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Comment on Indie Exposure – Why’s it so hard? by Alistair Aitcheson

Alistair Aitcheson — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:26:00 +0000

I like these Thanks very much for the suggestions!

Comment on Will the nature of the AppStore Kill Zynga’s cloning strategy by Korean Wonders

Korean Wonders — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:59:00 +0000

It’s quite funny to see the current contrast between the pages of 1-star written reviews that come before the first 5-star reviews when browsing the US App Store.

The sad thing is that as of today, they have 11,000+ reviews on the US Store and 8750+ are 5-stars.
Among the positive reviews, the graphic style was given as the main reason for preferring the game over Tiny Tower (not that there’s much else that differs…)

Comment on Will the nature of the AppStore Kill Zynga’s cloning strategy by Korean Wonders

Korean Wonders — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:54:00 +0000

It’s actually free

Comment on Conversion rate by Nicholas Lovell

Nicholas Lovell — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:56:00 +0000

I think it’s calculated on DAUs and then multiplied up, by an average of 30 days, but I’ll have to check (or just follow the cells in Excel yourself).

Feel free to adapt the spreadsheet as you wish.

Comment on Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Multitask by Nicholas Lovell

Nicholas Lovell — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:54:00 +0000

Do let us know it goes.

Comment on Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Multitask by Ted Chen

Ted Chen — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:17:00 +0000

I used to do cockpit research and the best way to crash a pilot was to give them multiple tasks that all required the same level of cognitive focus. You can get away with doing one highly functional task and mix in some low-level mechanical ones, but mixing two high level ones tends to spell disaster. Get an assistant or co-pilot.

Comment on Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Multitask by Peter van der Watt

Peter van der Watt — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:15:00 +0000

Interesting article.

I’m actually going to try this and see if it improves anything/everything…

Comment on Will the nature of the AppStore Kill Zynga’s cloning strategy by Riolis

Riolis — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:47:00 +0000

No it won’t. Review means nothing in appstore. We’ve seen a lot of crap/spam app going to the top even with tons of 1 star rating. (Latest one was the Temple spam fest)

0.99 is too low for people to care. If the name sounds familiar or the screenshot or icon looks familiar or nice, apple appstore customer would just throw .99 away regardless the review or whatever.

Comment on Five tips for transmedia game development by 开发者分享制作跨媒体游戏的5项要点 | GamerBoom.com 游戏邦

开发者分享制作跨媒体游戏的5项要点 | GamerBoom.com 游戏邦 — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:34:09 +0000

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Comment on Conversion rate by Fernando Spengler

Fernando Spengler — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:30:00 +0000

In your spreadsheet you calculate the conversion rate on MAU’s,
correct?