Falling Balls was free from the start and has made me a small fortune in ad revenue.
All the other paid apps have made me, all told, maybe $300 over the last year. When I consider that amount of money vs. the exposure of having thousands more people possibly using the app because they don’t have to pay 99 cents for it, I’ll go with the higher exposure. Furthermore, with Bug Out! I installed Pinch Media analytics. It was discouraging to see that close to half (48.9%) have the users had pirated versions. Therefore, I’ve removed all “lite” versions and made all my apps free. I have not added advertising where there was none originally. You get the original full version for free. Use it, enjoy it, tell others about it.
Read more...After only 11 days in approval, RoboDancer has hit the app store. I guess it pays to write blog posts about long waiting times. 🙂
Read more...I’m pretty bad about email. No, I’m really bad. This weekend I decided to sort out my inbox and found unanswered email going back to last October. Ugh.
A lot of these emails are questions from people who read this blog or have read my books. Questions and some thanks or praise. So yeah, I feel bad for not answering so many for so long. But here’s the deal: there’s no way I can answer all of them, and answering a 6-month old email is kind of bizarre anyway. So I just went ahead and deleted most of the really old ones. Sorry if yours was in there. I’m going to go through and try to answer all of them from this November through at least September, maybe August. Probably not much before that.
Read more...This is really nothing but a fun app that I had a fun time making. It hearkens back to a small Flash piece I saw on the web close to ten years ago (which you can see here).
Basically, you have a robot on your screen. Fire up some music and start clicking and dragging to change the way the robot dances. Or shake the device to come up with a random dance. There are 10 interchangeable heads, tops, bottoms, and sets of hands, meaning 10,000 possible different robots, plus a few different backgrounds.
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- Gravity Pods
A simple concept – use a gun to fire a pellet into a target. But the pellet’s path is deflected by little gravity pods. Use them to guide the pellet around barriers and into the target.
We got stuck on Level 9, but we had other games to review. We’re sure you can do better.
The first app I submitted to the app store back in January was approved in something like 3 days.
As the year went on, that figure went up to around a week, 10-12 days, two weeks, over two weeks.
I have people telling me now that they are experiencing waits of up to 20 days. So my guess is that by the end of the year, we’ll be topping 3 weeks.
Read more...As I’m considering picking up a Nook next month, I’ve been thinking about the possibility of transferring my Kindle books over to it. This has led me to do a bit of research into ebook formats.
First of all, we have the Kindle format, .azw, which is actually just a slightly modified version of the Mobipocket .mobi format with some changes to the DRM and the way the serial number is stored.
Read more...Well… buy my book.
Today only (Thursday, October 29, 2009). AdvancED ActionScript 3.0 Animation, only $10 (ebook version).
https://www.friendsofed.com/dotw/index.html
Read more...It was just about a half a year ago I bought my Amazon Kindle 2. Six months later and I still love it. It’s a one trick pony, but hey, who doesn’t love ponies? Seriously, it’s just great at what it does. My Kindle’s index is about nine pages long, full of books I’ve read, books I plan to read, books that are partially read samples that I might take a look at some time, and articles saved through my own KClipper application. I know there are a lot more features it could have, but when you are reading a book, all those wished-for-but-nonexistent-features just seem to disappear.
Read more...Today is my birthday. I am 101101. How cool is that?
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