Hello everyone,
My Corona-made game, Doodle Dash! 1.2 is being featured on OpenFeint’s FreeGameOfTheDay.com right now, so from 5pm today until 5pm tomorrow, the app will be free to download.
You can view it here: http://www.freegameoftheday.com/
For those who do download it, PLEASE leave me a rating/review… thanks a lot!
Jonathan Beebe
http://beebegames.tumblr.com/ [import]uid: 7849 topic_id: 1780 reply_id: 301780[/import]
Excellent ! Congratulations !
Read the Interview at http://bit.ly/anrCEO.
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Carlos [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 1780 reply_id: 5286[/import]
Thanks Jonathan for making your app free for the people, even if it is just for one day.
I think that it is a good way to market an app. How long did it took from signing up to be the app of the day?
@Carlos: FreeGameOfTheDay Is not an award 
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@MikeHart: Thanks for taking notice. I submitted Doodle Dash! as soon as 1.1 went live, and it didn’t get featured until 1.2 was approved so I’d say about 2-3 weeks. I initially wasn’t putting my hopes in getting accepted so I sort of filled out the form and forgot about it until they ended up contacting me. With that said, I’m not sure of the exact day I submitted it–but 2-3 weeks sounds like a safe bet.
Also, while FreeGameOfTheDay.com isn’t an award, they do screen your app for quality assurance and make sure it integrates well with OpenFeint, so I consider it an achievement nonetheless… so I think that’s what Carlos was getting at with his congratulations.
To put it into perspective, the FGOTD promotion has only been going on for 5 and a half hours now and already I have had over 3,593 new people added to my OpenFeint leaderboard since then (it was at like 29 before the promotion). So that’s a pretty good indicator at how many people are playing the game, and that’s only the people who chose to ‘Enable OpenFeint’ when they first installed it… so… I DEFINITELY consider being accepted by FGOTD an achievement, if anything a stepping stone.
I’m not making any money directly from the promotion day, but it should have an impact on the momentum (I’ll post it as another thread once the promotion is over and any boost in sales has died down).
Another thing is that I’m getting A LOT of ratings/reviews… and I think that’s important for boosting your AppStore ranking and making it more visible to people when it DOES go back to paid status.
@Caros: Thanks for posting the interview and for promoting it on Twitter/Facebook, etc!
Take care everyone, and if you decide to download Doodle Dash! please post a rating/review!
Jonathan Beebe
http://beebegames.tumblr.com/ [import]uid: 7849 topic_id: 1780 reply_id: 5291[/import]
great news and really well done…but bit of a panic…touching your link to openfeint just brings up a white screen on 3GS and iPad!! [import]uid: 6086 topic_id: 1780 reply_id: 5294[/import]
@Rob2: I don’t have a 3GS or an iPad… that’s strange it’s the first time I heard of that problem. What button are you pressing in the game? Perhaps when you tried it out OpenFeint was having server problems or something…
That’s pretty scary, would you mind testing again to let me know if OpenFeint is still doing that? Since the code for OpenFeint is pretty simple in Corona, I don’t see why it would react differently on a 3GS or iPad as opposed to a 3G or iTouch 2G, or iTouch 1G… [import]uid: 7849 topic_id: 1780 reply_id: 5304[/import]
yep it seems ok now…phew…for a few hours (maybe 3) when I touched your label/button (view high scores etc) on the opening screen it just switched to a blank page. It really is a great little game [import]uid: 6086 topic_id: 1780 reply_id: 5305[/import]
definitely seems all ok now…sorry to have given you a scare! [import]uid: 6086 topic_id: 1780 reply_id: 5306[/import]