Monkey Preschool Lunchbox -- promo codes inside for parents :)

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Monkey Preschool Lunchbox -- promo codes inside for parents :)

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Started 2 years ago by malphigian
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malphigian
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We just released Monkey Preschool Lunchbox:

Web Site: http://thup.com/preschool/
App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=328205875&mt=8

For our first iPhone game we decided to do something small for younger kids. The two of us who developed this project both have 3 year olds, and this game was designed for them first and foremost :). The age range is roughly 2 to 5. If any of you have kids who might want to check it out, here's a few promo codes:
HK4JAMEFLP4J
6L3W7KEF7E64
W64XEXF4M94R
7Y7AH3J4TN39
ARFM9N73R9TN

We had a great experience with Cocos2d and, I might add, the Cocos2d community. I asked a lot of hairbrained questions which were answered with patience. I did manage to help out a little (with a test case for the bug in 8.0 which was caused crashes in ActionManager), but I hope to do more for the Cocos2d project in the future. This is a great resource for developers, and I'm glad we chose it over rival closed source "professional" frameworks.

Screenshots:

Video:

Looking forward to our next Cocos2d project where we'll be aiming for adults (or at least people who can read! :P).

Posted 2 years ago #
malphigian
Member

I know our game isn't of much interest to most posters here (unless there are some 3 year old iPhone devs around), but I thought I'd mention that the game has been selling pretty well.

We've peeked up into the top 100 paid apps a few times.

I do have to say I am looking forward to doing a game for adults next though :).

Posted 2 years ago #
Codemattic
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well it looks really cute! congrats on the sales - Im glad that a kid game can do well in the app store.

Posted 2 years ago #
PhilM
Member

Thats very interesting news that pre-school learning apps can do well. Congrats. And I like the graphics.

Posted 2 years ago #
malphigian
Member

The universal app version of Monkey Preschool Lunchbox was just approved.

I was pretty nervous about taking the universal app approach, since so many developers seem to be releasing separate iPad versions. Since it's basically just a graphics upgrade, my thinking was in our market (kid's games) we might get irate reviews if we tried to charge separately for iPad. I'm hoping releasing the universal version for the same price will help to keep our sales running well into the future.

As a general update on the app: we've been the #1 preschool game in the U.S. app store for 6 months now. There's no category for preschool obviously, but we're the first one people find. This usually translates to somewhere around the #6 position in Games/Kids and the #2 position in Games/Education). It's been a big success for us, just trying to determine how to keep it up there :).

In comparison our other preschool app did only kind of okay (despite also getting featured by Apple) and has only a small number of sales a day at this point. Definitely helps to highlight the fickleness of the app store, but it's not stopping us from working on a third one anyway.

Posted 2 years ago #

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