What were the #1 games?

AngryBoi

Looking at the featured games category, it says there were 3 games the hit the #1 spot... What were they? Anyone know? I want to see what they were like...

Braydon_SFX

I know @DeepBlueApps Bumps title did really well.

WarpSpeed

@BetweenTheWalls said:
Looking at the featured games category, it says there were 3 games the hit the #1 spot... What were they? Anyone know? I want to see what they were like...

Excellent question...I would love to know the answer.

UtopianGames

We had 2 top 20 games but never a number 1.

AngryBoi

How much cash you pop from that?

AngryBoi

Actually I may know one of them.. Back when Flappy Bird was out, about 2 weeks before I started using GS, I played a flappy knock off called "Blue Bird 2: Flappy Resurrection". Once I started using GS, I noticed the loading symbol, and then remembered that the knock off had the same thing.........The game has like 43,000 reviews.. and probably hit the number 1 spot. If you look up AppleNApps on the Appstore, you should be able to find it.

AngryBoi

I wish I used GS back when Flappy was out so I could have boarded this bandwagon.

jonmulcahy

@BetweenTheWalls said:
I wish I used GS back when Flappy was out so I could have boarded this bandwagon.

There was no real bandwagon. So many clones flooded the market no one really got anything. There were so many clones coming out every day we had to create a master thread for all of them. It was a dark time

Make something original, you'll be much more satisfied

Chunkypixels

@jonmulcahy ...I believe that master Flappy Bird clone thread was just the tip of the iceberg. Im pretty sure there was probably hundreds of GS Flappy clones that didn't even get announced on the forums.

I even did one... more as a test originally, to see if I could make a game totally from scratch in two days... which I couldn't as it turned out.. and the game sat unloved and unpublished for about a year, until it got used in the Amazon promotion and then published to iOS at the end of last year... https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/kitty-pilot/id955368504?mt=8

I believe I've had a total of around 400 downloads (Free), which makes it my least downloaded game..ever

I wouldn't be surprised if most small indie developers didn't try to knock up their own clone, if only to see how fast they could do it, if not for profit... half of the Appstore is probably Flappy Bird clones

...oops... sorry about de-railing the thread. To get back on topic, wasn't one of the number 1 games one of those Room type games from what I seem to remember. Maybe one of the GS staff could help here?...

AngryBoi

Yes! I want to see them!

ant_lad

red ball bounce or something like that is talked about going to 1 as a $10 GS template.

AngryBoi

Oh yeah.. Red Bouncing Ball Spikes. I played that before. Some games get so lucky!

jay2dx

To be honest flappy bird was great for the mobile industry, I came to GS because I wanted to make a flappy clone, I did, I made tappy toad and from there I've stuck with GS and have released 7 games now and have many in the pipe line, I honestly believe without it I wouldn't have even considered GS, I was more in unreal engine working on a 3d exploration game, which I still am, but anyways I bet GS made a fair buck with all the pro subs that must have happened

jonmulcahy

@LamboDriva said:
Oh yeah.. Red Bouncing Ball Spikes. I played that before. Some games get so lucky!

that's wasn't luck, Mateen gamed the system:
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/02/app-store-scammer-makes-10000-per-day-game-template.html

Armelline

One was Flappy Cyrus.

Chunkypixels

@jonmulcahy ...you bring back a name that we'd all hoped to forget...

jonmulcahy

@Chunkypixels said:
jonmulcahy ...you bring back a name that we'd all hoped to forget...

if you google his name he's moved on to providing hacking services. what a great person

Franto

When do you think the next influx of cloners will come about? And what will trigger it?

Thunder_Child

@LamboDriva said:
I wish I used GS back when Flappy was out so I could have boarded this bandwagon.

Actually it was a train...the GS train.

jay2dx

I've had a game hit the number 1 spot in best new games! In the action category and number 3 in family! But this is the best new games not the fratured best games!

AngryBoi

Who of the staff should I tag for this question?

Chunkypixels

I think one of the ePig games might be one. I remember seeing on one of their trailers it saying number 1 in 15 countries or something similar.

BigDave

Three points was mine. Place 8
350000 Downloads within week. Made $1000 to 1500 + $2000 template sell
That shows how important your monetisation is..
The current version of the game would have made $28000 to $35000 instead.
But I moved on from 0.01 to 0.03 ARPU games to 0.15 ARPU minimum with a combination of none consumable in-apps.

But spot 1 I do not know it might be a marketing quote mainly saying its possible to rank high with this software. Witch hunting leads to nothing except burned witches.

BigDave

AngryBoi

@BigDave it must've been great seeing your game up there!

BigDave

@LamboDriva it was freaking exciting man
special seeing next to this big titles but its hard to stay there

wolala123

@BigDave hope you make another "Three Points" hit game.

BigDave

@wolala123 i hope..

As_Of_Latte

@BigDave I had no idea Three Points was your game! I remember seeing it in the app store, downloading it and loved it. Nice work .

I know you'll come out with another hit game soon!

As_Of_Latte

@tappwaterGames If you don't mind me asking, how many downloads have you received from "Top 2 Bottom"?

Love that game as well, nicely done!

AngryBoi

@As Of Latte Thanks! But, not so well... 130 downloads maybe.. If you liked that, give Between the Walls a try! It's a lot better in my perspective. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/between-the-walls/id986230427?ls=1&mt=8