Device Seeding Yay!
So I received my free Nexus One from Google 2 days ago. I received this as part of their Device Seeding Program for Top Android Market Developers, unfortunately I already have a Nexus one that I enjoy very much. So I figured I would try and sell this new Nexus One on eBay, I have [...]
Replica Island
Just wanted to comment on a new Android game Replica Island I found out about this game via Gizmodo and am very impressed, not only is this a high quality Android game that is free it is also Open Source I initially assumed that the game must have been using the ndk because of the [...]
scum of the earth
scum of the earth @androidwarezcom ripping off independent developers like me who use the 70 cents I get from a sale to support my family… thanks @alsutton for getting the word out Yeah I visited the site to see if anything of mine was on it, but I didn’t get the chance to find out, [...]
Cancellations Blah
Just wanted to post a quick note that some people may be curious about. About 20% of all orders I receive are canceled. Yup, 1 out of every 5 at least. I don’t fully understand why considering I have rather functional free versions of my games, but I still see cancellations quite often. I am [...]
BreakTheBlocks Lite Updated
Hello all, I released an update for BreakTheBlocks Lite this past weekend. The main update was switching advertising providers from Admob to the beta for Google Adsense for Mobile Applications. I have received some feedback regarding “lag” in this game. The main thing that can be done to prevent this lag is kill unneeded tasks [...]
Backupify scares me now
So I have heard of the service offered at backupify.com, free backup of gmail, google docs, and a whole slew of online services. I would definitely like to be able to use this service, but after my first night I am now very cautious of it. I opted for gmail backup, it is listed as [...]
PingPong Lite hits half a million downloads :)
Tonight PingPong Lite hit half a million downloads PingPong Pro is the paid version of this game. It is mostly the same game but has no ads and allows for fullscreen play. PingPong Pro sits in the 500-1000 downloads category on the market which is a 0.2% conversion rate from users of the version. Thanks [...]
Day 1 of ads…
Day 1 of ads on two of my most popular free games and all I can think is why did I not do this sooner? Seriously the amount of money brought in today is only a fraction of what I make daily from app sales but will definitely be significant over time. I should have [...]
Updated PingPong, testing ads
Tonight I uploaded updates for PingPong, both the pro($0.99) and lite(free) versions have been updated being built with the Android 1.6 sdk but with the MinSDK set to Android 1.5 so that the majority of Android users will now have access to these games again including users of the HTC Tattoo. Also I’m trying out [...]
1 Million Downloads (and a new web site)
On Sunday February 14th, 2010 I had my first application ever to reach over 1 million downloads, BreakTheBlocks Here is what my developers console shows as of today (Tuesday Feb 16, 2010) Over 1 million people have downloaded this game, and half of them still have it installed on their phone Yes, this is a [...]