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Very quick update this week. Still in LA, not getting bucket loads of work done.

I’ve had some great sessions with Craig on the next game, we’ve got a working central mechanic now that is already fun to play, and have fleshed out a lot of the design issues. If it’s fun now without a lot of the game elements and mechanics, without graphics, sound, or scoring, it should shape up well over the coming months.

This week we met @superbad24 from The APPera for lunch. Great guy.

I didn’t get to go to GDC this week, so I’m still smarting a little about that. Now I’m going to be eyeing sales figures and WWDC tickets for a couple of months (or at least until they sell out and it’s out of my hands :)).

Sneezies got a couple of new reviews, nice videos too. A very thorough video from Unique Apps, part of a series covering all the games in the 5 Finger Games bundle. Also a video & text review from App Smile. We also made it into Pocketgamer’s 10 games for Mother’s Day feature (it was Mother’s Day in the UK). Also, a mention on the Smoking Apple’s podcast.

Also for Sneezies, this tweet totally made our day. I used to scribble games stuff on my school work and pencil cases, and Craig used to draw Street Fighter characters for his friends in school, so the thought of someone basing their homework on our game is just mind-blowingly cute and awesome.

I think that’s all the news I have for this week. I’m way way behind on my RSS reader and totally out of the Twitter loop, so I don’t have much else to share. I did read this one cool article though: Is Cheaper Really Better? — yeah, you guessed it, it’s about the App Store.

Oh, and I was very happy to see that Mike’s awesome game Smiles was featured in the IGF section on the App Store, and that Owen’s Dapple made it into the What’s Hot rotation somewhere in the world. Featuring seems totally crucial to success on the iPhone, and there’s so much competition for so few slots, so it’s always nice to see some indies still making the cut. We still have everything crossed that Sneezies will get a slot in some list somewhere at some point.