Come See Kano/Apps at GottaCon 2014
GottaCon, Victoria’s premiere convention for all things geeky, is coming up quickly. GottaCon will be running from February 28 to March 2 at the Victoria Convention Centre (720 Douglas St.) and as a...
View ArticleKano/Apps at the Game Developers Conference 2014
Kano/Apps will be at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco from March 17 -21 this year! For those of you who are unfamiliar with GDC, it’s the world’s largest and longest-running...
View ArticleKano/Apps Art Attack: The Item Design Process
For our second round of Art Attack, our digital artists, Jose Brand and Amaris Fisher, are showing off the design work that goes into creating some of our items. Although our players only see the...
View ArticleKano/Apps is in the Running for the VIATeC Employer of the Year Award
Kano/Apps received word today that we’re in the running for the “Employer of the Year” award in the upcoming 2014 VIATeC Technology Awards Show.VIATeC, for those who don’t know, is an organization that...
View ArticleKano/Apps is VIATeC’s 2014 Employer of the Year!
The team poses with our “Freddie” statue.Early last month we found out that we were in the running for the Employer of the Year at the 2014 VIATeC Awards Show. Said show happened last Friday night and...
View ArticleNew Trailers for Viking Clan, Zombie Slayer, Pirate Clan and Mob Wars: La...
A good game deserves a good trailer which is why we asked our friends at Media One to create some for us! They did an excellent job of creating unique and enthralling trailers for our games, and we’re...
View ArticleDrawing from the Vikings’ lives and legends
A band of Kanolings journeyed to Victoria’s tourist-fraught region earlier this week. Their quest: to seek insight and wisdom on the lives of those hardy peoples known in legends as the...
View ArticleKANO/APPS 2014 Year in Review
As 2015 draws near, the KANO/APPS team was once again faced with the daunting question of, “What did we do this last year?”In the past, that question has lead us on a mad scramble to pull together a...
View ArticleHack Day Wrap Up
Last Friday marked the latest hack day for us here at KANO/APPS. This time our theme was Ship It! The idea is that we would have something finished enough to demo for the rest of the KANO/APPS team by...
View ArticleMob Wars: La Cosa Nostra Comes to iOS
You have been asking for better iPad and mobile compatibility and we have been listening. We are pleased to announce that Mob Wars: La Cosa Nostra has joined Pirate Clan in the iTunes App Store!Now...
View ArticleTim Teh at Casual Connect 2015
Our CEO and generally awesome guy, Tim Teh will be speaking August 11 as part of the 2015 Casual Connect USA conference. Tim will be participating in the Communication In Your Studio: How Do We Get...
View ArticleKANO/BALL
Last Friday we decided to kick off the long weekend by heading over to the local Rooftop Surfclub for some volleyball and hijinks.It was a roaring success as we managed to keep our ball on the roof...
View ArticleA Very KANO Halloween
We love Halloween here at KANO/APPS. Getting a little silly while flexing our nerdy and creative sides is pretty much heaven to us. Starting with sweet treats and ending with a spooky movie marathon,...
View ArticleThe World’s First Kano Baby
Making video games for a living is a pretty rewarding career in and of itself, but it’s an especially rewarding one when you’re making and maintaining them for the kind of dedicated players that have...
View ArticleMafia Wars Shutdown, Our Condolences to the Community
Seeing a game shut down is never fun and it’s a process that we’ve been through ourselves. The saddest part is that the community loses all the friends and rivals they have made. Building up a...
View ArticleA Brief History of Mob & Mafia Wars Games
First of all we’d like to give a big welcome to everyone who’s joined our game over the past week. We’re touched that so many of you have chosen Mob Wars: La Cosa Nostra as your new Mafia Wars...
View ArticleWhat’s cool about working at KANO/APPS?
Benefits! Team culture! People care! The team! Morning meet and greet! Swag! It’s been a month since I’ve started at Kano, one of Victoria’s longest-standing tech startups, and I wanted to the get the...
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