Wednesday, September 21, 2011

E-commerce got Game



The game isn't complex. You fling the hapless birds at an angle from a catapult, a slingshot topple the enemy base which is manned by fat little green pigs. Would you say brilliant?

"With a combined 350 million downloads across all platforms and including both regular and special editions, the game, someone wrote on wikipedia, has been called 'one of the most mainstream games out right now.'"

We now dread to look out the window to see what mainstream has become. But, soft! Someone else has also written, and the wiki writer quotes, that it is "the largest mobile app success the world has seen so far." That's it, we're no longer venturing out of the house.

Who's to say then that Angry Birds-yes, that's the name-is not brilliant. Pocket Gamer's Keith Andrew has said Angry Birds is "a nugget of puzzling purity dished out with relish aplenty."

There's blurbs aplenty, too, on the maker's e-commerce site, rovio.com. "Challenging physics-based castle demolition." Well, you can lob the little guy, or send him out on a flat spin, and he lands in an explosion (get it?) of plucked feathers. "Each of the 120 levels requires logic, skill, and brute force to crush the enemy." I can tell you now, people, Warcraft this is not.

You wonder what the maker's mindset was when he designed the game. Hhmmm, rockets and cannon balls are so last century. We must try something new. Oh oh I know! We can use birds! We can use them to hit stone buildings! (Pause) And then, we will rake in $70 million, bird by bird, a dollar here, a dollar there.

And that's doing it the hard way in the fabulous storied age of e-commerce. Angry Birds reportedly cost rovio.com $147,000 to make. David Cole of DFC Intelligence says those "simple games that become big hits are definitely the most profitable in the industry."

But Cole adds, "Tetris is probably the biggest hit-it cost essentially zero to develop and continues to make money after 20+ years."

Yeah. We would be angry, too.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Why Do You Need Mold Removal?



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The obvious answer would be that you need mold removal because of the fact that you want to remove mold but there are many things that we need to consider. Some believe that mold is harmless and that it can easily be removed. However, any good mold removal Atlanta company will immediately tell you that you might think that the mold was removed but it was not. A lot of people make this mistake and they end up constantly removing mold when another approach would have worked a lot better.

Mold is definitely an addition that is unsightly when looking at any room in the house. Most will want to remove it because of this fact while not realizing that it is also quite a high health risk that you expose yourself to. It is crucial that you will properly remove the mold because of the negative impact that it will have on the health of both you and your family. There are bacteria and fungi that causes mold to appear and we have to make sure that the causes are eliminated and not just remove the mold. If the only thing that we remove is the mold and not the bacteria and fungi, then we are still faced with serious health problems that we will regret in the future.

The bottom line is that you need mold removal Atlanta because of the negative impact it can have on your health and not because of how it looks. A lot of people do not understand this and they will even postpone the operation until they think it has to be done. The correct approach would be to call a specialist as soon as mold is discovered. You have to get rid of the cause and not just of what you see on the wall. If you do not do this mold will constantly appear.
 

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