Help from the GS community

Player_EPlayer_E Member, PRO Posts: 604
edited November -1 in Announce Your Game!
After only 1 day of sales I have decided to test something out. I have made Alpha Sniper free for 3 days.

Download it here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alpha-sniper/id404809978?mt=8

Reasoning behind this:
I was at the top of the list for Simulation (new releases) and on the first page for new releases under the games and action category. After about 5 hours of fighting to keep my thread a float on toucharcade I noticed it was not getting much attention and I wanted to take advantage about being on the top of the list.

Then it hit me, the biggest problem most of us have is that we do not have the name recognition that the more successful apps do, such as halfbrick or donut games. So when the average Joe see's game from X game company it better make them Sh*t their pants or they will just over look it.

Thats when I thought since my game obviously doesn't make players sh*t their pants, it wouldn't hurt to try and get word of my game out there by making it free for a few days. who knows, maybe in those 3 days 5,000 people will download it and they will tell their friends about it and things could just snow ball.

Any way please help me out by grabbing a copy of it and leaving me a review and rate :)

Thanks

Comments

  • juzcookjuzcook Member Posts: 259
    I've just done this with Juzzies. However I'm making it free for a week leading up to the release my new game. On the first day it had 800 free downloads, then the second day had an extra 1,700, as well as multiple reviews on websites and youtube. So now I'm expecting an even bigger number by the end of today.

    I think it's also a publicity thing. Think about the number of people that show their friends new apps they found (hell I'm one of them). If you have thousands of people who have downloaded the game for free show their friends after it goes back to paid, you'll be able to score some better sales in theory. I'm trying my best to really promote my new game so that it takes off when it launches.

    I'll grab a copy and leave a review sometime today! Good luck with sales!
  • Player_EPlayer_E Member, PRO Posts: 604
    thanks for the support.

    I also think people like seeing that your game has the star ranking or they tend to stay away from it.
  • scitunesscitunes Member, Sous Chef Posts: 4,047
    Dude, not true.

    I am cleaning out my tighty-whities right now after looking at your app!
  • magic101himagic101hi Member Posts: 713
    juzcook said:
    I've just done this with Juzzies. However I'm making it free for a week leading up to the release my new game. On the first day it had 800 free downloads, then the second day had an extra 1,700.

    thats like when i put my app up for free it got 1300 the first day then 1800 then dropped to 700 then dropped to 200 and has continued dropping down to 'bout 50 a day!

    -Josh
  • Player_EPlayer_E Member, PRO Posts: 604
    thanks Scitunes

    glad I have some fans out there :)
  • TobyToby Member Posts: 478
    pretty good job, I find the targeting a little awkward.

    Fire button was not obvious enough, you have it in the demo but there needs to be some indication of a button there. I found it eventually by tapping around when i first played.

    if i lose the target in zoomed view its difficult to locate quickly, you can zoom out but its a little annoying.
    Should put an arrow on the edge of the target to indicate the direction to go.

    The target wraps over the x axis, was this intended?

    For the first iteration, pretty good stuff.

    Did you draw the manga chick, or buy the image?
  • Player_EPlayer_E Member, PRO Posts: 604
    Thanks for the feed back. Yeah the game is supposed to wrap, but idk if you are talking about a target wrapping around. I checked and all targets should not wrap, but one may have squeaked by.

    I actually have a friend who draws manga stuff.
  • Player_EPlayer_E Member, PRO Posts: 604
    A little update on how my experiment is going.

    I made Alpha Sniper! free 12/3/12 around 10am Arizona time. I just checked the info I got from appannie and reports show that I had 2,731 downloads.

    I hope this helps out with sales after my experiment is over
  • peachpellenpeachpellen Member Posts: 977
    Please keep us updated; results from making apps free seem to vary widely, so I'm very interested :)
  • Player_EPlayer_E Member, PRO Posts: 604
    will do
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    Left a review on the UK app store - I kinda liked the game - it has some issues, but fun overall!

    Good luck with your experiment!

    QS :D

    Dr. Sam Beckett never returned home...
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    Web: https://quantumsheep.itch.io

  • gazjmgazjm Member Posts: 578
    Also just rated and reviewed on the UK store!
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    I saw this game earlier on free app tracker and wasn't on wifi so i had to wait. Had no idea this was a GS game but it looked awesome. thanks for reminding me to go grab it.
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  • Player_EPlayer_E Member, PRO Posts: 604
    seems like most of my issues are with the iphone4

    I think someone may have informed me on a solution, so Im working on that and hopefully ill get better reviews :)
  • Player_EPlayer_E Member, PRO Posts: 604
    on the second day of being free in the app store I have received 15,870 downloads

    to bring a total of 18,601 downloads while free.

    I hope that once I get the update out I can resolve the issue with the iPhone4 and then these numbers will translate into decent sales, but I can only hope.
  • Player_EPlayer_E Member, PRO Posts: 604
    well third day downloads are in and yesterday I had 11,133 free downloads. Bringing the total downloads to 29,743.

    Yesterday I submitted my update to apple, so hopefully it will be up soon that way iPhone4 users can actually play my game :)

    Due to this I decided to keep the game free until the update. and then price will be raised to .99

    Hopefully these numbers will turn into some decent paid downloads
  • Player_EPlayer_E Member, PRO Posts: 604
    Actually I just made a quick decision to stick to my original 3 day experiment and switch the price back to .99

    Reasoning behind this is because according to appannie.com Alpha Sniper is featured in 23 places

    Australia > iPhone > Action > New & Noteworthy
    Australia > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    Canada > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    France > iPhone > Action > New & Noteworthy
    France > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    Hong Kong > iPhone > Action > New & Noteworthy
    Hong Kong > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    Italia > iPhone > Action > New & Noteworthy
    Italia > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    Japan > iPhone > Action > New & Noteworthy
    Japan > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    Philipines > iPhone > Action > New & Noteworthy
    Philipines > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    Russia > iPhone > Action > New & Noteworthy
    Russia > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    Singapore > iPhone > Action > New & Noteworthy
    Singapore > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    Spain > iPhone > Action > New & Noteworthy
    Spain > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    Taiwan > iPhone > Action > New & Noteworthy
    Taiwan > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    United Kingdom > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy
    United States > iPhone > Simulation > New & Noteworthy

    I dont know how long you are featured for, but I wanted to take advantage of this for at least 1 day before it goes away.

    Wish me luck!
  • HoneyTribeStudiosHoneyTribeStudios Member Posts: 1,792
    So what was the result of our test?
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  • HoneyTribeStudiosHoneyTribeStudios Member Posts: 1,792
    *your test
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