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Infographic: Study Shows that Facebook Gamers are a Mother Load Article by Matt Hulett, reposted with permission from Games.com. Moms. Throughout history mothers …
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What does it take to become an Art Director in the video games business? I sat down with Adam Dalley, the Art Director at Backstage, our sister Gamehouse studio in Victoria BC. to find out how he got into games, his day to day tasks and to get his thoughts on how to enter the business. 1. How did you get into the games business? After going to school for 2D animation I actually spent…
Former designer on Playdom’s Gardens of Time and Tiki Farm relocates to Seattle from San Francisco to help lead GameHouse’s fastest growing business Video-game industry veteran, Jared Brinkley, comes to GameHouse as our new General Manager of Social Game Design, and brings nearly 20 years of interactive entertainment design and development experience on titles such as Gardens of Time, Tiki Farm as well as Disney Feature Animation, Dr. Seuss, and James Bond franchises. Brinkley relocates…
This week at GameHouse, we’re super excited to bring you a GameHouse Exclusive: the new Time Management game, Legends of Atlantis – Exodus! As the lost city of Atlantis begins to sink beneath the waves, chaos reigns. Amid earthquakes, tidal waves, and collapsing cities, the last Queen of Atlantis selects you as her champion to save the people of Atlantis from a watery grave. To save your fellow Atlanteans, you must evacuate them from their…
Collapse Blast and Doodle Jump selected for Official Honoree of the 16th Annual Webby Awards The Webbys – it’s the Academy Awards for the web. And GameHouse walked away with its first-ever, make that first-two Webby Awards for Collapse! Blast and Doodle Jump. The Webby Awards presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences reviewed more than 10,000 entries before it selected the best of the web. The Academy honored GameHouse’s Collapse! Blast…
GameHouse President Matt Hulett has a new post on his blog, Startup Whisperer. The Future of Gaming Consoles is Here (Duh) points out that mult-use devices such as tablets and mobile phones are on the rise as the most popular gaming platforms, while traditional console gaming is on the decline. Check out the full post at Startup Whisperer.
Your votes have decided it: we have a winner for our March Mayhem contest! From the staunch 32 games that started it all, we’ve narrowed down the field to find your very favorite game. This game’s win represents not just a win for the game itself, but a victory in the eternal struggle between Hidden Object games and Time Management games. We were thrilled and flattered that you chose our Team Captains, GameHouse’s own Mortimer…
Well game fans, we’ve come a long way since the first day of March Mayhem. There were some tough fights, some thrilling defeats and some surprise upsets, but in the end only two games can compete, and here they are: YOUR TEAM CAPTAINS! Mortimer Beckett Delicious We’re thrilled that you voted for both of your Team Captains to represent their teams in the final showdown. Mortimer Beckett handily beat out Campfire Legends, proving that our…
We started out with 32 of our most popular games and game series, going head to head, all to answer the question: Which is better, Hidden Object games or Time Management games? Now we’re down to four games, and we’re still split evenly between Hidden Object and Time Management. That means that no matter what happens today, our championship game will be the ultimate showdown between a Hidden Object and a Time Management game. Don’t…
Round 3 was crazy! We were on the edges of our seats all day here at GameHouse – we had some big upsets and some new favorites emerge. The matches were all pretty close, but we’ve got our winners from each bracket. Ladies and gentlemen: YOUR FINAL FOUR GAMES!!! Adventures Bracket Mortimer Beckett Team Captain Mortimer is in it to win it! Even though Golden Trails has kept up a pretty serious level of competition…
We had an absolutely thrilling Round 2! Thanks to everyone who made your voices heard about your favorite games. Today, games will face off to win their respective brackets – then tomorrow you’ll meet the final four games in our championship tourney. Did you know that for the next 2 weeks, every game you play with FunTicket automatically enters you in one of our $100 prize drawings? It’s true! Without further ado, on to Round…
