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We’ve just published our latest iPhone app - the Spirit Board, a fun but spooky version of the classic Ouija board. It’s available for free at the App Store. (Here’s the link!)
From the game description:
“The Spirit Board welcomes you to the supernatural world. It is a dangerous and terrifying path you have chosen to take. The secrets this Ouija board reveals are not meant to be known by mortals. Men and women have gone mad, lost forever in demonic shadows.
Although the Spirit Board can be used by a single courageous individual, we strongly recommend that you not undertake this perilous journey alone. Find a trusted friend to accompany you in your search for ultimate truth.
Place your thumbs on the spirit disks and hold the Spirit Board as still as possible. You need not guide the Board; the spirits will take control.
Ask your question. Then watch the pointer and speak the letters it indicates, in a respectful voice. When your session is complete, post the spirits’ reply to the Comments section, so that others may learn from your experience. . . even if you have been bound in a straitjacket and confined to a small padded room, where you can do yourself no harm.”
Responding to subtle but popular demand we have yielded and made our paid Clownce game into the free Clownce Lite! But not to worry, those of you who want to give us money there’s the even more awesome Clownce Deluxe! Gets yours today!
Our latest app, Clownce Deluxe, is now in the Apple app store! It’s a re-imagining of a classic, using nostalgic vintage style graphics.
We recently posted this ad on Craigslist for a project/product/office manager:
(project|product|office) manager needed for startup (Venice)
We’re a modest, garage-based, dotcom micro-incubator and consulting company. Our properties include internet sites, Windows applications, and iPhone apps. We’re looking for a moderately anal retentive sort who will be an organizing influence on our company, while not being so unpleasantly rigid that we’ll suddenly hate our jobs and/or consider taking our own lives.Your primary responsibility will be to focus our energies, but given that we are a small company you’ll likely not be fully absorbed with that task and we will expect you to assist with business, marketing, trash hauling, and anything else required in our quest for peaceful and benevolent world domination.Experience with project management in a dotcom setting would be extremely useful, but on some level any relevant experience that is highly likely to produce the desired output would be considered.
Do not send your resume or qualifications until asked. All applicants must first successfully answer this question:
You are given 225 healthy cats, 1 dog sled, whatever reasonable supplies you need, and are told you have 7 days to get ready to compete in a cat sled competition. What do you do?
QvB
We’ve been getting some very insightful and interesting responses. I’ll post them as I get time and permission 
Quinxy
Jeremy Parish over on 1UP blogged about our new game, Clownce, and had a few nice things to say. Read the blog entry.
As with so many other iPhone developers, I ran into the dreaded “Your mobile device has encountered an unexpected error (0xE800003A) during the install phase: Verifying application” error. I tried resetting the device, recreating the provisioning certificates, altering the info.plist and build configurations, and nothing worked. One of my developers, Rick, was having no such problems. The only difference was that I followed Apple’s instructions about generating App Ids to include the “com.domainname” and he didn’t…
Apple’s “HOW TO: Creating Your App ID” says:
If you are creating a suite of applications that will share the same Keychain access (e.g. sharing passwords between applications) or have no Keychain Access requirements, you can create a single App ID for your entire application suite utilizing a trailing asterisk as a wildcard character. The wild-card character must be the last character in the App ID string. Example App IDs for this situation could be: R2T24EVAEE.com.domainname.* or R2T24EVAEE.*
Therefore I chose R2T24EVAEE.com.besiex.* (obviously not really R2T24EVAEE, but the id they gave us) thinking it was preferable to use the com.domainname inclusion.
Doing this seemed to cause all the problems. I couldn’t test our applications on my phone and all I got was the fatal error above.
I then changed the App ID to be only “R2T24EVAEE.*” and regenerated the provisioning certificates again, and now everything worked as expected!
The original console log (which might help others with this problem find this post):
Fri Feb 27 18:11:02 unknown afcd[145] <Error>: user mobile has uid 501
Fri Feb 27 18:11:02 unknown afcd[137] <Error>: mode is 0×41e8
Fri Feb 27 18:11:03 unknown securityd[131] <Error>: mobile_installat[139] SecItemCopyMatching: missing entitlement
Fri Feb 27 18:11:03 unknown mobile_installation_proxy[139] <Error>: entitlement ‘application-identifier’ has value not permitted by provisioning profile
Fri Feb 27 18:11:03 unknown mobile_installation_proxy[139] <Error>: verify_executable: Could not validate signature: e8008016
Fri Feb 27 18:11:03 unknown mobile_installation_proxy[139] <Error>: preflight_application_install: Could not verify /var/tmp/install_staging.UJil/application.app/application
Fri Feb 27 18:11:03 unknown mobile_installation_proxy[139] <Error>: install_application: Could not preflight application install
Fri Feb 27 18:11:03 unknown mobile_installation_proxy[139] <Error>: handle_install: Installation failed
Hope this helps you! It’s a very maddening problem to have!
Quinxy
Our first iPhone app, Clownce, is now available in the iPhone store! See Clownce at Apptism. Tomorrow we’re submitting Clownce Deluxe, which is a re-imagination of the game, to the store with modern art-y graphics!
Quinxy
Our first iPhone app has been submitted to Apple for the iPhone App Store. It’s an homage to the 1977 arcade game Circus. Rick Strom developed the game in four days. We’re going to release a variation with updated graphics next week, which will be even cooler.
We’ve got quite a few more apps in the pipeline but want to get an early sense of the development time, marketing required to get users to our apps, and profitability of app development.
I got to meet with Jason Nazar, CEO of DocStoc.com, to get his input and advice on our url shrinking, protection, and advertising platform, CR.AM. He loved it, had some great advice about promoting it and making some partnerships, and then helped get the ball rolling by promoting it on his twitter feed:
My New Favorite Site - check out http://cr.am instead of tinyurl for a badass way to share links with LOT of extra benefits
Thanks Jason!
