cocos2d for iPhone

A fast, easy to use, free, and community supported 2D game engine

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   Carpy
   Member

   Well for those that wanted to know about the apple store here's some info i can give you. I personally would have loved to know this from someone else when i was programming my game. All the sales are from USA, they don't count the rest of the world.

   *To be in the top 80 games you need to sell about 700 copies per day

   *Being in the last page of the strategy genre takes about 60-70 copies a day.

   *if you sell less than 15 copies a day you will not be in any listing at all

   *Until you hit at least the 2nd page of the strategy genre sales will be flaky and unstable. If you manage to reach the first 2 pages the sales will stabilize and you can count on getting the same amount of money from one day to the other.

   *Webpage reviews barely make any difference at all on sales. It seems the only way to make any money is to be hand picked by apple and put in one of those listings.

   *For a 1 dollar game, 60% of the income will come from USA and 40% from the rest of the world.

   *For a 4 dollar game 90% to 95% of the sales will come from USA.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Codemattic
   Moderator

   "I personally would have loved to know this from someone else when i was programming my game."

   I agree - thankyou very much for sharing.

   "Webpage reviews barely make any difference at all on sales."

   I suspected as much. I bet banner/admob/google/socialnetworking ads have little effect also.

   You played around with pricing. I think originally you charged $4 and then went to $2? Could you get a feel for how many more sales you got by lowering the price. Obviously if you halve the price you need to more than double the number of sales for it to be worth it.

   Originally you didnt have a lite version, now you do. How big a difference in sales do you think the lite version gave you?

   Also, any idea how sales will keep up when Apple takes you off of the first page? Already you are still on the first page, but you have to scroll once to see it.

   Anyway - congratulations! Lots of cocos games on the front page of AppStore now.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   gravity
   Member

   Thanks for this. I saw your app in the "What we're playing" section in the iTunes App Store.

   I haven't picked up your game yet, but from what I've seen, you deserve the success.

   Now me, the game I'm making is almost exactly like the #1 app in the store: gloBall. So yay, I get to release with all of the copy-cats trying to replicate that game. :(

   I do have some unique features that that game doesn't have though, so we'll see.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   anothernoobie
   Member

   Thanks for the valuable info! This is especially helpful for someone who's just venturing into the iPhone game market--like me. And yeah, let's put more Cocos games on AppStore's frontpage! :)

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   slipster216
   Moderator

   Ironically, Splat is in the top 100 music games (somewhere around #65) with about 2 sales a day. Different categories have drastically different thresholds, and I actually think that sales are not the only factor in play since my actual sales ranking is much lower in the category (about #300 on the list or so). So it seems that something else is pulling that app up in the list, perhaps it's 4.75 star rating?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Carpy
   Member

   Naw it's just plain sales, not even the money you made.

   The strategy category is a tough category to be in, most games are either there or on the action category. That's why 15 sales won't even put you in the top 100

   Posted 2 years ago #

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