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Networking Over the Holidays: Kano Apps in The Globe and Mail

Posted by grady.mitchell December 10, 2012

With friends, family and a well-deserved break from work, Christmas is one of the best times of the year. But it can also mean running a gauntlet of professional events and office parties. While sipping eggnog might not be the best moment for the hard sell, the holidays are a great opportunity to meet new people and foster connections in a more relaxed environment. The Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s largest national newspapers, contacted our CEO Tim to ask him about tips, tricks and strategies for networking during the holiday season.

Check out Tim’s advice here.

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Kano Apps Movember Challenge

Posted by grady.mitchell November 6, 2012

Autumn it may be, but the moustaches blooming on the upper lips of certain Kano team members can only be described as august. That’s correct, it’s the most glorious time of the year: Movember.

This year we’ve launched the KANO/APPS Movember Challenge. Those willing to offer their lip as a moustache cultivation platform have been entered into a betting pool. Bidders choose a candidate, stake some cash and select the style of moustache (complete with reference images like this and, lord help us, this). Candidates then get to growing. If they crack under the pressure and shave before December 1, they pay. If they complete the moustache marathon, the bidder does. Regardless of what happens, everybody wins: every dollar benefits prostate cancer research, and for a month we get to ridicule our coworkers.

Last year 854,000 moustachioed man-princes helped raise over $125 million. Everyone at Kano is proud to help make this year even bigger.

For more information about Movember, visit their site.

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Zombie Slayer Now On Kongregate!

Posted by grady.mitchell November 5, 2012

KANO/APPS is proud to announce that we’ve now brought our popular free-to-play social game Zombie Slayer to the Kongregate platform!

Protect your brain! Brain-craved zombies control the world, and in this epic zombie RPG you’re a walking 12 oz. steak! Use a powerful arsenal to bash, blast and splatter global outbreaks and battle super zombie bosses. Unite with other slayers to form elite Slayer squads and Factions, then wage war against thousands of other players!

Here are just a couple of Zombie Slayer’s killer features:

-Slay undead in over 25 worldwide locations!

-Battle dozens of super zombie Bosses!

-Level up, choose your skills and customize your Slayer, Play with friends, join Factions and battle thousands of other Slayers!

-Craft your own weapons and equipment!

-Rank on global and social Leaderboards across multiple categories!

-New content weekly!

Only you can take back the earth, one exploding zombie head at a time. Arm up, load out and get slaying!

Play now and please rate us 5-stars at http://bit.ly/kongzombies

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Kano Hack 2 Begins

Posted by grady.mitchell August 24, 2012

We’re off and hacking! Kano’s second game jame has officially begun, and our teams are wasting no time. Ideas are flying, keyboards are clacking, and the concepts are rolling out. Can’t wait to see what we have at the end of the day. Keep posted here, on our Facebook page and on Twitter for more updates!

Mel, Charlie and Dan brainstorm.

Ash models the Hack 2 shirts he designed.

Ash gets excited to hack.

Ed keeping his vision focused.

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Loren Stewart, VIATeC’s Employee of the Year

Posted by grady.mitchell June 1, 2012

We’re proud to announce that KANO/APPS Lead Developer Loren Stewart took home Employee of the Year at the 2012 VIATeC Awards last night. Just being counted among the talented list of nominees was humbling enough, winning was truly incredible. We’d like to thank all the other nominees, Dan Gunn and all the hardworking folks at VIATeC, everyone who came out last night, and of course unending thanks to Loren for his years of drive, dedication and inspiration.

Last night was a blast. Gather a roomful of the innovators reinventing Victoria’s business landscape and throw in some lightsabers, and you’re bound to have a good time. The night culminated with a massive lightsaber brawl (Jedi versus Sith) complete with flying battle orcas. We apologize to the glassware at the Victoria Conference Center. Check out some photos of the event below.

Employee of the Year Loren fighting for his life.

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VIATeC Awards 2012, Tomorrow Night!

Posted by grady.mitchell May 30, 2012

We can’t wait for the 2012 VIATeC Awards going down tomorrow night. We’re up for Employer of the Year, Team of the Year, Employee of the Year and Online Strategy of the Year, humbly trying our best against an impressive list of nominees. Everyone here at Kano is looking forward to a night of brilliant minds, great connections and inspiring stories. One of our guys was so excited about this year’s Star Wars theme that he rushed out and got it tattooed across his knuckles!

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VIATeC Awards 2012 Finalists

Posted by grady.mitchell April 30, 2012

We’re so excited to announce that KANO/APPS is a finalist for four VIATeC 2012 Awards! We’re up for Employer of the Year, Online Strategy of the Year, our creative squadron is in the running for Team of the Year, and Lead Developer Loren Stewart is gunning for Employee of the Year. We’re up against technology masterminds like Atomic Crayon, Neverblue, YUPIQ, Race Rocks Digital, Smart Dolphins IT and an army of other equally tough competitors. Check out a full list of the 2012 VIATeC Awards finalists here.

We’re honoured just to be counted among the calibre of talent on that list. We truly believe Victoria is one of the best places to live and work on earth, that it houses some of the sharpest minds, and that it will have huge ripples in the international technology industry. Getting recognized by our peers means the world to us. Thank you!

The Awards go down May 31. We hope to see all of you there!

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Child’s Play Charity: Gamers Giving Back

Posted by grady.mitchell April 25, 2012

Child’s Play is a charity organization based out of Seattle, and one that KANO/APPS is proud to support. Child’s Play works with heavy hitters in the gaming and tech industries–companies like Nintendo, Google, Warner Brothers, PopCap and, of course, KANO/APPS–to help lighten the burdens on hospitalized children by providing medical centers with consoles, games and toys. They started in 2003 by raising $250,000 for the Seattle Children’s Hospital. Since then they’ve raised almost $10 million and provided the tools for fun to 70 hospitals worldwide, raising $3.5 million in 2011 alone.

Take a few minutes to explore their website, read some of the dozens of personal testimonials from nurses, doctors and families, and learn a little more about the incredible work Child’s Play does everyday. You can even view an individual hospital’s wish list and send them exactly the gift they’ve requested. KANO/APPS is proud to support such a generous, forward-thinking non-profit organization, and we hope you will too.

Click here to donate.

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KANO/APPS Hack Day Wrap-up

Posted by grady.mitchell April 19, 2012

The first KANO/APPS Hack Day is complete, and what a success! Our teams dreamed up some incredible ideas, experimented with some exciting new technology, including HTML5, and put together some impressive prototypes under heavy pressure, and had a blast doing it. On Monday we shared our projects and doled out prizes. Our projects spanned the entire spectrum of social gaming: from strategy board games to sci-fi shoot-em-ups, games for platforms like Android, web browsers and iOS. A lot of our ideas have legs, and we’re excited to keep the momentum going and see where they take us. For even more photos from KANO/APPS Hack: One, click Read More!

Ed, Tim and Eric brainstorm.

Pat is always thinking.

Pat, Damon and Dan hash out ideas.

KANO/APPS Hack: One

Posted by grady.mitchell April 13, 2012

KANO’s first Hack Day is underway. We’ve split into our teams and are working furiously on our projects. Some people are putting pen to paper, some scissors to cardboard, and some fingertips to keyboards. Whichever way they go about it, every project is bound to be exciting. Here are a few photos to get you started. We’ll post live updates to our Facebook and Twitter pages throughout the day, as well as on Instagram (just follow @kanoapps), so keep checking in!

Ready, set, hack!

Lead Concept Artist Jose takes naturally to hacking. He doesn't even have to look.

Team Lead Olive listens attentively.

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Networking Over the Holidays: Kano Apps in The Globe and Mail

Kano Apps Movember Challenge

Loren Stewart, VIATeC’s Employee of the Year

VIATeC Awards 2012 Finalists

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