The name of your game is going to be the single most important decision you make. The most basic thing you can do to help your game be more successful is to simply give it a descriptive name.

Is summer keeping you too busy to stay up-to-date with our tutorials, articles, and announcements? Never fear - the week in review blog is here!

At the end of May, we presented the webinar Promote Organic Growth - Build App Store Pages and Promo Videos that Convert. If you missed the presentation or want to revisit some of the suggestions on how to create effective app promotions, the webcast is now available for you to watch.

It’s easy to get bogged down in the details and forget the most valuable part of making a game, which is building something fun to play. Here, I will talk about some approaches to adding artwork and sounds into your game.

A soft launch is a valuable way to see how well your game performs before launching it for wider distribution. It allows you to isolate and optimize successful factors and problem areas strategically. Our friends at deltaDNA share their top tips for ensuring your soft launch is a resounding success.

Is summer keeping you too busy to stay up-to-date with our tutorials, articles, and announcements? Never fear - the week in review blog is here!

A recent study showed that almost a quarter of users only use a mobile app once, and 95% abandon an app within the first month. Testing ensures that your mobile app has been stressed on as many devices as possible , which enables you to identify and fix bugs early.

Do you want to add in-app purchasing (IAP) or subscriptions to your apps but don’t know where to start? Join me on Friday, July 28^th, to learn how to integrate these monetization features into your apps and games.

This May, I was in Austin, Texas for O'Reilly's OSCON, one of the nation's premiere open source conferences. My talk, "Can You Roll Your Own Virtual Assistant," is now available on YouTube.

Is summer keeping you too busy to stay up-to-date with our tutorials, articles, and announcements? Never fear - the week in review blog is here!

If you're developing an app, you can speed up your development by using frameworks. Frameworks allow you to work with existing code libraries, so you don’t have to create these libraries yourself.

The Fire TV home screen now features a new row called “Recommended By Your Apps.” This row shows content recommendations from your app, promoting deeper engagement and loyalty for your apps by showcasing your content to users who have an active interest in your material.

Here's what you missed last week on the Amazon Appstore Developer Blog.

You have a game idea and want to start building right away. But making a game is more than just having a good idea and the skill to code it. The first step is to create a game design document (GDD) to solidify your ideas.

Starting today, customers in the US will begin to receive the new Element Electronics 4K Ultra HD Smart TV – Amazon Fire TV Edition, available for order on Amazon.com, starting at $449.99.