All 3 adventure games by Fire Maple Games now available on Windows Phone Store!

CoronaCards (Corona in native apps) CoronaCards for WP8
#1

Hey all,

Just a quick note announcing that all 3 of our adventure games are now available on the Windows Phone Store!

I am very thankful to the whole CoronaLabs team for making it possible. So awesome!

I used some of my spare time from working on The Secret of Grisly Manor 2 to port them over :wink:

If you want to check them out, here are links to all three of our games, as well as our ā€œUltimate Adventure Collectionā€ which bundles the three games togetherĀ at a discount:
Ā 

The Secret of Grisly Manor

http://windowsphone.com/s?appId=0c1a61cb-2606-46d4-b104-b7d51f547bb0

The Lost City

http://windowsphone.com/s?appId=a2e9c624-7236-4cf9-8f03-dee6a727d482

The Hidden World

http://windowsphone.com/s?appId=e9391624-4461-44c7-83c4-6580b6a4186e

Fire Maple Games - Ultimate Adventure Collection

http://windowsphone.com/s?appId=7189370e-e927-492f-b900-2beb5a4c16ed

Thanks and Happy Halloween!

Joe

#2

Hi, Did you rename your Mosaika to hidden world?

#3

@rbm1155: Yeah, we were trying out a little rebranding experiment. Mosaika didnā€™t do nearly as well as the other two, just seeing if we could affect anything.

So many factors, and It could be a ton of things of course, but we figured the name might be a little too cryptic, not evocative enough of an adventure game. So we changed the name, the logo, and the icon to see if it would have any effect - it didnā€™t :slight_smile:

And donā€™t get me wrong, Mosaika did great. We just wanted to see what would happen if we tweaked some things.

#4

Good luck in the Windows Phone Store!

#5

Congrats on getting your apps published to theĀ WP8 store so quickly Joe!Ā  :slight_smile:

#6

congrats joe! i am right now trying to port christmas grooh to wp8 :slight_smile:

tell me how the window thing did work out for you.

#7

@dingo: Thanks, man!

Porting the games was pretty straightforward. Just had to remake all the .mp3 files as .oggs which only took a minute.

The only other thing I had to deal with was the size of the device. I am testing on the smaller Lumia phone - apparently the most popular Windows phone - and the smaller size was cropping off my HUD elements. So I reprogrammed part of my inventory system and everything was good to go.

As far as sales go, the 3 games plus the bundle have now been on sale for a month. Collectively I have 198 sales so far. I average between 1 and 13 sales a day.

Not sure if that is good, bad, or what can be expected.

The games are all $.99, and the bundle is $1.99

When Corona sent out the email announcing the ability to publish to Windows Phone 8, I ran out and got a cheapo Windows 8 laptop for $299, a Nokia Lumia phone for $69, and a SIM card for $25. CoronaCards is currently free with my Pro subscription.

With CoronaCards being free, I should have no problem breaking even on my investment.

However, when the free trial of CoronaCards runs out, Iā€™ll have to see if it is worth it or not to renew.

Everything on Coronaā€™s side went smoothly and was super easy to implement, the games play nicely on the fairly underpowered Lumia, but Iā€™m notĀ entirely sure if I can make 500$ a year with my games on the Windows Phone 8 store.

#8

thanks a lot for the infos joe!

Iā€™ve asked since your games are commercial and did very well on iOS, just to get a feeling a bit about the market. Do you know, did one of the games ever get featured?

Windows sales compared to your iOS/Androidā€¦wellā€¦how shall I sayā€¦ I guess its not really a market then? :slight_smile:

anyway, looking forward to your sequel, and hope family is doing well!

#9

@dingo:

None of my games have ever been featured on iOS or Android. Someday hopefully! :slight_smile:

Yeah, not sure if there is a market or not. Billions of people use Windows, right?

There has to be a market there somewhere, but I do not know anyone, or know anyone who knows anyone with a Windows phone.

And Iā€™m not sure if free/ads, freemium with IAP, or straight paid is the way to go either. Who knows.
Straight paid does ok for me on iOS/Android, not sure if that flies on Windows.

And maybe $200 a month is totally rocking it on the Windows market. I would hope not, but not sure how to tell otherwise. :slight_smile:

And thanks, family is doing great, and we are hard at work on GM2. I am deep into making the art right now!

#10

Did CoronaLabs say that the WP8 corona cards license being free with pro subscription, was just a temporary deal? I think a lot of people are assuming this to be a permanent deal.

#11

@elbowroomapps:

From the blog post:

We are also giving ALL current Pro and Enterprise developers a license of CoronaCards for WP8 (with the same expiration date as your existing Pro or Enterprise license).

So I assume it expires?

And the subscription price is fine on Coronaā€™s end, I certainly donā€™t mind supporting their efforts to open new markets, Iā€™m just not sure if my type of games, or my type of paid business model is the right fit for the Windows Phone Marketplace.

ā€‹Not sure if otherĀ devs are killing it on Windows Phone and I am missing the mark somehow?

#12

i think when having a pro license, you always get the wp8 coronacards license included.

@joe:

amazing how you did all that without getting featured! about your wp8 performanceā€¦ i hope to be wrong but i think youā€™re doing fine there. i just hoped that you would tell me like: ā€œyes, easy 200 downloads a dayā€ :slight_smile:

good luck with GM2! (i am slowly starting with a sequel of Grooh too :))

#13

Hey guys - we plan on always including support for WP8 (whether it is via CoronaCards or not) as part of Pro and Enterprise. So that wonā€™t change.

#14

Hi, Did you rename your Mosaika to hidden world?

#15

@rbm1155: Yeah, we were trying out a little rebranding experiment. Mosaika didnā€™t do nearly as well as the other two, just seeing if we could affect anything.

So many factors, and It could be a ton of things of course, but we figured the name might be a little too cryptic, not evocative enough of an adventure game. So we changed the name, the logo, and the icon to see if it would have any effect - it didnā€™t :slight_smile:

And donā€™t get me wrong, Mosaika did great. We just wanted to see what would happen if we tweaked some things.

#16

Good luck in the Windows Phone Store!

#17

Congrats on getting your apps published to theĀ WP8 store so quickly Joe!Ā  :slight_smile:

#18

congrats joe! i am right now trying to port christmas grooh to wp8 :slight_smile:

tell me how the window thing did work out for you.

#19

@dingo: Thanks, man!

Porting the games was pretty straightforward. Just had to remake all the .mp3 files as .oggs which only took a minute.

The only other thing I had to deal with was the size of the device. I am testing on the smaller Lumia phone - apparently the most popular Windows phone - and the smaller size was cropping off my HUD elements. So I reprogrammed part of my inventory system and everything was good to go.

As far as sales go, the 3 games plus the bundle have now been on sale for a month. Collectively I have 198 sales so far. I average between 1 and 13 sales a day.

Not sure if that is good, bad, or what can be expected.

The games are all $.99, and the bundle is $1.99

When Corona sent out the email announcing the ability to publish to Windows Phone 8, I ran out and got a cheapo Windows 8 laptop for $299, a Nokia Lumia phone for $69, and a SIM card for $25. CoronaCards is currently free with my Pro subscription.

With CoronaCards being free, I should have no problem breaking even on my investment.

However, when the free trial of CoronaCards runs out, Iā€™ll have to see if it is worth it or not to renew.

Everything on Coronaā€™s side went smoothly and was super easy to implement, the games play nicely on the fairly underpowered Lumia, but Iā€™m notĀ entirely sure if I can make 500$ a year with my games on the Windows Phone 8 store.

#20

thanks a lot for the infos joe!

Iā€™ve asked since your games are commercial and did very well on iOS, just to get a feeling a bit about the market. Do you know, did one of the games ever get featured?

Windows sales compared to your iOS/Androidā€¦wellā€¦how shall I sayā€¦ I guess its not really a market then? :slight_smile:

anyway, looking forward to your sequel, and hope family is doing well!