How much of it was from ads, and how much from in-app purchases ? Did the game cost money to download ? And how much time did it take you to develop ?
Ask HN: How much money did you make from a mobile game you developed alone?
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#2Neither of mine are in the app store any more, but apps with similar names are.
Santa's Last Stand - 3-4 mos - $250 since 4 years ago, free + 2.99 paid
Bank Defense - 3-4 months, - $100 since 4 years ago, free + 1.99 paid (approx--I don't remember)
mobile game market is _hard_ unless you're flight control/angry birds/candy crush. The market is saturated and Zynga (for example) has entire teams of people to make sure consumer dollars flow to them and not us (indies).
You might get lucky though! :-]
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#3All 4 of my games/apps have netted me zero. Oh well.
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#4All 4 of my games/apps have netted me zero. Oh well.
...here you are with an opportunity to link to them, and you don't. You don't link to them here in this thread, or in your profile.
I would have taken a look at them (if they're on iOS).
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#5at a tangent: one thing I miss is "Under the Radar" from this Indonesian website. Here's a sample page. Google Translate works well enough. There's a bunch of good games scattered through those pages and most of them don't use horrible freemium models.
https://id.techinasia.com/game-radar-zeen-tiny-acrobats-dan-...
Does anyone know anything similar?
Re: Ask HN: How much money did you make from a mobile game you developed alone?
#6All 4 of my games/apps have netted me zero. Oh well.
...here you are with an opportunity to link to them, and you don't. You don't link to them here in this thread, or in your profile. I would have taken a look at them (if they're on iOS).
Well, they're deleted/not acually games/terrible. Here's the least embarassing thing I have there: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.got.game.a...
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#7Tried this as an hobby for a while, modded some with Corona and Unity, barely profitable, discontinued. Trailers still here: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCUv8iB1TUHHulj0OdWVS3Rw
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#8Made about £15 with dino sprint. It was never really about the money tbh, I just wanted people to enjoy something that I had created. It has 10,000+ downloads which im extremely happy with.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wockawocka...
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#9I launched a turn taking two player real-time board game in HN 4 years ago, with zero returns so far. It took 3 months to build the web app, another 3 months for android app. But, lots of PR for the stunt. It is still up. 30K game instances so far and 3K players.
Recently I am having thoughts like should I relaunch this ? But won't want to do it without someone to look it as a business. This game feels like Chess but it is quick to learn, setup and finish.
Play with AI here: http://obaghchal.com/computer
Re: Ask HN: How much money did you make from a mobile game you developed alone?
#10I launched a turn taking two player real-time board game in HN 4 years ago, with zero returns so far. It took 3 months to build the web app, another 3 months for android app. But, lots of PR for the stunt. It is still up. 30K game instances so far and 3K players. Recently I am having thoughts like should I relaunch this ? But won't want to do it without someone to look it as a business. This game feels like Chess but…
For discoverability you should make the rules accessible front and center on the game page.
I just clicked through and spent a few minutes clicking around ... I couldn't find the rules anywhere without clicking through to Wikipedia.