Archive for the 'Trolls' Category

15
May

Pick the Trollwerks logo!

So, we’ve finally got around to formally incorporating ourselves as “TROLLWERKS INC.” for iPhone development initiatives, and we’re celebrating this by evolving the First Ascent trollsheep into a New Exciting 2K8 Brand™ logo. And we want YOUR help with this! Below the cut, we have seven possible design directions: We’d like you to comment which ones you find the most appropriately troll — that is, which of these designs reach out, GRAB you by the throat, and HEADBUTT you? Ch-ch-check ‘em out:

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26
Apr

Shipped! Mystery App

So, another project launched successfully yesterday; unfortunately, private label for A Very Big Company, so we can’t say what it is exactly — and believe you me we’re not doing anything else on those terms from now on! — but we would like to give a shout out to icon designer par excellence Swami Gattas, who graciously provided us with this Mystery App’s icon, which we have got approval to reproduce here for your tantalizement:

Swami\'s icon

On to the next challenge!

20
Apr

Shipped! D-Star Play MPE Player

And in the first of what will certainly be a veritable plethora of posts on this humble blog announcing shipment of our manifold wildly successful development projects, tonight we bring you news that the d-Star Play MPE Player is now available to members at the d-Star MPE website. This is the Australia and New Zealand partner edition of the Play MPE Player which we first shipped a couple years back for Destiny Media Technologies, whom we’ve had a long running relationship with going back almost a decade and a half now, beginning with the port of the Giger-inspired Dark Seed II adventure game to the Mac. Yes, we build enduring relationships, indeed we do. And what is Play MPE, you ask? Well, here’s an ad for you:

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18
Apr

Welcome.

“What’s wrong with being a troll under a bridge?” he said. “I was brought up to be a troll under a bridge. I want young Scree to be a troll under a bridge after I’m gone. What’s wrong with that? You’ve got to have trolls under bridges. Otherwise, what’s it all about? What’s it all for?”

     - Terry Pratchett, Troll Bridge

Welcome to Under The Bridge, created today with Technorati Authority rank 10,280,644. These are the chronicles of your humble host, Alex Curylo, widely known as ‘the Troll’. Expect to find herein a compendium of iPhone and iPod touch news and resources of interest to Cocoa Touch and Mobile Safari developers harvested from the wild Web; the annals of the development initiatives towards which the Troll bends his mighty efforts; and whatsoever other gallimaufries may be found piquant.

Enjoy your visit!