Appsomniacs Company

## About Appsomniacs

Located in the Pacific Northwest, Appsomniacs was born out of a collaborative effort between a few friends who are passionate about making and enjoying games. We frequently work into the darkest hours of the night and/or the wee hours of early morning. Insomnia coupled with a desire to create games we want to play is a major contributor to Appsomniacs productions. We love sharing what we do and always appreciate constructive feedback. If you have something to share about our games or ideas for improvements please feel free to contact us.

## Q: What happened with Appsomniacs and Miniclip?

Information hosted on Appsomniacs' website:

* What happened to Mini Militia?
* What changed?
* What is Mini Militia Classic? How is it different?
* What are the differences between the apps?
* What is the plan for Mini Militia Classic going forward?

## Q: When is the next MMC update and what is the roadmap?

A: All information about app updates and planning for the next release is posted to the Alpha Force Google group. Please read the latest posts for the current status.

Our roadmap lists all the major tasks that need to be completed prior to the app being fully released to the public in the Google Play store. We try to keep the roadmap updated after every major release. View the latest file and an archive of past files here.

## Q: Who is the creator of Doodle Army and Mini Militia?

A: A history lesson in the DA/DA2/MMC Creation:

In the beginning, Chad Towns was the originator of the stick shooter Doodle Army (DA1 launched right after the new year in 2010 on the iOS app store). Chad created Doodle Army 2: Mini Militia (iOS April 2011) and soon after enlisted the help of a friend, Josh Neff. Around the same time, Chad was working on a game with Hunter Mayer called Flip the Bird (2011).

After a while DA2MM became more of an operations workload than anticipated so Hunter came onboard to contribute to DA2 (2012) and to help manage ops, alert systems when servers went down, develop code for game servers, help out on design, etc. Josh moved on and had discontinued actively supporting the game to work on his own company “Mountain Machine Games.”

By 2014 Hunter had taken on even more support and developer duties. Eventually becoming a full-time developer and partner with Appsomniacs. DA2 launched on Android in spring of 2015 In October 2015, DA2 started gaining much popularity in India and SEA in general. By July 2016, there were 12.2 million devices detected in a month (iOS and Android combined) and 2.6 million Android users. 71% of the players were from India. DA2 hit number one action game in Nepal on Android with strong representation in the Philippines, Jamaica, Brazil, Syria and Indonesia. By early 2018, Mini Militia had grown to 3.5 million players a day. For just two developers, supporting DA2 became overwhelming. v4.0.36 (Feb 2018) was the last DA2 release with code mostly written by Appsomniacs LLC.

In April 2018, Miniclip made a business offer to take over the Doodle Army franchise. For the next 2.5 years, Chad and Hunter transitioned the trademarks, game code, and servers to Miniclip and became consultants to the development of Miniclip's version of DA2:Mini

Militia. v4.0.42 (May 2018) was the last release Appsomniacs had a hand in releasing but was under the name Miniclip. Miniclip was 100% in control of releases and content choices in v4.1.x and beyond. Miniclip pulled the original Doodle Army game from the app stores because the game had fallen out of compliance with Apple and needed to be updated.

In Oct 2020, Miniclip decided the Doodle Army franchise as a whole was not something they wanted to continue working with so the rights flipped back to Appsomniacs in a contract renegotiation.

In Nov 2020, Appsomniacs had started the process of building Mini Militia Classic, an updated and expanded version of DA2 (v4.0.36) from prior to the Miniclip sale. By the end of Dec 2020, the first Alpha release of MMC was available for download. Current information about MMC updates and release planning is posted to the Alpha Force Google group (https://groups.google.com/g/mini-militia-classic-alpha-force).

The IP for Doodle Army was also reverted back to Appsomniacs. The game is still badly out of date and all of Appsomniacs' developer resources (Chad and Hunter) are currently devoted to the creation and launch of MMC. Appsomniacs plans to create a remastered version of Doodle Army. It is not yet known where Doodle Army Remastered will fit into the overall business roadmap, but somewhere after MMClassic's public launch and between the updating/releasing of Crash Cart and Fail Whale, it will happen.

## Q: What happened to Doodle Army Boot Camp?

A: The original Doodle Army game was bounced around in the IP sale with Miniclip. While under their control, Miniclip pulled Doodle Army from the app stores. The IP has since reverted back to Appsomniacs but the DA game is badly out of date and we are currently putting all of our Dev power into getting Mini Militia Classic built and tested.

HOWEVER, this is not the end of Doodle Army! In between other projects, a Remastered version has been started. We don't know where Doodle Army Remastered will fit into our overall business roadmap, but somewhere after MMClassic's public launch and between the updating/releasing of Crash Cart and Fail Whale, it will happen.

## Q: What is the status of the other Appsomniacs games?

A: Many of the other Appsomniacs games are in various states of needing work done. Some need to be ported to Android. Others need security updates to be allowed to be posted in the stores.

* Mini Militia: Doodle Army 2 - Currently available worldwide on iOS and Android. App is being maintained and published under Miniclip.
* Mini Militia Classic - Under development and being tested. Alpha testing is available worldwide for both iOS and Android.
* Doodle Army Boot Camp - Not available in any store, though old versions already downloaded should still be playable. A remastered version has been started. It needs to be ported to Android and monetized before it can be released.
* Fail Whale - In a Beta early release in US iOS. Has many performance issues (requires lots of bandwidth) and needs to be ported to Android.
* Crash Cart - Released in US iOS only. Requires more testing, improvements to game functionality, and needs to be ported to Android. A Crash Cart v2 underdevelopment has performance enhancement changes.
* Zombie Road Rage - Released on iOS (worldwide?) but not in the store. Needs to be remastered and ported to Android.
* Poo Flingers - Available on Amazon store. Android play only works on a single device (pass and play).
* Flip the Bird - iOS only removed from Apple for security issues.