finally finished the game, very well done. the story is smooth from beginning to end, though the game control could use a little improvement. it's excellent work.
Bought. Very difficult for me to find time to play games but I can't support this enough.
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Thanks everyone! Yeah, it's doing amazingly well around the world. #1 paid app in many countries, #1 paid game in over 30 countries. For those interested, The Lost City currently pulls in about 30K$/day across all devices. If it gets featured by Apple tomorrow, I assume it will go even higher than that. We'll see!
@glgames I don't think that it's just one game that has generated this success. More a question of solid apps over a few years so people can trust what FMG makes, then a solid app on top of the building, very careful thought and execution of 'The Lost City' borne of the experience of his past work, taking in very wisely the market and still making something he was very passionate about, then working at the promotion through cross marketing from Grisly Manor. Joe has been exemplary in all aspects along the way and this is paying off. Now I am just holding my breath and crossing my fingers for the 'Apple Factor', and hoping for those features and front paging. If that happens... No one deserves it more.
there is no way apple will not feature this game if they have any sort of business minded approach... joe put in minimal advertising for this game (personally i think its clever with making grisly free and all) and its selling like anything... the minimum he deserves from them is a front page feature in all the countries he's hit number 1 in.
Fantastic Joe! Totally stoked for you mate. Just love it.
Care to tell us which devices are making how many downloads on average? that'd be awesome to know which are pulling the most and which are pulling the least.
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Can't say this enough - Congrats!
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T-Shirt, you should be next!
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Awesome work. Totally excited for you, Joe.
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I will be patiently refreshing my iPhone every minute this afternoon!
BTW My kids and I have played the game all the way through EVERY day since release!
Care to tell us which devices are making how many downloads on average? that'd be awesome to know which are pulling the most and which are pulling the least.
Keep it mate! $100,000 a day soon
Keep the fantastic work!
It's nice to see one of the original GameSalad regulars living the dream.