LeftRight Studios

A Big Thank You to All smackBots Fans!

Geraldine — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:22:50 +0000

A big thank you to all our smackBots fans…yes… to all you 200,000 (and counting) iPhone or iPod Touch users out there! For us as indie developers, it makes our day just to know that you like what we are creating. This is what keeps our creative juices going to wake up in the morning and pull late nights!

“Rock’em Sock’em” in the Office

Geraldine — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:43:54 +0000

Moments of work and fun at the office…

smackBOTS is iPad’ed.

Khang — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:45:17 +0000

So last week, Apple unleashed their latest creation onto all citizens of cyberworld – the iPad. LeftRight Studios is proud to announce that smackBOTS, our top 100 app for the iPhone, is officially iPad’ed!

smackBots Rockin’ the iPhone App Store – Pittsburgh Business Times

Geraldine — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:56:48 +0000

The founders of Pittsburgh-based LeftRight Studios, a mobile game developer, are celebrating the quick, but not altogether unexpected, success of their iPhone game smackBOTS…Based on the classic game Rock’em Sock’em Robots, smackBOTS takes the robot boxing ring digital. The game was released over the summer, around the time the small studio started, and now sits in the No. 92 spot for top free application downloads. It is No. 42 on the top free games list, No. 16 among top free action games and No. 2 among top free kids games. According to Apple, the App Store has 100,000 applications available.

LeftRight Studios on Pittsburgh Business Times!

Khang — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:58:30 +0000

In the AlphaLab offices on East Carson Street, there is something infectious in the air — optimism. Geraldine Yong, CEO of LeftRight Studios, says starting a tech company during a recession is tough, but has its upside, too. – Pittsburgh Business Times

Notable iPhone Game for Thanksgiving Day – KatchUp!

Khang — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:57:27 +0000

KatchUp – Notable iPhone game releases for 11/27/09 – The Examiner

Apple CoFounder Woz Wows San Francisco with a Good Round of “smackBotting”

Khang — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:08:28 +0000

At the Apple WWDC 2009, our very own Director of Business Development (now CEO) Geraldine was spotted “smackbotting” with Steve Wozniak, Apple cofounder and Dancing with the Stars Celebrity Dancer. This interesting photo was coincidentally captured by NBC News Photographer Jeremy Carroll! A picture speaks a million words…check out the article for yourself!

LeftRight @ the WWDC iPhone Launch Party

Geraldine — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:14:37 +0000

We had a great time at the Launch Party on Wednesday night. It was great to see all the familiar faces from previous parties throughout the week, not to mention all the new faces we met. Of course we brought our trusty Rock’em Sock’em, and played plenty of rounds with party attendees. Of course smackBOTS also go it’s fair share of play. Probably the most famous person to touch smackBOTS since its release, Steve Wozniak cofounder of Apple got to play a couple rounds of both and loved our t-shirts!

(Left to Right: Khang, Steve, Geraldine)

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to play smackBots and Rock’em Sock’em!

LeftRight Studios in the News! CBS 5 San Francisco

Geraldine — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:49:38 +0000

So here you go, the video recorded LIVE off the TV set in our hotel room at 6.30pm PST June 8th 2009. Sue Kwon, thanks for the interview and picking LeftRight Studios out of the sea of iPhone developers at WWDC.

Here is the article on CBS5’s website: Entrepreneurs Cash In on iPhone App Success

LeftRight Crashes WWDC 2009

Geraldine — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:16:09 +0000

So with Sunday being so successful, we were hoping for a repeat on Monday. We showed up to the Moscone Convention Center at 9:30am, and the line had already formed way down the sidewalk. Not having tickets, there was no point in standing in line. So we walked up to the front in hopes of talking to people waiting in line, and show off smackBOTS.

The crazy cats over at iPorn also decided to crash WWDC! With us standing at the front of the line holding a bright yellow based Rock’em Sock’em Robots, we caught their attention! If you can’t beat’em, Join’em! So Derek got to play a game of Rock’em Sock’em with scantily clad individual, followed by a very revealing serious of questions, and a “photo opp”…which coincidentally got photographed by a reporter and published on The Huffington Post! Yes you heard it right!

After that scene, and boy was it a scene (!) we headed into the lobby of the convention center. Inside we started talking to people standing around, most had entered the keynote.

Then the UNEXPECTED came! We got an interview with CBS ch5 San Francisco! Which went great, they loved the fact that we were a couple of guys who got laid off and jumped right into running our own business. See next blog entry for CBS 5 TV interview video.

CBS 5 Sue Kwon Interviewing LeftRight Team

After that the keynote was over, and we got to play some Rock’em Sock’em with some cool developers, and got another great response. Until security threw us out! So we successfully crashed WWDC, and the best part was we got interviewed by CBS 5 News…. now onto the parties!