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Codemattic
Moderator
Apple gives games they like special placement in the AppStore. Whether its in a special category or the "What We're Playing" section.
"Moonlights" and "Quantum Collapse (RTS)" just got picked. I seem to remember "Castle Conflict" was on the front page briefly.
What other cocos games have been singled out by Apple?
[moderated: moved from cocosLive to cocos2d]
Steve Oldmeadow
Administrator
Light Wars, Last Cannon and Kyrzer Prologue.
Oh yes I've just saw the iYamato medium sized banner on US app store. It's not featured on the French store.
I've just realized that Moonlights has just appeared in "New and noteworthy" section, along with iYamato. Moonlights was featured on "Best Construction Puzzle Game", but that was just on iTunes store. I think the "New and noteworthy" apps also appear in iPhone app store, and this is a big difference because most of the sales come from the iPhone store IMO. I expect a lot from this, my feedback tomorrow on the Moonlights topic.
StickWars was listed from time to time in the "Staff Favorites" section in iTunes, but only after it had already been #1 paid app for a few weeks. It was exciting when it was listed on the first page of staff favorites, so when you landed on the AppStore in iTunes you'd see the icon in three places - #1 on paid list, #1 on free list, and in the staff favorites. I took a lot of screenshots back then. Unfortunately, that level of visibility was short lived :(.
I never found it listed as featured on the mobile AppStore.
Codemattic
Moderator
"I never found it listed as featured on the mobile AppStore."
thats an interesting point - I never use the mobile Appstore, only the Mac AppStore. Have cocos games been features in the mobile AppStore? How big a boost do you get from that? Is that better/worse than getting featured in the Mac/PC AppStore?
Codemattic, it basically hit #1 within...a few days? I think it was just SW was a game that was desperately needed on the app store that people where already familiar with, and it hit a sweet spot that way. The downloads for each day went something (roughly) like this...
130, 300, 800, 3200, and by day 5 it was like...8k and at that point it was somewhere in the top 10. So at least that is some form of encouragement for all developers...if are are lucky enough to happen on creating the perfect type of game, you don't need to waste time or money on your own marketing, because the AppStore will do it for you.
On the other hand, this only happens for one out of every...thousand? 10 thousand? games, so you just really have to create a game that stands out.
An a quick addition for anyone who might come across this later, I did not really market at all, and I did not have a Lite version available during this period (though the lite version later rose sales after my game was already in the top 10).
"Occurro!" was featured in "New and Noteworthy" in the main App Store & Games sections.
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