FAYJU

Dune Rider #1 iPad UK

gaz — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:09:38 +0000

Dune Rider reached number 1 free iPad app in the UK today and is also the number 1 free iPad game in several other countries. As a Universal App its has also gained top ten positions in the iPhone game chart across much of europe. This is a pretty big milestone since the Universal update just before Christmas and great news. Dune Rider, Like our other game A Monster Ate My Homework, has also had in excess of 2 million downloads. And recently Monsters achieved Number 1 chart positions on iPhone and iPad when made free for a limited time in Italy and France among others. We are very excited about the updates that we have planned and this recent news just gives us all more reason to keep pushing out the updates and good reason to complete the in progress Mac AppStore versions. On both apps!

Dune Rider to the Max

gaz — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:30:51 +0000

Heres some YouTube videos that caught our attention of some one playing the hell out of Dune Rider, and then some!
Dune rider was designed as a sandbox style stunt driving game which makes for often unexpected scenarios… looks like we need some bigger environments.

Free for a Limted time

gaz — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:35:33 +0000

Over the past year monsters has become crammed full of awesome levels. I don’t think we should leave it there. Its well overdue an update but finally we are finding the time to devote to it. In the mean time to celebrate to simultaneous Geek Beach Launches , Mini Beasts and Death Rider we have all agreed to make Monsters Free for a limited time.

Available Here

Mini Beasts Launch

gaz — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:24:15 +0000

Mini Beasts Launched on the AppStore this week, another Fayju and Geek beach game. Above is a game play video. Its a Duel Stick Shooter with a feel of the old side scrolling shooters about it. As always we’ve tried to come up with something unique. You tear around on a sandwich shooting mini beasts. We’re working on the update which will make it a universal App with loads of extra goodies which we intend to submit this week.

Available here

Fayju and Geek Beach

gaz — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:01:27 +0000

For the past Year we have been working under the roof of Geek Beach. We have now moved out and are re-establishing ourselves as Fayju.
Fayju began in early 2009 as a out of hours part time obsession of ours. It never got the attention it deserved until now. From late 2010 to recently as part of an exciting new company called Geek Beach we created some fantastic titles that we are very proud and excited to continue to work with and update. Namely, A Monster Ate My Homework and Dune Rider. In addition to this, we are also incredibly excited about several other projects that we are developing in partnership with Geek Beach that are due to hit the AppStore over the next few months before Xmas.
Its going to be awesome.

Frog box Xmas FREE Update Released!

gaz — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:50:40 +0000

Frog box Xmas update was released today. That was much sooner that I had expected. You can get it by clicking on the icons above. The problem now is I don’t expect to see any new users unless I go out specifically to promote it. For now I will leave it and see how many people update it. Its a tricky app because it gets very mixed reviews. It is what it is.. a free playful app. It will take time to move from playful toy to game but we will get there.

Frog Box Xmas update in review

gaz — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:13:32 +0000

The frog box xmas update made it to review , no idea if it will make it out before xmas. We will see. Essentially in this update we have done away with the box section and the ball section and focused on the classroom, since this seems to be the most popular. We have made the objects in the space movable – such as the computer and dustbin and for a bit of fun put some sports balls in there. You can move them by either throwing the ragdoll at them or by touching and dragging them. Since its xmas we also put a ragdoll santa into his own custom room with a xmas tree.
The Control System has also been changed. Not as mentoned in an earlier post but a more simple way to interact. Since it is not golf yet we still wanted the user to be able to flick the frog about but the element of time has been removed and now it its pull back from the frog, an arrow will appear and depending on the distance of your touc on release from that arrow, thats how hard you will throw the frog. Perhaps the next update will offer multiple control systems. Any way It was submitted just over a week ago, lets see if it gets there before xmas – here are some screen shots:

FAYJU BALL INTERFACE

gaz — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:13:43 +0000

We’ve given lots of thought to the interface for FAYJU BALL, but I think there is now a solution. To use thumbnails of all the levels. This is the levels that are present in the version on the App Store, and we have ten more that have been created for the next release. Putting the levels together like this looks pretty interesting and as the levels grow and become more varied different visual combinations of the levels should look exciting. Any way here is what they look like together:

fayju ball Levels

FROG BOX updates

gaz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:02:49 +0000

We have been playing about with various different things with the frog. I had him swinging from a rope at one point, Hal made a fantastic motor bike so i had him driving along in that nothing finished or polished yet. But I have come to realize that although making Dead Frog Golf the main target, it is quite a big game and there are little games that need to be made on the journey to complete Dead Frog Golf… or whatever it gets called in the end.

Currently I am looking at his control system, its tricky trying to find a balance between effectiveness and understandability Heres what it currently looks like.

and here are some different tests we have been doing with the frog.

FAYJU BALL was free for a day

gaz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:44:27 +0000

Wow what a day. I decided to make FAYJU BALL free for a day and announce it on the touch arcade forum. I am currently integrating open feint into FAYJU BALL and a series of other apps so considering FAYJU BALL has a relatively low user base I thought It might be interesting to make it free for a day. 20 times more people than already have the app since it has been out downloaded it in that one day. heres the post on touch arcade :
http://toucharcade.com/2009/11/17/fayju-ball-3d-ball-roller-is-free-for-a-day/
also in the same day I saw a post on pocket gamer
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/Fayju+Ball/news.asp?c=16805

Now I have put it back to $.99 , I was tempted to leave at free.