It's been a wild ride but we've finally had someone upload Thumbpark onto the Google Play marketplace.
Before I go further I want to thank all of the XDA members who gave some of their own time and experience to help with beta testing, this all couldn't have been possible without you.
For those who haven't been involved, Thumbpark is a social gaming platform with casual games that users can play either against a computer or match themselves against a real life opponent. You can play for free or you can spice things up by wagering real cash on the outcome of the games to make things more interesting.
Take a look at the store for screenshots and a bigger description - It's a free download so we'd love to get even more feedback from you guys, Rome wasn't built in a day!
I hope you have fun with it! Let me know how you find it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wThumbpark&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS53VGh1bWJwYXJrIl0
Ok you put time and effort into your games or apps but still cant seem to get downloads. You might even see a game or app similar to yours but for some reason they are charting but your not. There are over 100,000 developers and over a million apps on googleplay. What are they doing that your not?
1) Website- I see a lot of developers that have a single blog page for all their apps. Look at the format of google play and match your website as close as you can to what google play has. Why? Customers are use to a certain format and like things that look familiar . Think like a customer when building a website and put the same effort as you were in programming your apps.
2)Social Networking-Make a twitter and facebook account. Any app release you have or updates post them.You can even interact with customers and get feedback directly from them. Use this as a tool to learn from real people and adjust your game or app based on feedback.
3)Make Niche Apps- There is no way indie developers can match the power of big companies. Rather than try to take on gameloft or EA focus on niche apps. Small apps like car locators or how to cook books. Small apps like these have been know to get more downloads vs making a game going against a bigger company. Small focused apps or simple games with great graphics can draw people to your app.
4)Post in Forums- Post your game or app in several forums. Be careful as many forums are not really indie friendly. Most forums have a section where you can post games or apps away from where regular forum users cant see. Also you might run into jealous developers who have nothing better to do then degrade your game. Post in several forums to bring in users but remember this is only a small part of your marketing efforts. This forums is very developer friendly though.
5)Rate Me Button- In your apps your should have a rate me button and a googleplay button that points to only your apps in google play. You can also have a button to your website to give the customer a more personal touch.
6) Paid vs. Free- I would suggest you make 4 to 5 free apps before making a paid app. Most customers do not want to pay and only enjoy free apps. You can make a paid version but be warned if you make a paid version users might
1) uninstall the free version
2)buy the paid version
3)refund the paid version but keep the apk on thier device
4) Now they have the paid version for free.
I will make another how to market your android apps part 2 soon. Till then good luck with your games and apps.
These are helpful tips seeing as me and a friend just released our first app a month ago, thanks!
yoshihat said:
These are helpful tips seeing as me and a friend just released our first app a month ago, thanks!
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Your welcome hope your friends apps does well
Hi everybody
We have recently finished our word game - where real players battle online in pairs in short 60 second rounds. We are now finalizing our marketing strategy and would love your input from your experiences.
We have bought some banner ads, done a bit of ASO and bought paid reviews on certain key web sites. Has anyone got anything to add, stuff to stay away from, or websites they gave them amazing results.
The game is called WordWarX - Word Games from 1303Productions
Many thanks.
David.
The free version app is here:
id=com.wordwarx.bas&hl=en
You better watchout for paid review , sometimes you get banned by google because some of those website if not all of them use robot to submit reviews and not actual people
I am Shelly, I am a game developer. I made some games, now I have met many problems. I don't know how to do the promotion, could you give me some advices? Or somebody who is familiar with games, please help me! You could tell me the forum and market or other promotion ways! I will be very appreciated about what you tell me!
You can add me via Skype(shellyyu5) or facebook(Shelly Yu), and leave a message me here, thanks!We also accept part-time workers who are familiar with games and know how to promote games!
Hello Mates! We're Pyro Pirates, a new Indie Gaming company. We're planning to release our first episode, "Big White Wolf" of our first game "Biopower" on android soon.
We started developing this game last September & we've released the Beta version on Play Store. This game involves unique gameplay & mechanisms in android platform. Any new developers interested to know, how we developed any part of our game, do ask us in the comment section.
You can join our G+ Community
so we'd be able to send you the link to the beta version of our game.
Once we accept your request, you can click this link to check the beta version:
This is a platform puzzle game that teases your brain incredibly to finish each level.
Please, do test our game & let us know your criticisms/appreciation in feedback.
Hello!
In my experience, if you post a message about your game on 20-30 forums/blogs/facebook groups etc, you can get up to 150k uploads of your game.
Try Android Blog to promote your games / apps
Hello I am Abhishek Vohera,
I write about android apps and games on my android blog - Above Android.
You can submit your apps/games on this link : http://www.aboveandroid.com/submit-your-app-for-review
we would take consideration of your app/game.
You can also direct message me in order to promote your app/game.
Thank You
Wing13 said:
Hello!
In my experience, if you post a message about your game on 20-30 forums/blogs/facebook groups etc, you can get up to 150k uploads of your game.
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But if I post my game in the forum, the admin will remove my thread and ban me! QAQ
abvohera said:
Hello I am Abhishek Vohera,
I write about android apps and games on my android blog - Above Android.
we would take consideration of your app/game.
You can also direct message me in order to promote your app/game.
Thank You
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Thanks for your reply, I really need your help! I have sent you an private message, hope you can give me a reply!
Non paid app promotion startegies
Hello
Here I suggest you some effective strategies to increase installs for any application.
1) Submit Application on different play stores
2) Submit you app on different app review websites
3) Do exchange review on social networking sites
4) Do SMO Work for your app promotion
5) Follow some offline techniques for app promotion
shellyyu said:
I am Shelly, I am a game developer. I made some games, now I have met many problems. I don't know how to do the promotion, could you give me some advices? Or somebody who is familiar with games, please help me! You could tell me the forum and market or other promotion ways! I will be very appreciated about what you tell me!
You can add me via Skype(shellyyu5) or facebook(Shelly Yu), and leave a message me here, thanks!We also accept part-time workers who are familiar with games and know how to promote games!
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Here https://android-app-promotion.com/free-installs-and-ratings/ you can get free installs and ratings. If you have something to offer to those guys, they will be happy to give you up to 5000 installs with ratings and reviews. Just contact them.
Hello Everyone, This is probably my first post to xda developers. I'm not sure, if this thread reaches to anybody.
Anyway, I'll just place this here.
We are tiny group of developers, on our free time, we developed an news aggregator platform wenewsify.com
The app is already available in the play store. Find the We Newsify - News Platform on play store.
I just wanted to check, if you guys have any feedback. There are a lot of news readers worldwide. Although play store said they would market developer's applications by taking 15-30% of the revenue, I'm finding that, it might not be that much true. If we use google ads to promote, we get significant installs, however organic reach is not that good.
Would guys please check the app? We're here to improve the experience.
Learn More About We Newsify - News Platform. Checkout our blog for programming ornoma.com.