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Posted in News, Business, Government & Regulation, Transplant PITTSBURGH-A new video game called "Doctor Transplant" will go live and be available as a free download on the Apple App store in April, and Facebook shortly after. Developed by a professor at University of Pittsburgh's school of Public Health to encourage organ donations.

"The app world is becoming cluttered. The best launch initiatives are those that involve choosing strategic partners, creating clever story angles that dovetail with newsworthy occasions, and running a cause marketing campaign and contest. This case study will cover some of these tactics and offer some of the lessons we learned along the way."

Game Development for IOS with Unity3d, published by CRC Press in 2012, walks you through design, compatibility, debugging and publishing.

Combined video game and computer science course with emphasis on iPhone/iTouch

Computer games for pets, potential new market?

Excerpts of a late 2011 book

"Seriously Fun" Games for Jewish Learning receives Covenant Foundation Signature Grant

Q. So you designed the game and programmed it yourself? A. I did all of the art and background, I programmed the levels, I did the music, the timing. I outsourced the programming to a company in New York. I pretty much did everything I could possibly do except the raw coding itself.

"MakeGamesWithUs is a new iOS game publishing company with a twist: its focus is on helping high school and college students to build games. MakeGamesWithUs us will take the kids' creations, provide professional graphics and art and publish them in the App Store."

Profile of former Ubisoft Games executive and his new mobile games company

Forthcoming June 2012

"The article will illustrate and explain how we worked with research and our own and secondary literature to create a game that had the potential to create social change. The game Junomi was designed to address the problem of loneliness among Danish teenagers and create opportunities for the families to play and experiment with the ways in which they communicate together. The game is a location based smart-phone game that takes place in players' everyday environments around the city. Players invite close family members to play for an agreed period of time (for example a week or a couple of months). Throughout the game period, players create questions, each with three possible multiple choice answers, and place them on a map to be found by other players. When other players pass by the question locations on their everyday routes around the city, the questions pop up on the phones."

"Arkadium has survived for the past decade by making casual games for the web and Facebook. But with the arms race going in games, that approach may not cut it anymore. So the New York game publisher is announcing today that it has hired industry veteran Stephen Jarrett as its vice president of game design. ... The new hire goes with the strategy of moving up in games and making big investments in game platforms such as the upcoming Windows 8 operating system from Microsoft."

Merger between two companies developing "mobile devices into wireless controllers" for game use and other applications