Dev Box Interview: The Jackie Button’s Creator Jackie “The Joke Man” Marling

Normally in our Dev Box interviews we profile someone that worked on the development of a game, but this week we are making a departure from that on all fronts. This week we are going to feature one of the creative minds behind an iPhone App – “The Jackie Button.” While it isn’t exactly a game, it had to go through a very similar creative and production process at Bolt Creative (”Pocket God”) as most video games, and Jackie “The Joke Man” Marling was the driving creative force behind the App. You may know best for his work on The Howard Stern Show, but he published a number of books, and cds. We tweaked our standard Dev Box questions to try to get inside the head of one of the best known comics around. Find out what he had to say about his career and “The Jackie Button.” [Continue Reading]

Dev Box Interview: Bolt Creative’s Founder Dave Castelnuovo

It usually takes a small army to create the video games that we play, and, most of the time, all of the focus gets put on the game itself, and not on the people that came together to make it. Our Dev Box interview series takes a look at some of the unsung heroes that have committed their lives to entertaining all of us. This week we are letting Bolt Creative’s Founder Dave Castelnuovo take a break from working on iPhone Apps “Pocket God” and his latest creation “The Jackie Button” and give him a chance to get on the Dev Box and tell us a bit about himself, and what he thinks about the games industry. [Continue Reading]