 Quake Builder Lite  Just hit the app store, how many downloads on day one?

StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
edited November -1 in Announce Your Game!
Morning from sunny London in UK.

A slimmed down version of Quake Builder has just been approved.

Quake Builder Lite.
(Build towers, survive earthquakes and attacks from some 'unhappy' birds)
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quake-builder/id355345146?mt=8

how many downloads do you think it will get on day 1?
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  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    Morning from grey Newbury in the UK. Im going for the 3rd catergory.
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  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    I'm thinking some where around 600 ....
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    I think I've failed to get on the new releases page with both the full and lite versions which sucks..

    The full version, I set my release day to 2 days after it was approved.

    The lite version, I set to the day it was approved...

    Just double checking, when people say the new releases section, they do mean, in the category. i.e. Games/Puzzles then under 'Release date'?
  • reddotincreddotinc Member Posts: 653
    Yes that is usually correct, however in our experience it is usually not until late in the evening (UK Time) or even the next day until you show up (It always appears to be a day behind).
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    cheers

    :-)
  • EastboundEastbound Member, BASIC Posts: 1,074
    $10 on 2500-5000
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    $10.00 very confident. Almost too confident! Are you steve jobs!
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    ok, day 1 sales.... 1446

    Eastbound where would you like to send your $10 :-)
  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    Nice one mate :D

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  • reddotincreddotinc Member Posts: 653
    Great job! Lets hope you break 2500 for today then :)
  • JuggerJugger Member, PRO Posts: 238
    Great job! :)
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    I am a winner :) Eastbound could always send that $10 my way. Ha. Congrats stormy
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  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    nope, my sales dropped significantly...

    I think that was more due to not being on some other popular websites main topics...

    but we shall see.

    Really hoping to do a good update on the game soon, to fix any niggling problems i.e. multitouch blocks, the randomness of level difficulty. Weird how I've had some feedback, people saying its too easy, others saying they can't get past level 1.
  • EastboundEastbound Member, BASIC Posts: 1,074
    Haha damn!
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    Its great seeing where my game comes up in the rankings around the world... for what ever reason its doing very well over in the Middle East...

    In Lebanon under Games/Puzzle its at No.22
    Saudi Arabia 23,
    Israel 36,

    then
    United Kingdom 87 for the free one 89 for paid.
    United States 100

    getting similar rankings under simulation.

    Seem to have a chart position in every country, albeit pretty low down.

    Its a shame your sales don't update as quickly as the chart position.

    I'm using the demo of AppViz, plus registered for free with Appylizer, which works in the program to see the rankings. Great bit of software, will definitely buy when my 30 days are up.
  • beefy_clyrobeefy_clyro Member Posts: 5,394
    stormy, check this out;

    http://www.appannie.com/company/stormystudio/

    This is your 3 apps positions, it shows a lot more than the top 200 like appfigures does, not sure on what appviz do
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  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    Beefy, thanks for that, looks like a nice site. (have just bookmarked)

    Similar to what appviz does...

    though appviz I think possibly offers more, as it shows your ranking in countries around the world, plus you can browse all your reviews, see your sales, revenue, and upgrades
  • AfterBurnettAfterBurnett Member Posts: 3,474
    You seem to be doing well, Stormy! Well done!
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    not seeing the benefit yet.

    free downloads yesterday = 944.

    actualy paid sales = 11

    Won't retire just yet.

    Having problems getting the multi-touch blocks doing what I want.
  • BarkBarkCoBarkBarkCo Member Posts: 1,400
    @Stormy, Check out the my latest update to my 1-tocuh demo. I fixed the bugs from before by using some of firemaple's logic for the rotation.

    http://gamesalad.com/game/play/56582
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    Update on sales,

    the lite version has been out for about 17 days now (I think)

    and in total, in sales.

    It has sold (free)

    a lovely 11381

    Averaging 500 day at the moment.

    The paid version dips from 20 to 5 sales a day...

    @barkbark. Cool will take a look, many thanks more the message.
  • Rob2Rob2 Member Posts: 2,402
    well done..must be great having your app on so many devices.
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    yeah its cool...just need to work out how to get the 11,000 people to give me lots of money each... :-)
  • AfterBurnettAfterBurnett Member Posts: 3,474
    stormystudio said:
    Morning from sunny London in UK.

    Don't lie... your nose will grow :P
  • synthesissynthesis Member Posts: 1,693
    @ Stormy...

    Your app is shown on the release date that you set. Then within that release date...all apps are organized alphabetically. If you want to be high on the list...start your app name with a number. If you want to be low on the release date list...name it "ZZZzzapp".

    Re: foreign (non-US) sales...
    I wouldn't take too much stock in high rank placement in the obscure countries. In Malta we made it to #10 in Lifestyle in the first week for our Rum Connoisseur app and #337 overall. To do that...we had 1 sale there. I guess there aren't a lot of users in Malta and 1 of the 3 users there bought our app. 5 weeks later we are still in the top 250 ranks there. We had a similar experience in the Czech Republic.

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  • BarkBarkCoBarkBarkCo Member Posts: 1,400
    stormystudio said:
    yeah its cool...just need to work out how to get the 11,000 people to give me lots of money each... :-)

    Invest in getting your app coded on a real platform and introduce ads for the free version.

    Hopefully GS adds iAd support soon...for the rest of us!

    By "rest of us" I mean offer it for the express licence, or drop the PRO price.
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    @Synthesis, yeah I know it does not take many downloads to get up the charts in obscure countries, e.g. I've been high up in Lebanon, Russia, constantly high up in Kuwait. May not mean a tonne of sales but feels good to see it ranked anywhere really. Also noticed for a while the free version was getting around 450 downloads in the US, then around 100 in Kuwait, then the UK, Australia etc etc... so being in the chart must of sparked some sales in Kuwait and it moved up for a while.

    @ Bark Bark, that could be the way forward.

    Also I've just upped the price of my paid version to see how that effects sales, if it halves them or not. Only upped it to level 2.
  • iBlueRacooniBlueRacoon Member Posts: 12
    lol'd at the bet... i'll take the $ 10 lol! but nice game!!
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    glad you like the game....
    maybe I will make the game $10 :-)

    need to get cracking on an update for the game really.... bit busy doing other stuff... frustrating not having enough hours in the day to do GameSalad, normal job and have enough spare time to maintain a front that I'm really not a geek...
  • StormyStudioStormyStudio United KingdomMember Posts: 3,989
    Update....

    Free Sales, now up to 34,000 ..... hoping to hit, 100,000 by December...

    Paid sales vary from 5 to 15... at the moment.

    Will do an update soon.
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