A game that puts you in the role of an aid worker directs all in-game purchases to Save the Children, the charity Sally Field (and Sally Struthers) made famous.
I recently spoke with Acid Nerve lead designer Mark Foster, about how only giving your bosses (and the player) one hit point to survive with affected the design of the recent indie action release Titan Souls.
Dynamic pricing technology company Gondola launches Liftpass, an open-source platform for in-app goods pricing, today as a beta release. It lets game developers manage and track the pricing of virtual goods on their own servers, with SDKs for iOS, Android, and Unity, all free of charge.