Here is a quick recap of new posts for weeks ending July 25th and August 1st on the Amazon Apps & Services Blog.
Tuesday, July 22nd |
Intro to Phaser Part 2: Preloading, Sprites Displaying Text and Game State We published the next part in a free tutorial on creating a casual game with Phaser, a popular HTML5 game framework. Publish Your App to Amazon’s New Fire Phone We announced Amazon Appstore selection has nearly tripled over the past year, and since Fire phone launched, the rate of app submissions to the Amazon Appstore has more than doubled. |
Wednesday, July 23rd |
Intro to Phaser Part 3: Obstacles, Collision, Score, Sound and Publishing We published the final part in a free tutorial on creating a casual game with Phaser, a popular HTML5 game framework. |
Friday, July 25th |
Fire Now Available at AT&T and Amazon We announced Fire, Amazon’s first smartphone, is now available at AT&T stores throughout the US and online. |
Tuesday, July 29th
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Amazon Hosts Developer Day at GDC Europe – August 12th, 2014 We announced a free Amazon Developer Day on Tuesday, August 12th at GDC Europe. If you are attending the conference stop by and join the Amazon team to learn how you can build, optimize and monetize your games for Amazon’s Fire devices. |
Wednesday, July 30th
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Adding Dynamic Perspective to Your HTML5 Games Tutorial We walked through the process of adding Fire phone Dynamic Perspective to a Phaser based HTML5 game. |
Thursday, July 31st
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Amazon Appstore Expands to 41 New Countries and Territories, including Egypt, Indonesia, Singapore and Turkey We announced expansion into 41 additional international locations, making the Amazon Appstore’s global presence now 236 countries and territories. |
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