Bonsai Master Studio

glynius

Hi everybody, this is our second app made with Gamesalad.

Relax and release your creativity with this unique application.
Bonsai Master Studio focuses on the artistic part of the bonsai art. No special knowledge is necessary here to create a stunning bonsai.
At 8 simple steps, starting from
an empty Japanese room, create a masterpiece and share it with us on Facebook, win competitions for the best presentation,
send it to your friends or use it
as a background image for your devices or computer. Tons of selections to combine hundreds
of elements and keep you creative forever. Become a Bonsai Artist with this amazing tool, even if you ever liked these small living masterpieces, but you couldn't grow a real one. Even if you are already a bonsai enthusiast, you will find this application very relaxing and useful.

-Walter Pall's trees preset and cleared of leaves
-Selection of beautiful classic bonsai pots
-Selection of leaves for painting on trees, with small or big leaves according to your wish.
-Select and paint fruits, also small or big fruits can be painted.
-Select and paint ground cover plants.
-Selection of original Japanese rooms (Tokonoma)
-Selection of accents plants.
-Selection of original Japanese scrolls for decorating.
Step by Step help.
Video tutorial also available.
Easy to use and efficient Zoom in and out system

Based on creations of the world-wide famous bonsai artist Walter Pall.













IPHONE
https://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/bonsai-master/id569245426?mt=8&ls=1

IPAD
https://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/bonsai-master-studio-hd/id558313240?mt=8&ls=1

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bonsai-Master-Studio/361655170579040

Special thanks to this forum for helping me out.
Also i would like to thank, MotherHoose for helping me with his suggestions!

Promo Codes:

Iphone
N6YP7NEY3WNT
LHAW6YKXR3MK
REYPTM9LXWPN
R6LYK4R6WF44
763E3P79WYM7

Ipad
44ATHKNLFM9Y
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X7EPK3YE9AX3
7YNYNY794W34


Hope you enjoy it

nikkon

great and extremely original app. using promo code - X7EPK3YE9AX3

How did you implement the options to share on facebook and send to a friend? (I didnt think gamesalad had the ability to do this)

Or do you just get the user to do a screencrap - home + power buttons?

glynius

Hi, glad you like it...
As you allready know gamesalad does not have the option to screengrab, so i make an explanation of how to use the home+power button for screengrab.

gyroscope

@glynius

Great idea, looks interesting with excellent graphics; hope it's a success for you. :-)

I would have loved to have check it out, but all the iPad promo codes have been used; ah well. (People who take promo codes without letting you know are selfish, in my opinion, I had that when I was giving away promo codes...)

glynius

Thanks gyroscope...
Unfortunately sales are not going as i wished, from 5-10 sales per day, i have also reduced the price at half, but it seems that people are not interested on bonsai. It's a pity because a lot of work had to be done for this app.
You have a pm for your promo code.

hotMagic

I'll buy it. The other bonsai games on the store aren't nearly as pretty.

hotMagic

BTW @glynius did you tweak your keywords. It doesnt come up in the pages if you just search bonsai. And remember sometimes US people will search bonzai and variations like that!

dayofjackal

Have you considered creating a social media campaign around facebook and twitter? Maybe set up a blog about bonsai and link back to that in order to build a community and then push the game to them? A ready made base of people interested in the subject, should see an increased conversion rate in sales.

glynius

BTW @glynius did you tweak your keywords. It doesnt come up in the pages if you just search bonsai. And remember sometimes US people will search bonzai and variations like that!

Really? I'll try out to tweak keywords...thanks

glynius

Have you considered creating a social media campaign around facebook and twitter? Maybe set up a blog about bonsai and link back to that in order to build a community and then push the game to them? A ready made base of people interested in the subject, should see an increased conversion rate in sales.

I posted the app to many facebook pages and social media, but it seems that people that are interested on bonsai, most of them, are not interested on technology. It is really not going well, maybe 1-4 sales per day...I am already creating my next game which i wish it will go much better.

IsabelleK

It looks amazing! I mean really, really amazing!

glynius

We will release an update the following days, we replaced all the timers (the were hundreds of them) with what @domenius suggests an the following link
http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/44707/timers-are-for-chumps-gs-optimization-tips/p1

Great improvement on painting elements, all of them were spawning different actors
according to timers. Now it runs smoothly and also we've noticed much less crashes.

glynius

Hey people, we earn 100bucks per month so far, not as wished of course...we translated all the information and keywords to japanese, chinese and russian, still waiting for approval from apple, hope it goes better.

glynius

After some facebook promotion and setting the app free for 2 days, we got 18.000 downloads only in the first day of free offer. is this good or it is always like this?

glynius

Greetings everyone, i would like to share with you the current stats for my app and tell me of how you think is going according to your experience, since it is my first app that makes some money, i would like to know how apps goes usually.
So, since October we have the following for ipad and iphone versions.

19.044 downloads (some days free exploded the downloads, but no earnings)
854.50$ profit

Featured everyday at least to one country, on entertainment whats hot, in positions from 160 to 13. It stayed for 1 week almost on what's top of australia, at 13nth position.
So, all these are good signs, or it is usually like this?

Braydon_SFX

Not bad! 18,000 downloads in one day is pretty good.

glynius

Thanks @Braydon_SFX,
it was only for one day, after this free day, i got 80 sales in one day, this was my top day. My hope is that with an android version i will have more downloads

Elfizm

18k downloads is very cool in one day good job.

CORE Game

Great Job ! keep it up @glynius! btw I like the idea and the graphics.

glynius

Thanks, i noticed that i got a lot of sales for 2 weeks that my app was featured on top 50 of Australia's entertainment what's hot. After that the sales dropped down to 10 sales per day, not quite good. I got a lot of feedback from customers, i have to make all the app from the beggining, now i have a lot more experience, so i must do the app from scratch to eliminate crashes and work again with the ui and gameplay. This app was a great lesson for me.

glynius

Update:
We released a free day for Bonsai Master Studio, the downloads was 26.000 in a single day, and according to apptrace we went from 45.000 position to 375 rank position...
the revenue so far, is not anything special, we have earned 1400$ from release date and most of them after another free day...we will see how much will be the revenue the following days. I don't know if all of the above are success or not, but since it is my second app, i feel quite happy, and all of this, thanks to gamesalad!

glynius

Second and last free day has 58.000 downloads.