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Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?

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Re: Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?

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Post by e28eta »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #8
Dorian-Marie wrote: post #5

Your buttons doesn't work for me on Chrome 36 / Mac OSX: http://www.gfycat.com/OptimisticGrossAegeancat

Offtopic, but which tool do you use to capture videos like this? I've been meaning to find one. EDIT: I'm getting the feeling there might be a niche market for a cross-platform program that does this. QuickCast is slick, but Mac-only. Simplescreenrecorder works, but it's Linux-only. Running ffmpeg console commands might work, but it's a bit esoteric. Nvidia has a tool, but only for Nvidia card owners. And QuickTime i…

Not sure if it's what grandparent used, but I recently discovered QuickTime Player has a feature to do screen recording that works pretty well

Re: Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?

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Post by thejosh »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #8
Dorian-Marie wrote: post #5

Your buttons doesn't work for me on Chrome 36 / Mac OSX: http://www.gfycat.com/OptimisticGrossAegeancat

Offtopic, but which tool do you use to capture videos like this? I've been meaning to find one. EDIT: I'm getting the feeling there might be a niche market for a cross-platform program that does this. QuickCast is slick, but Mac-only. Simplescreenrecorder works, but it's Linux-only. Running ffmpeg console commands might work, but it's a bit esoteric. Nvidia has a tool, but only for Nvidia card owners. And QuickTime i…

I found simplescreenrecorder (for Linux, probably for other OSs) fantastic for this.

Re: Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?

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Post by KamiCrit »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #8
Dorian-Marie wrote: post #5

Your buttons doesn't work for me on Chrome 36 / Mac OSX: http://www.gfycat.com/OptimisticGrossAegeancat

Offtopic, but which tool do you use to capture videos like this? I've been meaning to find one. EDIT: I'm getting the feeling there might be a niche market for a cross-platform program that does this. QuickCast is slick, but Mac-only. Simplescreenrecorder works, but it's Linux-only. Running ffmpeg console commands might work, but it's a bit esoteric. Nvidia has a tool, but only for Nvidia card owners. And QuickTime i…

If you have a Nvidia graphics card 6xx and higher, a feature called "Shadow Play" does a great job of recording on screen content.

Re: Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?

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Post by mafuyu »

Hi Matt! Grats on the success of your game.

I would recommend making a subset of the levels free and having the rest be IAP or a separate purchase. Then, make it free for a limited time, and try to get some blogs to cover you and promote your app on social media at the same time. This type of model only really works if you have critical mass, but it seems like you're off to a good start.

Good luck!

Re: Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?

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Post by joeconway »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #8
Dorian-Marie wrote: post #5

Your buttons doesn't work for me on Chrome 36 / Mac OSX: http://www.gfycat.com/OptimisticGrossAegeancat

Offtopic, but which tool do you use to capture videos like this? I've been meaning to find one. EDIT: I'm getting the feeling there might be a niche market for a cross-platform program that does this. QuickCast is slick, but Mac-only. Simplescreenrecorder works, but it's Linux-only. Running ffmpeg console commands might work, but it's a bit esoteric. Nvidia has a tool, but only for Nvidia card owners. And QuickTime i…

QuickCast is great for recording and hosting tiny screencasts too

Re: Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?

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Post by alexeichemenda »

Hey, congrats on the success ! I would suggest focusing on retention, social sharing and ratings to keep yourself in a good app store positon.

Retention : add push notifications, try to stay in touch with the users (with limited offers for example as mentioned below) and to make the user come back to the app

Social sharing : I would suggest creating a leaderboard, and connecting to FB to share your results and compete against others.

Ratings : Implement an incentive to let the user rate your app, to grow the number of reviews you have.

PS : I didn't have time to download the app, so maybe you already did this. I will download it in a couple of hours and will edit. If you want to chat more, alexei [dot] chemenda [at] gmail [dot] com !

Re: Ask HN: Our iPad game hit top 30 in free games, how do we keep the momentum?

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Post by aw3c2 »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #8
Dorian-Marie wrote: post #5

Your buttons doesn't work for me on Chrome 36 / Mac OSX: http://www.gfycat.com/OptimisticGrossAegeancat

Offtopic, but which tool do you use to capture videos like this? I've been meaning to find one. EDIT: I'm getting the feeling there might be a niche market for a cross-platform program that does this. QuickCast is slick, but Mac-only. Simplescreenrecorder works, but it's Linux-only. Running ffmpeg console commands might work, but it's a bit esoteric. Nvidia has a tool, but only for Nvidia card owners. And QuickTime i…

ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1024x768 -r 30 -i :0.0 -sameq x11grab.mpg
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