What do we do?

Finger Food Studios creates fantastic social mobile apps & games for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Mobile Web.  

Who do we work with?

We work closely with marketing agencies, game studios, and enterprise clients to bring their concepts successfully into the mobile space.

How do we do it?

Finger Food Studios offers a full range of services to turn mobile concepts into reality.

Design

Each client is different, and, we believe the design stage is the key opportunity to ensure we are meeting them in the right place.

Our design methodology involves a model of iteration, where each successful pass on the project design allows us to increase the fidelity of the design and visual quality of the App. By starting with quick Wireframes at incredibly low fidelity, we can actively iterate on the design multiple times per day. Once the overall structure meets expectations, our artists begin the visual design and concept for the product. Finally, production art is created, and the flow is roughed in on the software side and final production can commence.

Development

While this may seem like the hard part to many, development also represents the most focused and rewarding stage of the project to us. Each day, features take shape, and the software does something new. It's hard, but bringing ideas to life on a daily basis is pretty cool too.

Our team has a wide range of skills across mobile technologies, visual development, and infrastructure for supporting these Apps:

Technical Aptitude

• iOS Development - iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad are our favourite platforms. We started the company as an iPhone development house, and still believe in the platform as the best conceived integration of hardware, software, and vision in the market today.
• Android Development - Android is a critically important up-and-coming platform. The support, price point, and open nature of the OS makes it the most attractive choice for smartphone manufacturers in the open-solution marketplace.
• BlackBerry Development 
• Mobile Web - We feel mobile web may be the most overlooked opportunity for value- oriented mobile development. Mobile web remains the closest thing to cross-platform development across the diverse range of modern devices offering the best value for clients looking to have a cross-platform presence.
• Unity 3D - For 3D Apps, Unity 3D is our platform of choice. We have deployed Unity 3D Apps for Mobile, Desktop (Mac/PC), and Web in the past. Most of our team members are game-industry veterans, and we are always excited by 3D gaming and entertainment projects.
• Social / Web Services - 75% of our projects to date have involved deploying or accessing back-end services within Apps. Our internal technology base includes all the tech needed to access public and private web services, as well as deploying new services when needed on our cloud-hosted server solutions. We have stock components and techniques for accessing Social Media services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare.
• Analytics - Analytics have become one of the most important aspects in creating a successful App.  Our custom solution allows clients to track every interaction between the user and the App.

Creative Services

• 2D and Graphic Design - Our art team is experienced in 2D graphic design, logos and branding, and production of both photo realistic and highly stylized design elements.
• 3D Modelling and Animation - The majority of our art talent has console game- industry experience, including working on cutting edge 3D entertainment. We feel that our ability to create amazing 3D content is unsurpassed amongst other studios of our size because of the background and talent of our art staff.
• Story and Copy Writing - We pride ourselves on our ability to bring focus to the concepts that are important to our clients. Often, this is a visual challenge, but it is also critical to ensure that the text, story, or other informative content are properly aligned throughout the product.
• Sound Design - Too often an afterthought, Sound Design can play a critical role in the communication of ideas in interactive software. We have experience and established relationships with sound designers and composers that can help transform a good App into a great App.

Project Management

We constantly strive to improve our quality and consistency. As the Mobile market matures, the value of process will steadily increase.

Great Apps don't happen by accident. They are the output of a carefully crafted plan, that is executed well, and adapted to the reality that emerges during the development process.

By leveraging modern management tools, we are able to provide our clients with full transparency into projects so that they can understand and influence the process in real time.