Drink Deck Chicago Brings Bar Specials to the Windy City
"Just because New Year’s is over doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy an adult beverage every now and again, and the denizens of Chicago now have a delightful new app that provides a fun way to get soused. Drink Deck Chicago provides a deck of 52 “playing cards,” each of which corresponds to a bar in the city with persistent drink specials. Suddenly your night out just got a lot more fun, and you may just end your evening with enough cash left over to pay for those bogus hangover pills (or at least a strong cup of coffee)."
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Content is king as online shoppers look to buy from trusted sources
"While the Web has helped launch countless businesses, Ory and others expect the continued growth of mobile phones to create new opportunities in apps. More than a third of all mobile subscribers downloaded apps in October, up 2.3 percentage points from July, according to data from ComScore's MobiLens service."
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7th Heaven: A Mobile App To Build Religious Understanding
"This mobile app “7th Heaven” which has been termed as a gaming app as well brings this message to all the people at this festive season. App House, a renowned mobile app developer community, has come up with this quiz-based mobile app at the AppStore. You can ask questions about these religions, you can track the similarities among them who ever you are whatever religion you follow, I am sure you will find some interesting knowledge about all these religions."
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Chicago Top 30 in Tech 2010
"Chicago Booth graduates Jeb Ory, Kilton Hopkins and “WC” Bill Hope have built a publishing house for mobile applications that continues to put out winners. Their game “Simon Graham” broke the iPad Top 200 list, and they just released the fun, mobile version of The Drink Deck for iPhone. And according to CEO Jeb Ory, it “allows Appreneurs to produce an app and get it marketed to the world successfully.” With a business model that is "microfinanced" for each project, they have found a successful way to carve out a profitable market in the application space for themselves. When asked what their next product launch will be in 2011, Mr. Ory says, “We are going to change the way people manage their productivity.”"
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Revz and Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece
"Over the last couple of months I have been app-deep in iPhone 4 reviews. From productivity and lifestyle to utilities and social, I’ve been using a lot of apps. After taking a look at my folders of apps, I noticed that I’m missing the fun ones. Games! Recently I had a chance to break away from those lists and try out a few games. The App House is a Chicago-based mobile development company and the creators of the two gaming apps I added to my arsenal: Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece and Revz."
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Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece Review and $10 iTunes Giveaway
"My favorite type of game to play is puzzle games, so I was really excited to try out the app Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece Book 1."
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iPhone game of the day: Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece, Book I
"Like the crib notes version of Hamlet, Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece, Book I does its best to duplicate Nintendo’s masterful Professor Layton puzzle games, hitting the major points but writing some bits in shorthand for simplicity’s sake. It pulls it off admirably, too – replicating virtually everything except Layton’s unique, quaint-but-off-kilter personality."
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Professor Layton style puzzler Simon Graham now on iPhone
"Move over, Professor Layton - there's a new detective in town, and he's puzzling it out on iPhone. Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece is like a cross between the good old Prof and the child detective duo Whiz Kids."
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Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece Book 1 HD for iPad Review
"Simon Graham and the Extraordinary Timepiece is another addition to the brain heavy puzzle genre that has recently exploded in the app store. These puzzle centered games focus on challenge after challenge, with splashes of story in between to bring it all together. Simon Graham follows this formula to the letter, and comes out being an enjoyable addition to the genre."
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Waiting for Layton: More Puzzle Games to Tide You Over
"Simon Graham does deserve props for one thing: Unlike its competitors, it actually acknowledges the wizards, like Sam Loyd and Henry Dudeney, who came up with these puzzles in the first place. Perhaps those guys would be delighted to see their work repurposed for electronic play. If you grew up devouring puzzle books, you’ll recognize almost every chestnut found in these games"
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Independent developers see opportunity in Mac App Store
"SmallBusinessChicago asked Jeb Ory, chief executive of The App House, a Chicago-based mobile software application development firm, to share his thoughts about prospects for Mac apps. The following is based on an email interview..."
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Flyover Geeks: Two local app developers take different paths to success
"The App House was founded by University of Chicago Booth School of Business students Jeb Ory and Kilton Hopkins in 2009 and has been innovating fast. Developer Mr. Hopkins said of Mr. Ory, “In my first day of a statistics class at Booth, Jeb raised his hand and started asking some really good questions. My criteria for starting a business with someone was to find someone bold and smart enough to ask the right questions, so we got along pretty quickly.”"
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