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Watcha Doin’? iOS mobile game app combines gaming with social networking

whatchyadoinglogoWatcha Doin’? is a mobile game app for iOS that allows a group of friends to share photos & guess who took each photo.

The photo guessing game app therefore helps you discover how well you know your friends, & also find out more about them. It’s obviously also an addictive multi-user mobile gaming experience. The way it works is pretty simple. You create games with a group of up to five people per game.

You can then write in a question, or the app will provide one. All the players send in a photo in response to the question, & everyone has to guess which friend took which photo.  The scores tell you which of your friends knows you best, & how well you know your friends.

The good thing about it is that it allows you to share personal information safely, since you’re among a group of known friends & family members.

The mobile gaming experience & novelty of combining social networking with an iOS game app apart, another reason this game is getting a lot of attention (featured by Apple as best new iOS game) is that Watcha Doin’? is the first app from Palo Alto, CA-based mobile gaming startup Xoo.

The strong pedigree of the Xoo founders & their experience makes it a slam-dunk, so to speak. XOO Inc. was founded in Jan 2014 by Glen Wong, Philip Yun, Steve Lawrence & Wilson Li.

Philip Yun is the company’s CEO, & formerly at Sony & as stints as CEO of Naver USA & Outspark. Glen Wong is Xoo’s director of Engineering, & has worked at Microsoft, Google, & Red Robot Labs.

Steve Lawrence is the company’s CTO, with a background in Ph.D. Machine Learning at Google. Wilson Li is the Product Lead at Xoo, & has previously worked at Outspark & WeMade.

Click here to download the Watcha Doin’? iOS mobile game app from the App Store.

Image Credit: iTunes/Xoo

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Now make a prototype of your design/product without knowing any code with Marvel

marvellogoMust say, things are getting easier on the Internet with every passing day. Check out this new app Marvel. What does it do? It converts any idea for your own app into a design that can be showcased like an app for presentation purposes. For that matter, you do not need to know any code or any other design skills, Marvel does it all for you.

That’s right. The Marvel app lets you turn any sketch into an app demo in minutes. All you need to do is draw on paper, then take a photo using Marvel to link them together to form your prototype.

This new app can be quite an asset for aspiring entrepreneurs, designers, product managers, startups, students & businesses that need to quickly prototype ideas to share with clients and teams.

Here’s how to do it:

– Draw your app screens on paper, whiteboards (or napkins!) then take photos of each screen using the app.

– Once you’re happy you can link each screen together using touch areas to form your app demo

– You can share prototypes using Email, SMS or Twitter.

– Everything is synced with Dropbox and pushed to your Marvel Web account with is automatically set-up for you at www.marvelapp.com

 

The new app, available on Android & iOS, also allows team collaboration. Which means any member of your startup team, for example, can add or delete to the original design/concept.

There are at present 2 plans to use Marvel – free & paid (US $ 6.40 per user per month). The latter comes parcelled with extra muscle like creating & joining unlimited teams with other Pro users & extra layer of security.

You may click here to download Marvel on your Android device.

You may click here to download Marvel on your iOS device.

 

 

Image Credit: Marvel

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