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Sir Revs-a-Lot + Promo Codes

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Started 2 years ago by SmallMike
Latest reply from reedjsmith

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SmallMike
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Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all the help in completing our current game. These forums are indispensable. Below are 10 promo codes. Leave a review if you like it and please let me know if there are any problems!

The goal of the game is to stay in the air as long as possible and earn combos by destroying enemies.

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iTunes URL: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=318210353&mt=8

Promo Codes:
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43EJHYXE9RRF
KPWYFTXEW634
EP66KXF4HTNW
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JM3T36JXEHNX
N4LPXTRKMWM6
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Thanks,
Mike

Posted 2 years ago #
leftright
Member

Used: N4LPXTRKMWM6

Just downloaded Sir-Rev. Nice job. Left a 5 stars review.

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

Holy fun!!! I just played it for the first time. This game is a total blast! My son is playing it now and he loves it. Somehow he's much better than me. 5 stars coming your way SmallMike. Excellent job.

Posted 2 years ago #
SmallMike
Member

Thanks jd!

I can't tell you how annoyed I am with Apple right now. The game didn't show up on the App Store until late last night. Already it is on the third page of new releases on the phone, which wouldn't bother me so much if a game that showed up yesterday morning wasn't still in the middle of the first page. Sorting by date but not time for new releases is just a terrible idea, particularly since their caching is pretty severe. Maybe I should have called it "Awesome Revs-a-lot".

Anyhow, thanks for playing. Glad you liked it!

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

That sucks because I think the game could gain traction. There's nothing negative I found with it and I'm a cynic:) Looks like you put in some time customizing OF too. How much effort was it to get alerts to show on top? I need to do what you did with the Initial OF Screen too. The default one is kind of in your face and confusing to people who don't know what it is.

Posted 2 years ago #
SmallMike
Member

The custom notifications were fairly easy. The OpenFeint api is pretty good. I pretty much just flipped the backgrounds used for the regular notifications, then loaded it into a Sprite. Beyond that it was just like animating any other CocosNode. My notifications all looks the same, whereas the default achievement notifications are larger and have custom icons. You can do that with the custom notifications, but I preferred it to be less obtrusive.

- Mike

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

Some dude just got 99 bounces ;) He must be so PO'd.

Posted 2 years ago #
SmallMike
Member

Good gravy! I thought it would be a while before anyone got that high. I never got past 42 without tweaking variables for testing.

Posted 2 years ago #
sserye
Member

Don't worry anymore.... i just noticed Apple placed your Game in the New and Noteworthy section of AppStore USA....

Congrats!!!!

Posted 2 years ago #
SmallMike
Member

Holy crap-sauce! Thanks for letting me know. I guess my next update is a little more pressing now. It will interesting to finally see what kind of affect being featured has. Also, they released 3.1 today with some App Store enhancements. Hopefully that will equal more eyes.

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

Congrats. Let us know what happens to your numbers.

Posted 2 years ago #
SmallMike
Member

I'll definitely put together an overview of the numbers in a week or two. Unless of course it is an embarrassing failure. Alright, I'll do it in that case as well, I'll just cry as I type up the report.

Posted 2 years ago #
tombo
Member

Don't get discouraged man! I just bought it too (and am also a huge tightwad) so that should be a good sign right? Not to mention its fun!

Also just curious - the scope of this looks similar to what me and my extremely lazy graphics buddy are working hoping to finish up with. What was your development time roughly?

Posted 2 years ago #
SmallMike
Member

It's hard to say what the actual development time was. I started working on it in June, but part time and not consistently. I have a small company that does contract work usually so the number of hours I put into it in any given week varied greatly. The last 3 weeks of development were full time but the final week was mostly spent tweaking OpenFeint.

Posted 2 years ago #
SmallMike
Member

We submitted our first update this weekend. The bulk of the work was performance enhancements for 3.1 (custom Director using CADisplayLink) and a bug fix for a rare crash.

There is one new gameplay feature though: Steal Old Man Allard's Fuel. After level four you get one chance per level to refuel. You have to hit the pump as Old Man Allard rolls by. If you steal his fuel 5 times in one game you get the "Old Man Allard's Fuel" achievement.

I'll post some promo codes when the update is approved.

Posted 2 years ago #
SmallMike
Member

We have more promo codes now that our update has been approved. Here are a few if anyone wants to try it out. I only posted a five since I'm not sure anyone will see this thread. Feel free to ask for more if they get used up.

Please leave a review if you like it!

JETHHKYYPJMJ
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9PWL33LNE44W
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Posted 2 years ago #
sserye
Member

Thanks, finally i got one. Last time i missed.

Could you please share your experience about being feature by Apple?

All the best,

Posted 2 years ago #
SmallMike
Member

I'm going to put together some detailed sales statistics in a few weeks after our Lite version has been released and a couple more updates to the full version. But the short story for anyone interested:

1.) Being featured helped to the tune of 300 - 400 sales a day. Good, but not great since we knew it wasn't popular enough to maintain after falling off the featured list.
2.) The featured list on the device is far more important than on the PC (not exactly news there). We are no longer featured on the device App Store, but are in iTunes on the PC. The sales have dropped to about 40 - 50 a day.
3.) With about 2,400 downloads, we have had 45 reviews. That's just under 2% of users leaving reviews. I put a feature in our latest update that will ask a user if they want to leave a review if they have had the game installed for over a week AND played it at least 7 times. It will be interesting to see if that helps.
4.) We put out one update while we were still featured. I sent a professionally worded request to Apple for an expedited review, in which I mentioned we were featured. The update was approved in 2 business days.

Like I said, in a few weeks I'll put together something more formal with some nice charts and graphs.

- Mike

Posted 2 years ago #
yohann305
Member

@Mike, awesome info, looking forward to see some detailed statistics

Posted 2 years ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

The device appstore is everything now. Which is too bad - bc I think users see fewer promoted apps on the device than on PC iTunes - so the store will skew even more to a handful at top and the drop-off will be even more severe.

Posted 2 years ago #
SmallMike
Member

Agreed. There are far fewer spots. Even when our game was featured it started near the bottom of the list and was only there for a week. Whereas other apps, like Sheep Launcher, seem to have been there for 2-3 weeks. But I really can't complain. Most people don't even get that opportunity and maybe staying on the list is based on sales (though I would think that is what the "What's Hot" list is for).

Posted 2 years ago #
reedjsmith
Member

Can you give us an update on how sales have been?

Posted 1 year ago #

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