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Hey Guys, best.news.ever

Casey Games are extremely proud, extremely  honoured and extremely grateful to announce that we have been invited by the Irish International Business Network to speak as the only speaker at a special event being held in Apple's Retail Store in Soho, New York City.

We are so grateful to the IIBN for inviting us to this event which they are organising and we see this as a perfect opportunity to officially launch the iOS version of our latest mobile game, My Little World.

So, hopefully you guys will be able to play the game on July 31st, we plan to release the other versions for other platforms in time for October.The game will cost 89c/79p/ (Tier 1).What to expect? The First chapter of the game, a shop and a level editor!

To tie in with all this we are launching a level design competition, the winners of which will have their levels featured in the second update.

Once again we would like to thank the IIBN and Apple for this amazing opportunity!

Talk soon and I will keep you guys updated

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Updates!

Hey guys, Jordan here.Haven't updated in a WHILE! So, today I thought I might do it.

• In Early April I spoke at a College conference in Portsmouth, England.
• In Mid April we won the Best Innovation Award in the Junior Category at the Student Enterprise Awards in Croke Park - I was completely thrilled!
• I spoke at both the Festival of Games and TNW Conference in Amsterdam in Late April.Both amazing conferences and I made AMAZING contacts! You can check out an awesome interview I did with NOS 3:

• And Last Week I had the absolutely amazing opportunity to face the Dragons on Junior Dragons Den! I was on last and I got the €2,000 bursary from Peter Casey, which I am so grateful for.Every single project on the show was outstanding and Everyone in my opinion was a winner.Not only did I get the bursary, but I also got a HUGE amount of exposure! I met a number of different contacts, sold a ton of copies, Received 500 Twitter mentions in the space of 10 minutes & made 330 followers within a day, which is amazing! Also, for about 20 minutes, I was the #1 Trending Topic in Ireland:

Next week is a pretty huge week for me for 2 reasons:

1. I have Summer Exams that week which should be fun :)
2. I am going to Silicon Valley! I will be speaking at the TiEcon event next Saturday in the heart of the county! I am HUGELY excited and I have a lot of other things planned while I'm there.It is amazing opportunity and I couldn't get there without the support of the City Council, Enterprise Ireland and The City Enterprise board! 

Update on My Little World and Projects

So, My Little World, how is that going? I know I haven't gave you an update for a while.First things first, I am delaying the release until October, again to give me more time to work on the game, I plan to launch it at an event.

So how is the game development going?

Well for the past month or so, I've really been working on back end stuff.Such as: A Save and Load System, A Pause Menu, Main Menu upgrades, animation, I've developed a collision system.

So, I've taken a break from the game for the next couple of days to focus on exam studying without the worry of the game.But, what I have been doing in other development is:

• Thought Jotter: A Note Application for iOS and Android which I plan to work on over the Summer.It is the basic germ for a Social Network I'm building
• A web browser series codenamed "C-Browse" The motto is: "Straight to the Point... and Click" It means it doesn't distract you from anything other than web browsing, it saves all your passwords and cookies, etc. I have a Windows pre pre Alpha test written in C# and I plan to write the Mobile & Mac Versions in Flash.I will update you on this

So, what's the one game I've been working on that hasn't had an update in a while? That's right... Food World! 

Well, as you may know we launched the Food World Feedback Test in Early January and I said Feedback was very positive.We took all of your advice and we are currently very close to Full launch.This will include:

• A revamped website
• A hugely revamped, bigger game
• A Food World Animated Series
• A registration system

We are hugely excited to launch Food World soon and we think it can go places! We currently can't work on it a lot at the moment as Aidan (Our Artist) is doing his GCSEs and I have my Summer Exams.We will keep you very informed on future Food World updates.

Well guys, that's it for now, I will keep you updated as much as I can!

Thanks Again guys!

-Jordan

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Student Enterprise Awards

Hi guys, Jordan here.Just a quick update.Just thought I'd tell you we got Best Innovation at the Student Enterprise Awards on Wednesday in Croke Park!

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King Of The Web: Second chance

Hey guys, Jordan here.Back with a very quick request.

"I'm running a second campaign for King of The Web (Last year I was too young) King of the web is an election based thingy ma do hickey where you vote a person to be the king of the web.If you register you get 10 votes per day (Divided or on person of your choice), so if you want to vote me you can vote for me 10 times per day.The top prize for King of The Web is 1,000 second place is 500 and third place is 250 dollars.Either way, if I win one of these I have officially pledged to donate 50% of all my earnings to Water.org! It would mean so much if you could take a minute to vote, all you have to do is CLICK HERE! Thanks so much guys!

-Jordan!!

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CGN: Casey Games Network

Hey guys, Jordan here.Back with a unique new announcement... We've launched a new YouTube video network! We call it CGN.CGN is a very unique network in that unlike most other network it covers range of different topics, such as: gaming, tech reviews, unboxings, short films, parodies and much more! And the best part, a video every day! So, our first video is available now

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE CHANNEL!

And, if you make content rather than watch it, we now accept applications to APPLY as a content producer on our channel!

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT!

Well guys, thank you guys and I hope you enjoy our videos, if you do please subscribe!

-Jordan

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A bit more information on My Little World

Hey guys, Jordan here.

So, a couple of weeks ago I officially announced my latest game, My Little World.I also told you I couldn't really say much about it on account that I was going to be first showing it off at GIG 2013, which I did.

Since GIG, I have been working very very very hard to get as of the game done as possible, for a reason that unfortunately, I can't say much about yet.What I can say is, I've been giving the opportunity of a lifetime which regards My Little World and something huge! But, I have to have a version of the game done for March 31st.I hope this version of the game done for the Easter Holidays.But, for those of you wondering when the game will be released on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows 8, I can now reveal: June 15th 2013 for iOS, Android and Mac if all goes to plan (And possibly a bit earlier) and then a month or two later for Windows as I have to completely rebuild the game for it 

Reason: I write my games using Actionscript 3.0, which iOS, Android and Mac support.Unfortunately, Windows 8 does not.But, it's not all bad, as I can convert the Flash version of the game to HTML5 and add the functionality and then wrap it as a Windows 8 app.

Pricing:

iOS - 89c & free lite version

Android - Free (With advertisements)

Mac - €2.49

Windows 8 - around the €2.49 price point.

Extras:

by July, I am trying to get an e-book version of the My Little World story on the iBooks store.It will be free! This is to encourage our players to not only play, but read the story too.This is also because I think the My Little World story could be very interesting.

For the press:

We will also be releasing a Press Release for people who are interested in featuring the game.For people who are interested in reviewing the game, we will release test copies about a week before release.(P.S We will also be giving away iOS copies on Twitter when it's released)

I know we've still got some time to go, but I'm very very excited.I will obviously update you guys on the development of the game!

Thanks guys

-Jordan

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Working with a deadline

Hey guys, Jordan here.Im starting a new daily dev-log post over at http://JordanCasey.com I will be posting progress updates and screenshots of my little world

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