech way of doing this for... well, forever.
Lovage, a close relative of celery, has tubular stems already. I remember someone calling into NPR's The Splendid Table a few years ago with the question "What do I do with lovage?" and the host's first answer was "Bloody Mary straws!"
Nurseries that sell a lot of herbs ought to have it. It's a really good herb anyway -- albeit really strong -- and is worth having around for non-straw purposes, too.
I'd also like to note that "Goat In!" is a pretty common exclamation in goatherding. It's what you yell when you've been trying to get a goat into something (a barn, a box, a sweater, etc.) and you succeed, so that the other goatherders know that the goat is currently in, rather than, for example, out.
It's obvious that none of you spend a lot of time among goats and those that herd them.
Blake: Where did the "30%" come from? (In: "Of the 30% 40 and over male customers...") It's not in the linked article.
If (over) 70% of the gamers were women 40 and over, and 30% of the gamers were men 40 and over, that means that 0% (or less!) of people buying casual games are under 40!
On the other hand, I suppose it's nice to see that these potentially dangerous and morally suspect so-called "games" are being kept out of the hands of that impressionable "under 40" crowd!
(On a serious note, it looks like 535 of the study's 1302 participants were women over 40. Are women over 40 really 41% of the population, or is the 70% dominance of the older women due (in part) to a somewhat disproportionate number of older women surveyed in the first place?)
@Art Guy: LOL (really). My first thought was "I had that phone!" Whenever I think of the neon phase of the 80s the first thing I think of is that phone. Clear + Neon + Flashing lights. I think I still have it sitting around somewhere. We haven't yet reached the stage where that's retro yet, but I fear it's coming soon.
(Oh, Crystal Pepsi was a stupid idea, but as a soda it wasn't all that bad.)
Anyway, hit the link below... is that your phone? This one's really similar to the model I had... although I have to admit that, even in the throes of the color-blind 80s, I wouldn't have add a bright red cord to it. Maybe that was the reason for the spread of neon... neon colors just don't go with any other colors. So you get one hip neon geegaw and suddenly everything else has to be neon to match...
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Apr 13th 2011 12:38PM (TUAW.com)With the big bright logo text on the black background, it looks like advertising. (Well, of course it IS advertising, but I mean like junk mail advertising. If I got one of these I'd be halfway towards tossing it before I saw any of the other text.)
An app with everything but sales
Dec 17th 2009 6:41PM (TUAW.com)First, it's hard. If you think it looks like a kids' game you haven't played it. Expect high scores of something like "5" or "10" until you get good. The App Store is full of easy games that make people feel good about themselves, and any app that's actually a challenge takes a kicking.
Secondly, it's not an original game. It's a clone, and there are other clones too of the same game. Theirs is the best clone, and the prettiest, and the gravity mechanic is just what the original was lacking in my opinion. But there are still at least two others out there that do almost exactly the same thing, and this one was the last-to-market too.
Seriously, do you hear makers of Tetris clones bellyaching about low sales? "But mine is the shiniest Tetris in the App Store!" Nahh, not cutting it. If you're gonna be a clone, be the FIRST, not the third, and if you are the third and don't see sales, well, that's life.
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Aug 19th 2008 11:36PM (TUAW.com)Duda Farm develops "celery straws," crazy straws bend their necks in shame
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Jan 7th 2007 12:39PM (Engadget)Lovage, a close relative of celery, has tubular stems already. I remember someone calling into NPR's The Splendid Table a few years ago with the question "What do I do with lovage?" and the host's first answer was "Bloody Mary straws!"
Nurseries that sell a lot of herbs ought to have it. It's a really good herb anyway -- albeit really strong -- and is worth having around for non-straw purposes, too.
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Nov 11th 2006 1:15PM (Joystiq)It's obvious that none of you spend a lot of time among goats and those that herd them.
Study: Old people prefer casual gaming to golf, knitting, talking to humans
Aug 15th 2006 12:15AM (Joystiq)If (over) 70% of the gamers were women 40 and over, and 30% of the gamers were men 40 and over, that means that 0% (or less!) of people buying casual games are under 40!
On the other hand, I suppose it's nice to see that these potentially dangerous and morally suspect so-called "games" are being kept out of the hands of that impressionable "under 40" crowd!
(On a serious note, it looks like 535 of the study's 1302 participants were women over 40. Are women over 40 really 41% of the population, or is the 70% dominance of the older women due (in part) to a somewhat disproportionate number of older women surveyed in the first place?)
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May 18th 2006 7:25PM (Joystiq)(Oh, Crystal Pepsi was a stupid idea, but as a soda it wasn't all that bad.)
Anyway, hit the link below... is that your phone? This one's really similar to the model I had... although I have to admit that, even in the throes of the color-blind 80s, I wouldn't have add a bright red cord to it. Maybe that was the reason for the spread of neon... neon colors just don't go with any other colors. So you get one hip neon geegaw and suddenly everything else has to be neon to match...