That’s what drew Abylight Studios to the Apple Watch.Ĭreative director “Miguel (Corchero), and I walked by an Apple Store and decided to buy a couple of Apple Watches to tinker with them,” said Eva Gaspar, the CEO of the studio. “While Apple Watch’s main function isn’t gaming (and probably never will be), it is a great device for experimentation and creativity.” “WatchOS 6 is a very big release for us,” the two said in an email. Now watch owners can use their watches to find native apps for the device.Ĭeline Pecheur and Dimitri Darsch, cofounders of Seele Games, both have high hopes for the store and the impact it could have on the watch app ecosystem. While Apple released the Apple Watch’s capability to run native apps in 2016, perhaps the most significant update to hit the Apple Watch since its release is WatchOS 6, which in September finally brought the App Store to the Apple Watch. Luton also noted he hasn’t really stayed up to speed on the updates to the watch. “People either don’t know how or care how to put apps on their watch. “I don’t think the paradigm of apps on the Apple Watch has ever taken off,” he said. It also left Luton with a lasting impression that the Apple Watch is not a good place for app developers.
The download numbers were so bad it torpedoed the two’s efforts are raising venture capital money and essentially killed the studio. They invited us in to have early access to the first-gen watch in Cupertino, and we launched Cupcake Dungeon (an idle clicker) on day one.”Ĭupcake Dungeon launched on day one of the Apple Watch and was featured on the Apple Watch App Store - then a part of the iPhone’s App Store. When Apple announced the Apple Watch, we shifted our attention there. “We were totally convinced that we understood what a game on a watch would play like and that they could be fun. “At one point, we calculated Pixel Miner being installed on 1-in-10 Pebble watches,” Luton said.
Soon it became the most “loved” game on the Pebble Watch and fourth-most loved app overall. The game was watch take on an idle clicker game - a title that essentially played itself with little input. The two created Pixel Miner on a budget of $5,000. He and Paul Virapen set up a studio called WearGa, initially to create something for the Pebble smartwatch. Will Luton was one of those early developers.
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