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Press Release: December 2011

Robots and Pencils Announces Eerie iOS Puzzle Game "Catch the Princess"

"Cut the Rope" Meets "Ico" in Upcoming Title from Calgary-Based Developer of "Minecraft World Explorer" and More

CALGARY (December 16): Canadian app developer Robots and Pencils challenges you to save the damsel in distress over and over and over again in its upcoming physics-based puzzle game Catch the Princess HD. Play through more than 60 dungeon levels with a wide variety of challenges, cutting the chains that bind the poor princess to the ceiling. Plan your moves carefully, using bellows, pixie dust and physics to swing the princess' cage past dangerous obstacles, as you guide her into the waiting arms of a fang-toothed admirer.

Catch the Princess will be released for iPhone and iPod Touch – alongside Catch the Princess HD for iPad – on December 21.

Catch the Princess includes:

  • Over 60+ Levels of physics-based princess rescue (and more on the way)
  • Hours of gameplay with no loading time
  • Beautiful Retina HD graphics
  • Over 200 Crystals to collect
  • The Advanced Princess-In-Cage-Of-Weeping-Death Physics Engine
  • A host of GameCenter Achievements to brag about
  • Haunting audio by the renowned Steve Sim, former sound director at BioWare

The game's official website features the debut video, and can be found at http://robotsandpencils.com/factory/catch-the-princess.

About Robots and Pencils

We love to make things. We started out as a 2-person husband-and-wife team (one robot, one pencil), inspired by 37signals. Today we have offices (think: small, shanty like structures) throughout the world, including Calgary, Hong Kong & San Francisco. The team is made up of more than 70+ makers, building apps for the consumer and enterprise. We've had the #4 top grossing app in North America, two #1 Apps in the UK, and enough Top 10s that listing them would just be uncouth. The Robots are the programmers and the Pencils are the designers, in case you were wondering. More information at http://robotsandpencils.com.



Press Release: May 2009

Innovative Partnerships to Enable over 400 Ethiopian Children Access to Sanitation & Clean Water (PRWEB LINK.) - MAY 2009

Local Vancouver Non-Profits Partner With Calgary Company To Save Lives In Ethiopia with proceeds from iPhone App, CrushFactor.

Vancouver, BC May 7, 2009 -- Calgary-based company Robots & Pencils, have partnered with Waterdrop and imagine1day to bring clean water and proper sanitation to the village and have committed to donating 10% of gross revenue from their latest iPhone App, CrushFactor.

The latrine and clean water access are part of a Grade 1-4 primary school which will accommodate 400 children and become the heart and future for this community's 2,000 inhabitants in Gerambero, Ethiopia.

According to Robots & Pencil's CEO Michael J. Sikorsky, "Access to clean water is problem plaguing the world today and WaterDrop and imagine1day are doing incredible work to bring life to the people of Gerambero. We're proud to support it!"

Sapna Dayal, the Executive Director of Imagine1day, said "Our partnership with Robots & Pencils is a perfect example of innovative social responsibility, enabling a local Canadian company to have an international impact."

Construction of the school begins in January 2010 and will be completed by June 2010. The sustainable community project aims to provide full access latrine, health care, clean water resources, community gardens and over 2,000 fruit trees.

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Robots and Pencils makes things for the iPhone, Web, and Desktop. It was founded by Michael and Camille Sikorsky. For more information please visit http://robotsandpencils.com.

imagine1day is a charitable organization that builds schools and provides quality primary education to thousands of children in Ethiopia. Launched in 2007 with an endowment from entrepreneurs Chip and Shannon Wilson of lululemon athletica, imagine1day provides an opportunity for donors to be directly connected to projects in Ethiopia through an innovative and interactive online giving platform. For more please see http://www.imagine1day.org.

WaterDrop is a proactive, community-powered, social organization aimed at transforming the world's perception of water through raising awareness, fund-raising support, and encouraging interaction through a 3-tiered approach including community action, national engagement, and global development. For more information please see http://www.waterdrop.ca.

Press Release: May 2009

It's a Boy and a Girl! (PRWEB LINK.) - MAY 2009

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It's a Boy and a Girl! Calgary-Based Company, Robots and Pencils Inc. Launches Website and First iPhone App, CrushFactor

Robots and Pencils Inc. is proud to announce the birth of its website (7lbs, 3 oz.) and its iPhone App, CrushFactor (5lbs, 2 oz.).

Calgary, AB May 7, 2009 -- Calgary-based company Robots & Pencils, is proud to announce the birth of their website and iPhone App, CrushFactor.

Robots and Pencils co-founder Camille Sikorsky asks the community to "Please make our little babies feel welcome in this big world by visiting them. Our handsome little devil of a website likes having its belly tickled. While our cute-as-a-button iPhone App, CrushFactor loves being downloaded."

According to Robots & Pencil's CEO Michael J. Sikorsky, within minutes of being born the little iPhone App, CrushFactor started saying "I'm the App for that!".

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Robots and Pencils makes things for the iPhone, Web, and Desktop. It was founded by Michael and Camille Sikorsky. For more information please visit http://robotsandpencils.com or http://itunes.com/apps/crushfactor.