Decided to stop posting income reports

I decided to stop posting income reports. As you can see from my previous post, my revenue kept increasing and is somewhat stable, even though I didn’t make any updates to my games. So why keep posting same reports every month? I will only post a report if anything surprising happens. 🙂

You might have already noticed that my games are not that cool! Yet I keep getting downloads and reviews. This shows that even though you make a simple game, you can still get amazing number of downloads. That too with no marketing at all!

So stop looking at all these income reports from other developers and start working on your own apps. COMPLETE IT. AND RELEASE IT! You will definitely reach your goals and get amazing downloads.

I will continue posting on this blog about my adventures. Mostly about game/app development and some useful articles. What do you think? Let me know in the comments.

Android Development Income Report December 2013

Happy New Year! December 2013 is the best month so far! Remember last month I said the same thing. Income has improved again. 😀

December Revenue 2013

Like I said last month my revenue almost doubled this month. All Thanks to Christmas and Holiday season. This is quite common. Every developer’s revenue get doubled during this time, so there’s nothing to be surprised.

I also did a silent launch of my game Traffic Crossing to iTunes Apple App Store. I didn’t concentrate much on the ads, store listing and screenshots. I just wanted to publish the app before Christmas. I was in a hurry because App Store closes from December 21 to 27. You can’t publish apps during this time. So I wanted to publish the app on 20th and see how many downloads I get! I didn’t even add any ads. Just one exit interstitial ad which has very less CTR (Click Through Rate).  As expected that generated just $40 revenue. But the downloads were amazing. Here are some statistics for downloads from December 20 to January 9 :

iOS App Downloads

So a total of 10,697 Unique downloads in 20 days! Now I feel I should have added ads to the app. 😦  Notice the spike in downloads in the middle? That was on January 1st. I also received few reviews from users. I observed that most of the people from US rate the app just 4. For them 4 is the best they can give to a normal looking app. While people from other countries seemed to give 5 stars just like in Android Play Store.

I also started working on a new 2D game in Unity3D. Its hard to learn a new game engine but slowly I am getting used to it. This month I will try to publish all my games to iTunes store properly with good screenshots. And also add AdMob ads to them (both banner and interstitials). So my next test will be how the other apps perform during normal days(not during holidays). Stay tuned!

I managed to do  a lot of work in the last few months and looking forward for more! 2013 has been a busy and exciting year, and 2014 is looking to be even more exciting. Have a happy New Year! Hope you reach whatever goals you set. Good luck. 🙂

Android Development Income Report November 2013

Here’s the November income report! Guess what? This is the best month so far. 😀

November Income

As usual I didn’t do anything to my apps. No updates, nothing. Downloads increased a little and as a result my revenue increased too. All my apps are getting good feedback from users.

This month I thought of publishing my games to iOS App Store. But didn’t find time to do it. Also, my results were out and I successfully survived this semester too, phew! with no preparation at all. And yea in my last post I said I will be working on a Christmas themed game, and I couldn’t do that.

But I started working on a new 2D game in Unity3D. As I am already familiar with its user interface, it was easy for me to jump into the 2D tools. I am not good with programming in C# yet. I have to learn it, may take some time. After making my game, maybe I’ll do a tutorial about creating an “infinite runner” 2D game in Unity3D. There are not many tutorials regarding this. Maybe it will help some of you.

And yea Christmas is near! Which means this month revenue will (might?) be high due to the holiday season. I am also planning to post more frequently from now. Hope you like my posts. Merry Christmas!