Android revenues

[wmdAndrew]

We started making our own framework for over a year. Our game All Mighty RTS is built on that framework. Unless you're a OpenGL guru I wouldn't recommend going down that path Use libGDX. I would estimate it would take us about 1/4 of the time to make All Mighty RTS over again in libGDX. The end product would have much better performance though (we debate doing this)

You do have to put in some physics (at least for 3D), but collisions are set up for you.

[Magnesus]

How do you publish to AppChina and App Store Connect - is there English version or do you use translator (or maybe know Mandarin?)?

[Saurav]

I use Chrome, which can translate the website in-line. I would consider it impossible without it. I started out trying it with Firefox, with one tab opened on Google Translate, copy-pasting everything - that gets very tedious very quickly

[wmdAndrew]

if you google 'appchina' there is a 'translate' link under the main link.This runs it through google translate in any browser I believe

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.appchina.com/&ei=ox_NTp_lHoG0iQLssrSLDA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dappchina%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D761%26prmd%3Dimvns

never published there so I can't tell you much more

[Magnesus]

Thanks. I'll try it next week. Alternative markets seem to increase my admob revenue a little (but maybe it's just a coincidence).

[Magnesus]

I still have problem with AppChina. They say I should "Re-upload the package" - why and how? It's a really frustrating market I have to say. Had anyone this problem with appchina?

[tamizzh]

I guess have some interesting figures ,

My first game "Bubbly Fish" a free game supported by ads use to make around $1 per day. I have unpublish Bubbly Fish .
My second game "Grenadier" , I released two versions of it an Ad-Supported version and a Pro version which is same as the lite version minus the Ads.

I released Grenadier (both versions) on June 14th 2011,with 20 levels, currently the game has 48 levels.
Here are the details of how the game is doing

Grenadier :
Download Count : 250k+
Average Market rating : 4.21
Average Revenue : $650-700 per month ( Using Ads ,I've tried Admob and Inmobi... found InMobi works best in terms of revenue even though the fill rate is low)

Grenadier Pro:
Download Count : 1K+
Market rating : 4.15
Average Revenue : $150 per month

[Magnesus]

Nice. I get only $50-60 with my three games (Spider Solitaire makes $45, Memory Owl HD makes 10$, Marble Lines HD only $1 but it's new and unpolished) right now. It helps a little though (I have my own company and every penny counts).

Could you share how did you advertise Grenadier?

[tamizzh]

Hi magnesus ,
I dint do any advertising for grenadier. I think I just got lucky.
Grenadier was listed "trending apps" for a week ,that boosted the download count

[Saurav]

Those are excellent numbers. Bus Jumper is at around 80k downloads, averaging $40-80 a month. For the paid version, I'm lucky if I get 2 sales a month