Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by gentleman11 2143 days ago
What was the game? Could you elaborate on your release model for the $100k game? Any website or blog posts?

- a solo indie dev several months in

1 comments

I’m not sure if I want to share the titles, but the games were in the sports category. First of their kind on Android Market before it became Google Play. They were really feature heavy and bug-free. One of them sat at top 3 in Android Market and Google Play sports category for several months. Then about 10 of the top 50 games were all the exact same type of game.

My second game was more of a golf game, and I knew there was competition, but I put a “play my other games” link in the free version of my most popular game which had about 3 million free downloads and that propelled sales.

No blog or twitter. Just placement in the Google Play Store and having been first of their kind.