greenApes Blog

What's going on with greenApes. Behind the trees. Posts are by GregTheApe. Find out more on www.greenapes.com

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Release 2.1.1: Who’s rocking the jungle? (fair edition)

Hail to the sustainability champs! Rankings are now explorable. Compare your score with friends and become a celebrity in the jungle. Just go in the “Me” section and click on the “Charts” link. You’ll find two charts:

the Ape Parade: celebrating the most inspiring apes out there. Be creative, get claps, collect likes on Facebook for your shared actions and make it to the top. Prizes coming soon.

the Green Chart: the greenest apes are leading here. Live sustainably, share actions, earn weekly nuts for your behaviours. Who’s having greatest positive impact?

PS. a little nutquake (i.e. redistribution of nuts) is taking place in these hours, don’t panic:

- the nuts you earned in the past will contribute to your current Ape Rank more than they used to

- greenStones will give you nuts for your sustainable behaviours only in the weeks in which you’ll pass by in the jungle

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Release 2.1! New Profile and Direct Messages

greenApes 2.1 is now on the App Store, introducing a lot of stuff we're excited about.

Did you see that Messages balloon up there? A-ha, you can now exchange private messages on greenApes. Time to chat with your favourite apes (and perhaps share that secret recipe you are too jealous about). 

The restyling of the Me section also includes VIF (very important features - an expression I just made up)

Nuts for Stats: a pretty pie-chart giving you direct access to your personal Infograph. Many apes had never seen it on Facebook so we brought it in the app. It takes a couple secs to load, but it's worth waiting

About Me: you can include a short presentation in your profile: drop a line about yourself in the settings page!

The Ape Parade: all you apes are sharing great actions and pictures inspiring the rest of the community. So we decided that the most important ranking in the app will celebrate who's being most inspiring. Earn social nuts with claps, competitions and likes from facebook to make it to the top! Updates coming up soon...

Download, enjoy and let us know what you think!

ook ook,

GregTheApe

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Get back

Dear diary, I've been a bad ape. The last post dates back to 1 year ago. 

And many things happened in the meantime. Good ones.

So: back on tumblr. Time to share updates about greenApes, as live as possible. 

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Servers are humanizing, here is evidence: they don't like Monday mornings. Our jungle ranking looked like this some hours ago. Waking up in a grumpy mood... wonder what they're up to on weekends.

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We thought it could be fun to hear some jungle sounds when you receive notifications from greenApes (e.g. when somebody claps your actions, you win a battle or a question is answered).

I couldn't find neat sounds on the internet -  just several scary screams all over the place . And when I finally found a good sfx-library, it turned out to be taken from "Angry Birds Rio". Now, since stealing sounds from a blockbuster app didn't seem like the smartest idea on Earth, we went for DIY.

The attached file is a pointless collection of impressions of apes, attempted by the greenApes team. Hoping one of us would come up with the perfect sound.

Sharing is scaring.

PS there is one sample that actually comes from a real monkey. If you spot it you're hot.  PPS. search for gorilla sounds on the web and you'll understand why they didn't go for "Angry Apes" and sticked with those birds.

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We’re almost ready to implement a feature we wanted to have in version 1.0 and barely didn’t make it. A couple weeks back, when we realized  we had to leave it out, the 4-years-old child in me threw himself to the ground and started crying. And the rest of the team just made fun of me. It’s called “Ape-Rank”: as you earn nuts for your green actions your level will increase and, when you reach some targets, your ape evolves. I'm sure you're familiar with the concept. It will look something like this illustration. We hope you like it, some levels are pretty funny (this is level 1). In this very moment David started throwing stress-balls at me. He’s finalizing  the Ape-Rank on the backend. There might be issues. 

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Our story starts here. After approximately 2 years of groundwork and 7 months of development, we launched  greenApes. Which basically means that now we don't sleep anymore because we live to count downloads and posts. Once I thought that after the launch things would get more relaxed. How naive.

PS. If you just ran into this page you might want to check our website. http://www.greenApes.com , and if you're awesome download the app.