Apologies for making you feel like that. I hope you extend the same courtesy to Robert. Peace!
PS. I said lets move on with the debate. I didn’t ask you to leave. Who am I? I’m not the boss around here… [import]uid: 11904 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 16801[/import]
ah ok great i’ll stay thanks!
well how about the idea that not putting in ads is actually a good move because then more people would download it then after it becomes #1 then you put in ads?
Also another point to discuss is why can’t Ansca just give the ability for developers to put in admob?
Why does there have to be Red Tape involved? [import]uid: 8561 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 16802[/import]
I have a better idea. Let’s read the game’s comments and post awesome ones, like this one from “your bestest friend”:
“The person who made this must be crazy smart!!! I wish I could be friends with this guy!!” [import]uid: 12108 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 16804[/import]
Why would that help? It’s already #1 lol…
but that is a great comment! 
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Hey Robert…
Great Job!!! Congratulations on the HUGE success.
Don’t listen to most of this gibberish :). Your app is just fine.
I recommend that you begin work on a sequel called Bubble Ball Deluxe. Build about 60 levels in it ranging from super easy to hard. Add maybe 2 more unique controls to the puzzle and then release that for $0.99. In the meantime…add about 5 levels a month to your free version.
Then when your deluxe version is ready…implement an advertisement page and link to the deluxe version in your free app that invites some of your 2M users to “check it out”.
If all goes well…you will have your future college tuition earned by summer break.
With 2M+ users…this could easily equate to at least $100K in a pay version that offered lots of puzzles. Find a buddy at school to do some cool art (like backgrounds and buttons) for you and you’re set!
Good luck with the game. Hope it stays cool for you on the appstore! [import]uid: 9492 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 16809[/import]
Now that’s what I’m talking about!!! Great post & suggestions! [import]uid: 11904 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 16810[/import]
Ok let me give some advice…get Ansca to build you a special version just for you that will allow you to insert admob ads…Now that will help the kid out immensly and he doesn’t even have to do that much work [import]uid: 8561 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 16812[/import]
Wow! Good morning America coverage ought to push the counter even higher.!!! Thats amazing Robert. Well done. [import]uid: 11904 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 16831[/import]
Such a great interview! So happy for you and your success! Here’s hoping you get to 10 million!!! [import]uid: 8444 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 16836[/import]
I just saw an interview with the developer of Bubble Ball!
Thankfully he seems very intelligent and stable and I do believe this unfortunate bad luck with not being
able to profit directly from ads doesn’t appear to be affecting him in an adverse way. I know I would
have felt horrible for a long long time…
But they said if he charged 0.99 he would have made 2 million dollars!
That is really stupid because if he charged 0.99 it probably would not have been downloaded that many times. But what I was saying that if he was able to place ads in it he would have made a lot of money is much more accurate because the game would still have been free.
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Awesome interview.
Wish I had Corona when I was 14. So much fun! [import]uid: 8192 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 16961[/import]
Apple is getting really close to having the 10 billionth app downloaded – with the number of people who are downloading Bubble Ball right now, there’s probably a pretty good chance that app could be the one.
If so it would give it another big boost because I think (based on what I remember from the last time Apple did this) they will announce the name of the person who hit the 10 billion mark and which app they downloaded.
Wait for iiiiiiiiittt…
Jay [import]uid: 9440 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 17153[/import]
Let’s just hope it’s not some “Adult themed app” or even worse Angry Birds! lol [import]uid: 8561 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 17246[/import]
I’m a bit late adding to this thread, but congratulations Robert, and congratulations Ansca and the entire team… I’m sure you’re thrilled to see Corona “in the news” as a result.
This is great for all of us… not so much because Bubble Ball has millions of downloads and growing, but because this clearly elevates Corona to a professional-class mobile development platform (yes yes, I know it already was in our eyes, as faithful Corona developers, but I’m sure that alot of “elites” out there scoffed at the idea of Corona… most likely the developers who hand-code in XCode with large teams and large budgets. While the success of Bubble Ball will likely not change their minds, it certainly proves what Corona can do.
Anyway, we should all be thrilled that this brings more attention to Corona… which means more users, more money (to Ansca) and thus more features, faster releases, etc. etc.
This being said, I think we can all admit that Bubble Ball is pretty “simple”, both technically and graphically. This is not meant to be a criticism, just a basic observation. Personally (note to Ansca) I hope the future of Corona includes some more robust inner core functions to help us develop games that are more graphically and physically intensive than Bubble Ball… “everyday” kind of functions such as finding angles between objects, distances, etc., coded at the core level so we don’t need to write our own functions for this stuff. Also, ideally, optimizations to the Box2D and collision core, as many as can be made. And overall speed enhancements across the board. While Corona is not slow by any means, the closer it can come to matching XCode in raw efficiency, the better.
Just my 2 cents… I apologize if this is off-topic for the thread. Again, congrats to Robert and his success. Personally I’m a bit tired of Angry Birds at this point; great as it is/was, breaking down structures and killing pigs gets old after awhile. 
Brent
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Hi Brent
Nice post!
The one big feature above all the others that you mentioned is being able to include iads because even though Naygames isn’t interested in ads (he’s basically saying nay to ads whichj is ironic because it seems everyone is doing their best exploiting him for advertising purposes lol) I have a feeling most people want to make money on free apps that way. So it also proves what Corona can’t do.
One thing I don’t understand about Angry Balls is how can it stay #1 for this long? That would mean that it’s getting so many new downloads everyday and you would think by this time everyone with an iphone would have gotten it already. It boggles the mind doesn’t it? [import]uid: 8561 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 17331[/import]
Just heard them talking about Robert on Italian radio last night. Amazing. Proud of you Robert and Ansca. [import]uid: 8192 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 17733[/import]
the funniest quote I’ve seen is in the UK Daily Mail
“Robert Nav’s game even outsold the adventure game Angry Birds”
obviously several things wrong with that sentence!
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just shows how journalists just take a story from somewhere else and change a few words, and eventually it’s not actually true anymore 
congratulations to Robert though, looking forward to seeing what’s next
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J. A. Whye (Jay Jennings) is mentioned at the bottom of the CNN article too!
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/01/21/bubble.ball.app/
haha. everybody’s famous! [import]uid: 8444 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 17890[/import]
everyone’s famous but nobody is making any money hehehe…
5 million+ downloads! anyone know about how much he would have made if he could have used ads? [import]uid: 8561 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 17970[/import]
One Billion Gazillion Dollars [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 5030 reply_id: 17971[/import]