Good news everyone!

Karios Games, my personal-project-to-become-a-company-very-soon is accelerating its growth. I’ve recently pitched in front of a jury and will be receiving my first “kick” from Venture Kick in Switzerland. Venture Kick is a non profit organization that helps young entrepreneurs get off the ground in Switzerland. All one needs is a good idea and some pitching skills (and some luck I guess). I have had more than a good idea, since I’ve launched a lot of games as you know already in 5 different platforms (facebook, chrome store, windows phone, ios and windows 8) and I got lucky, since I was chosen to receive the first “kick”, namely a small grant from the organization.

Things are starting to pick up from there and I will be doing my best to organize Karios Games into an awesome games making machine, like I always wanted it to be. I will not be hiring just yet, but since I am working on it full time now, I expect to be doing that also soon.

As always, there are a few games in the pipeline already, small and bigger projects, and I will be announcing new stuff when the time is right. Until then, patience!

Both MonsterUp and MonsterUp Adventures have recently received updates that allow Windows Phone 8 users to use the built-in wallet function to buy stuff in the games.

More specifically, in MonsterUp Adventures, you can now buy diamonds and rubies from the island store as well as buy all the levels of the island at once. The gems are of course used to unlock other things in the store, like new monsters and the game’s ringtone while the island levels are unlocked permanently.

In the original MonsterUp, you can buy all the available monsters at once.

Enjoy!

To celebrate the release of MonsterUp for iOS devices, I decided to dedicate a website only to MonsterUp branded games. I have 3 games already using the MonsterUp brand, the original MonsterUp, its sequel MonsterUp Adventures and a kids’ memory matching games called MonsterUp Memory. Since I plan to use the brand on future games as well, a dedicated simple website for all things MonsterUp seemed like a good idea. So I bought the domain monsterupgame.com, installed wordpress and presto – I had a website in about 4 hours :)

It has most of the things I wanted to have, like reviews and screenshots showing on devices’ pictures. I had to hack the template a bit to support multiple platforms, since it was originally supporting only iPhone apps, but I think it works the way I want it to work now.

So, take a look and tell me if you like it :)

www.monsterupgame.com