how many downloads have people are received on their games?

RichongsRichongs Member Posts: 20
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Hey Everyone:

I joined the community yesterday, and receive a lot of wonderful responses to my posts! I have gone through the community, and played with lots of games people posted. There are a lot of wonderful games! I was wondering, who has the most downloaded game? And/or, how many downloads have people are received on their games?

~Rich

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  • iamcarteziamcartez Houston, TexasMember Posts: 648
    Well I'm stil a rookie and starting off with simple word games to get an understanding of logic, etc.

    My two GS games on the Apple appStore.
    Word Tap Tap / HD has about 2000 downloads after being live for 50 days.
    Nonagon Slide / HD has about 500 downloads after being live for about 2 weeks.

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  • bjandthekatzbjandthekatz Orlando, FlMember Posts: 1,375
    edited June 2013
    (Not My Game)
    I know Doodle Destroy has over 1 Million Downloads
    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/doodle-destroy-free/id369151728?mt=8

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  • RichongsRichongs Member Posts: 20
    edited June 2013
    I saw the gamesaad.com/creator/stories, but it doesn't say how many times the games were downloaded...

    Wow: impressive that Doodle destroy was download over 1 million times... lol (As a 14-year-old student in Kuwait, Aalzanki used GameSalad Creator to build Doodle Destroy in 3 days. His first foray into independent game development has generated over 900,000 downloads, and he's even been featured on CNN!)... 14 year olds' 3 day application was downloaded over 900,000 - impressive!
  • The_Gamesalad_GuruThe_Gamesalad_Guru Member Posts: 9,922
    Download you get depend on a lot of things. Quality of game, game type, marketing,word of mouth. What I can tell you is getting a game noticed and I'm talking about a top notch game is hard very hard. Prepare for a reality check when you release your first game there is a lot of good competition out there.

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  • HalfBakedProductionsHalfBakedProductions Member, PRO Posts: 248
    PetRun did much better than I expected, receiving 1000 downloads on the first day. I now have about 4000 downloads, the reason being that I switched to making PetRun cost 99c.

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  • Braydon_SFXBraydon_SFX Member, Sous Chef, Bowlboy Sidekick Posts: 9,273
    Ah, one of these threads. ;)

    Penguin Pounce gets about 9,000-11,000 downloads per day when I set it free.
    Some of my others free full games got around 300-350 downloads a day for quite long time. Of course, new games come out and downloads slow downloads. Like @FryingBaconStudios already mentioned, it depends on a lot of things.

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  • RichongsRichongs Member Posts: 20
    @braydon. You wrote: "Penguin Pounce gets about 9,000-11,000 downloads per day when I set it free" specifically PER day. Hence, how many days were people downloading 11,000 copies?
  • The_Gamesalad_GuruThe_Gamesalad_Guru Member Posts: 9,922
    Don't expect those kinds of numbers as we'd need to see the quality of your game. You should be more worried about making a quality game first and the numbers take care of themselves.

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  • Braydon_SFXBraydon_SFX Member, Sous Chef, Bowlboy Sidekick Posts: 9,273
    It's hard to get 11,000 copies downloaded in one day when free. Believe me.
    I've only had one day where I got 11,000 downloads. The next day it went down to 8,000, and kept falling as the days went by. The trick is not let that number get to 0. ;)

    There are plenty of amazing games that when set free don't get nearly that many downloads. It's all about the kind of game, the time of year, and when other huge businesses aren't releasing any new games.

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  • BazookaTimeBazookaTime Member Posts: 1,274
    Those are all good numbers, I would have to check (it has been a while) but I don't think I have had a game break 1,000, close though.
  • MVLMVL Member Posts: 71
    edited June 2013
    My new game, Tap Bouncer has more than 35,000 downloads; while most of my other games have about 15,000 downloads each. I've never expected my games to get as many downloads as they have. But, I have found that setting your apps release date manually has given me a large increase in downloads. As @Braydon_SFX said, time is key for large downloads.
  • AEPstudiosAEPstudios Member Posts: 110
    do you guys believe quality over quantity
  • RPRP Member Posts: 1,990
    Is the sky blue?
  • RichongsRichongs Member Posts: 20
    you keep saying "time" is critical. Can you elaborate more please? Thanks...
  • lebiscuitlebiscuit Member, PRO Posts: 220
    very interesting,
  • lebiscuitlebiscuit Member, PRO Posts: 220
    It's all about the kind of game, the time of year, and when other huge businesses aren't releasing any new games.
    so true
  • RiffelRiffel Member Posts: 1,272
    all my games downloads > 500k

    www.marcosriffel.com

  • IsabelleKIsabelleK Member, Sous Chef Posts: 2,807
    There are a looooot of such topics, with the same questions. Sales are only based on the quality, idea, and polish of each game. You can earn nothing, you can earn millions. It's all up to you.

    Closing this.
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