iap and gamecircle in amazon

tarsiustudio

Hello, I'm building a game to amazon and have seen that there is a tender until December 27 you get a free month per game published in amazon. But reading the forums I have a doubt, the game is required to create and integrate IAP and GameCircle? or I can turn up the game without IAP or GameCircle and to benefit from the offer GameSalad offers?

thanks

Armelline

My understanding is that you get the free month for any app accepted by Amazon and placed on their app store. This means you do not have to have either IAP or GameCircle, as long as your app gets accepted by Amazon.

(They seem to be very fast and fairly lenient in my experience - had two games approved over the weekend, each within 24 hours.)

To be eligible for Amazon's "Developer Select", however, you must have GameCircle in your app. That's a whole different thing, though.

tarsiustudio

can you explain me what this means To be eligible for Amazon's "Developer Select", however, you must have GameCircle in your app. That's a whole different thing, though. is that the translation of google is not very good and I do not speak English and are not referred to. thanks

Armelline

Well I got my free months and my games don't have either.

On the promo page they say:

For starters, you will now have access to development options specifically optimized for the Kindle Fire platform, including drag-and-drop integration with Amazon’s in-app purchase and GameCircle APIs.

And for a limited time we’re offering free Kindle Fire publishing to our entire developer community plus one free month of Pro Membership for each new game that gets published to the Amazon Appstore!

No mention of needing either IAP or GameCircle to be included. Just that you CAN include them.

Additionally, no mention of either being required in the terms and conditions:

http://gamesalad.com/amazon-team-up-terms

They seem pretty clear that you have two options. 1. Submit a NEW app. 2. Add IAP/GameCircle to an existing app.

So no, it is not required for new apps.

tarsiustudio

many thanks @ Armelline has helped me a lot. Sorry to ask another question but you can put amazon ads with GS? or I have to put a price on my game? thanks again and sorry for the inconvenience

Armelline

I have no personal experience of using ads in Amazon apps. I see there is an option for Mobclix ads when generating a Kindle app, but other than that I have no idea I'm afraid. My presumption would be no.

tarsiustudio

if I saw the option but I think Mobclix went bankrupt so the safest thing to put price. Thank you very much for all your help