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Little White Bear Studios joined us on our podcast this week and discussed their latest game Compression, the iPad and their experience with FreeAppADay.

Little White Bear Studios

• Compression – Their latest game in which Tetris meets Bejeweled. This husband/wife team made the switch to full time just this past September and talk about their success and plans for the future. We also discussed the new iPad and their participation in FreeAppADay.com

Games We Played

• Vector Runner ($0.99)
• Angry Birds ($0.99)
• Arctopia ($1.99)

Podcast music provided by Overclocked Remix.

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In the wake of Apple's keynote today unveiling the iPad, we rounded up Dave Castelnuovo and Allan Dye from Bolt Creative, Anders Mårtensson from Illusion Labs, Natalia Luckyanova and Keith Shephard from Imangi Studios and Bruce Morrison from Freeverse to hear what four successful iPhone development studios thought about the new device.

The reception amongst this group of developers was remarkably positive, and everyone had ideas for new projects exclusively for the iPad, as well as refining or enhancing existing games to take advantage of the additional screen real estate and processing power of the device. We also discuss the niche that the iPad will likely fill, and what kind of usage patterns we expect the device to see once it is available for purchase.

Music lovingly lifted from the Steve Jobs YTMND.

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Igor Pusenjak of Lima Sky joins us this week for our podcast. We talked about Doodle Jump's massive success and their plans for the future. We also spent some time talking about a few recent iPhone games as well as what we saw at CES 2010.

Lima Sky

• Doodle Jump – We talk about the massive success of Doodle Jump and their plans for the future.

Games We Played

• ReBounce ($0.99)
• Sword & Poker ($0.99)
• Cartoon Wars-Gunner ($0.99)

CES 2010

• Parrot AR.Drone
• Posimotion's Helix Gaming Grip

Podcast music provided by Overclocked Remix.

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Kepa Auwae of Rocketcat Games joins us this week in our first podcast of 2010. We sat down and talked about Hook Champ, some future iPhone games and the recent rumors of an Apple Tablet.

Rocketcat Games

• Hook Champ – We talk about Hook Champ, the development process, and their plans for the future.

Upcoming Games and News

• Unreal Engine 3
• Mirror's Edge for iPhone
• Marble Madness
• Apple Tablet Rumors

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Our podcast had a couple of weeks off with the holidays and some difficulties in coordinating an international guest, but we're back this week with a Year of 2009 roundup episode.

We invited David Kalina and Randy Smith of Tiger Style Games to join us on this week's podcast. Of course, since their game Spider Secret of Bryce Manor was one of our favorite iPhone games in 2009, they seemed a natural fit for the show's theme. After our interview with them, we had everyone pick two of their favorite games in 2009 to talk about.

Tiger Style Games

• Spider Secret of Bryce Manor – David and Randy talk about how they started Tiger Style, their newly released update and Hornet Smash game, as well as hints of their future plans.

David's Picks

• Zen Bound
• geoDefense and geoDefense Swarm

Randy's Picks

• I Dig it and I Dig It Expeditions
• Crayon Physics Deluxe

Blake's Picks

• Soosiz
• Rogue Touch and Sword of Fargoal

Eli's Picks

• Canabalt
• Hook Champ

Arn's Picks

• Sway
• Flight Control

Everyone had a hard time narrowing down to only 2 games each to talk about. We will be organizing our formal TouchArcade Best of 2009 picks which should be coming soon.

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