Nowadays it seems like everyone and their grandmother is creating some sort of app for the variety of gadgets that we love so much. Angry Birds, Draw Something and other popular smart phone and tablet games have exploded with popularity. Everyone wants a piece of the App economy including MethodShop.com reader, Joe Zito (@joseph_zito).  Zito is a filmmaker in waiting… and while he waits, he is determined not to waste one drop of his creative juices so he decided to you guessed it, create an app! The Hofstra University graduate started his career in film with humble beginings as a production assitant. Since then, he has worked on dozens of feature films including Tromeo and Juliet, Two Girls and A Guy and Destination Unknown. In addition to his production career, he has also made his mark in the post-production world with commercials for giants such as Ford, McDonalds and Coke and movies like The Brothers Grimm and Firewall. Zito already has two short films under his belt; Mr’s J’s Cafe and TURF and the feature film Backing Out is currently in the works with 90th Street Productions.

While “Backing Out” is getting some… backing together, the creative entrepeneur decided to form Yorkville Games, Inc., a boutique mobile game company, which has released it’s first title King’s Orders: Savages – Chapter One for the iPhone. We had the chance to catch up with Zito recently and ask him a few questions about his hopes and dreams, life and how to make an app people like and want to play.

Tell us your new iOS game?

The game is called King’s Orders: Savages – Chapter One. It’s a comedy game about Medieval Soldiers, who don’t really want to be at work and who keep getting sent out by their not-so-brave King to capture loose Savages outside of the castle.

How did making this game come about?

I’m a filmmaker and I’ve been putting together a feature film which can take quite a bit of time to setup. I saw Apps as a new medium to explore. One you could have a lot of fun with and be creative, so I came up with the idea for King’s Orders: Savages – Chapter One and went for it.

Why did you set your game in this time period?

Medieval times were so strict. There was no room for questioning your superiors. If you did, then that was it for you. So I thought it would be fun to mess with that rule.

How are you marketing it? How is it selling?

Sales are good. And I’m getting good responses. I’m marketing the game a few different ways. Through Social Media – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. I’m also working with a publicist and distributing postcards.

Technically speaking what was the process of creating this game from start to finish? How does one create a game?

I wrote out a treatment for the game. Then I wrote the script and created storyboards for the gameplay and the in-between scenes. I went to a sound studio and recorded the lines and the Savages Sounds. I recorded the music at my apartment. I worked with an illustrator for months getting the look of the characters and gameplay just right. I also worked with a programmer who started developing the code and we would go back and forth working out the flow and feel of the gameplay. When the illustrations were complete, the programmer replaced the test elements with the final artwork. Once everything was in place, I submitted it to the App Store for approval.

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