Droppin' Balls! My 1st GS game is live. Promo Codes inside. DL numbers to follow

skotleachskotleach Member Posts: 48
edited November -1 in Announce Your Game!
Droppin' Balls is physics based puzzle game. The objective is to safely land the ball on a striped platform.

Here's a link

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/droppin-balls/id432273112?mt=8

Here are some codes:
FTJJW3NMN64X
4HJFWEL9FMJH
3JPLFPHLAA47
TAYTTKH39EKN
A7HKP4Y49WJ4

I posted a thread in iPhone Publishing a week ago about cross promotion techniques ( you can read is here http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=21596 ). I plan to use these techniques for this app. I'll share all the download data as it comes in.
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  • scitunesscitunes Member, Sous Chef Posts: 4,047
    looks fun!
  • calvin9403calvin9403 Member Posts: 3,186
    great
  • expired_012expired_012 Member Posts: 1,802
    Graphics look quite cute, hope it does you well
  • RedlerTechRedlerTech Member Posts: 1,583
    used TAYTTKH39EKN
  • skotleachskotleach Member Posts: 48
    Here's some download data:

    Friday 4/22 - the app was live for several hours and received 23 downloads

    Saturday 4/23 - first full day of availability the app received 100 downloads. It held a position of 136 in Games>Puzzles.

    Sunday 4/24 - no download number yet, obviously, but the app position in Games>Puzzles is currently 92
  • skotleachskotleach Member Posts: 48
    Droppin'n Balls is now being featured in New and Noteworthy>Puzzle and New and Noteworthy>Strategy
  • CrazybreadmanCrazybreadman Member Posts: 674
    Glad to hear you're having success. Good luck with N&N on Thursday!
  • skotleachskotleach Member Posts: 48
    Thanks. I'll continue to upload download data as I get it.
  • kapserkapser Member Posts: 458
    Haven't played it but the graphics are pretty smooth.

    Good luck with sales!
  • skotleachskotleach Member Posts: 48
    Thanks Kapser.

    More data...

    177 downloads on 4/24

    current rank is #63 in Games>Strategy and #79 in Games>Puzzles
  • AsymptoteellAsymptoteell Member Posts: 1,362
    looks great!
  • akashvirakashvir Member Posts: 42
    The graphics look awesome..Best of luck with the sales man.. Hope you do really well..

    Cheers..
  • CrazybreadmanCrazybreadman Member Posts: 674
    Hey what's sales like now? I saw you were almost in the top 100 games (like 130 or so). Congrats! When you get on N&N you will already have some momentum. I think you'll hit this one out of the park man :)
  • DreamLabDreamLab Member Posts: 2,127
    Yes please share sales.

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  • DreamLabDreamLab Member Posts: 2,127
    number 77 in games! this is great man. Photobucket
  • skotleachskotleach Member Posts: 48
    Here's more data

    4/25 161 dls
    4/26 216 dls
    4/27 771 dls
    4/28 945 dls

    I think the game is pretty good but a lot of the traffic is coming from cross promotion. The cross promo has kicked the app into the rankings and earned it some organic traffic. All and all I'm thrilled with the results... I'm still a strong advocate for cross promoting your applications.
  • DreamLabDreamLab Member Posts: 2,127
    skotleach said:
    Here's more data

    4/25 161 dls
    4/26 216 dls
    4/27 771 dls
    4/28 945 dls

    I think the game is pretty good but a lot of the traffic is coming from cross promotion. The cross promo has kicked the app into the rankings and earned it some organic traffic. All and all I'm thrilled with the results... I'm still a strong advocate for cross promoting your applications.

    almost a thousand downloads in a day. thats amazing. Im going to go back and read that thread again.

    EDIT: your at 61 now!

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  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    what sort of cross promotion did you do?

    edit: doh, should have read your first post more carefully :) congrats on the success so far!

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  • skotleachskotleach Member Posts: 48
    I've worked in mobile for many years, mostly designing products. A couple of years ago I decided I wanted to learn as much as I could about the iTunes app store and building iPhone apps. I'd designed several apps for other companies but I wanted to learn to do everything myself. My personal experience is that in order to most effectively learn something you should dive right in and start executing as much as possible. With that spirit in mind I made about 200 iPhone apps. They're pretty mediocre. Mostly facts and wallpaper. I have a Truth or Dare that's decent. Once I discovered GameSalad I saw it as an opportunity to leverage my learnings and build a more sophisticated app. I cross promoted my GS game like so:

    Every one of my 180+ apps has an alert that fires at launch. It's an xml file I host on a web server. I can change the alert dynamically. In this case I have the alert ask the user if they want to check out my game. If they say yes I link them to the app in the appstore. A No will cancel the alert.

    On top of that I run AdMob in most of my apps. AdMob supports house ads, which basically means I can run adds for my other apps for free. So set my AdMob ads to my GS game.

    Pretty simple really, but it works.

    I wrote a post explaining in detail these techniques. I recommended that developers try and produce a large quantity of applications so they can cross promote. There was some concern that it might be difficult to achieve quality and quantity, which certainly makes sense. I think some of the like-minded developers should think about hooking up and forming a kind of cross promotion collective.

    Anyway, if you have specific questions let me know.
  • ozboybrianozboybrian PRO Posts: 2,102
    That's crazy!!!! Awesome stuff mate, Congratulations.

    Please advertise it on my Fb page - In a video if you can.

    http://www.facebook.com/ListYourTopiPhoneGame

    Also email me a Promo!
    ozboybrian@hotmail.com
  • fzeedfzeed Member Posts: 247
    Who did the artwork. I'm looking for an artist like that.
  • ShaneS429ShaneS429 Member Posts: 77
    Amazing Work!

    I think I can say that it is work like this and amazing download numbers is what pushes us all to do what we do. There is nothing like a good success story to make get us all motivated to do the best on our games.

    Here is to great download numbers and ratings for your game!
  • DreamLabDreamLab Member Posts: 2,127
    Its in the new and noteworthy for all games in the u.s. this should get the sales boosting even more. I can't believe how much success this thing is having. Great job!
  • steve86steve86 Member Posts: 806
    are you kind enough to share us the latest numbers?
  • andrewm2211andrewm2211 Member Posts: 341
    Skol, sent you an PM, email me andrewbardusk@yahoo.com
  • DevilsDevils Member Posts: 561
    steve86 said:
    are you kind enough to share us the latest numbers?

    Current numbers are probably in the filthy rich section so he abandoned us
    :(
  • DreamLabDreamLab Member Posts: 2,127
    Devils said:
    Current numbers are probably in the filthy rich section so he abandoned us
    :(

    haha. I still can't believe he is having this much success. Im jealous!
  • DevilsDevils Member Posts: 561
    Well I guess he deserves it if he's worked hard on his game he should be successful I hope my game does this well. If Ian ever gets returned to me :( I really need my art guy.
  • scitunesscitunes Member, Sous Chef Posts: 4,047
    Congrats on the main games N&N! Awesome job!
  • IncrediboIncredibo Member Posts: 274
    He also has an app called ABC'S OF BOOBS Ranked #29 on the Top 25. So if something pops up saying to visit the other app he must be doing great.(: Congrats! Mate.
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