Newbie needs Help!
anau006
Member Posts: 2
Hi Guys,
I am very new to the game development and or Gamesalad world. I have recently signed up to the free membership. I haven’t developed anything yet. I have a few questions before I start developing or start making a game.
1) First of all is there a program/software like Gamesalad for apps not games.
2) How does advertising work. Not advertising for my game but advertising on my app. I am really confused. The reason I want to develop games is to make money. I read few places that best way to make money from apps/games is from advertising not from charging. Or I could do a free fully functional version with ads and a paid version exactly the same without ads. The reason I am confused is that I originally thought or still think that you just develop the game and then email a company like Google or whoever and tell them I have an app where I would like to get ads on. They do everything else. The things I didn’t know or am confused about are do I have to design space for advertising. And what's the difference between admob and iads. Cant one company choose the best for me. So I say to this company here's my app and put on whatever you want on it (iads or admob or any other platform) as long as it maximizes income for me. So they decide based on app download location which ad or which platform to put the ad on.
3) What is mobclix?
BTW don’t assume I know anything when you are answering as I don’t. I am quite new to this. I am still in the research stages. I have no problem paying the $500 membership for gamesalad as long as I can make a game with no coding at all with gamesalad and it makes me money after that (assuming I get downloads J)
Please feel free to send me links of any articles regarding mobile advertising and how it all works so I have a better understanding
Thanks a lot for your help in advance.
Newbie from NZ
I am very new to the game development and or Gamesalad world. I have recently signed up to the free membership. I haven’t developed anything yet. I have a few questions before I start developing or start making a game.
1) First of all is there a program/software like Gamesalad for apps not games.
2) How does advertising work. Not advertising for my game but advertising on my app. I am really confused. The reason I want to develop games is to make money. I read few places that best way to make money from apps/games is from advertising not from charging. Or I could do a free fully functional version with ads and a paid version exactly the same without ads. The reason I am confused is that I originally thought or still think that you just develop the game and then email a company like Google or whoever and tell them I have an app where I would like to get ads on. They do everything else. The things I didn’t know or am confused about are do I have to design space for advertising. And what's the difference between admob and iads. Cant one company choose the best for me. So I say to this company here's my app and put on whatever you want on it (iads or admob or any other platform) as long as it maximizes income for me. So they decide based on app download location which ad or which platform to put the ad on.
3) What is mobclix?
BTW don’t assume I know anything when you are answering as I don’t. I am quite new to this. I am still in the research stages. I have no problem paying the $500 membership for gamesalad as long as I can make a game with no coding at all with gamesalad and it makes me money after that (assuming I get downloads J)
Please feel free to send me links of any articles regarding mobile advertising and how it all works so I have a better understanding
Thanks a lot for your help in advance.
Newbie from NZ
Comments
iAd fill rates are appallingly bad, unless you can secure about 10000-20000 downloads a day (which needs something pretty special) then you won't make any money from iAds.
Saying that portrait orientated iPhone apps have the best fill rates of about 30%
So whats the answer with adverstising? I thought if you have decent downloads and decent traffic you make decent money from advertising. Why cant i put admob on here?
How does this advertising works on apps?