Go sling! - shooting a slingshot at ducks

Last year I tried to earn a couple of bucks for beer by advertising and inserted an ad unit into my application, but a CTR of 0.03% hinted that the first mug of money would not come soon. I wrote a letter to my advertising provider on the topic “how is it, comrades”, and the next day the answer came with consolations saying that it could be worse, as well as a curious pdf, with their little research of the iPhone market on the topic of CTR and other parameters dependence applications. Dependence was obvious: the dumber the program, the more they click on its advertising . So, for example, the mindmap editor and some kind of intellectual game received the least benefit in this study, and the most primitive game about ducks and knickknack (shooting gun). Without thinking, I sat down for my game about ducks, with slingshots and bonuses. And that's what happened.

Go sling! This is a game in which you shoot ducks, hedgehogs, and other creatures from a slingshot, thereby gaining points and opening the following levels. Combinations of hits in the series give you different bonuses. In general, everything is simple. Screenshots to attract attention


A little about the technical side. All graphics are drawn exclusively on canvas, without using opengl or some native stuff. Of course, dynamic games should not be done like this, and how you can learn from this presentation . In this case, various optimizations, such as using primitives instead of bitmaps wherever possible, helped achieve an acceptable FPS.
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Resources: pictures are drawn with his own hand in the vector editor Inkscape , music licensed under the CC license was found on FMA .

A bit of statistics and useful information:

• The most popular device on which the game is launched - HTC Wildfire. I do not understand why, but he was far ahead of the rest. Moral: do not hammer on QVGA devices, they are people too
• The most popular version of android: 2.1
• Best time to market: Saturday evening
• In-game button "rate this app please" really works

That's all. The game was free, without advertising and lies here :


PS Forgot to mention. I tried to insert ads into the main menu, CTR sailed in the range of 1-1.5%. If the game gains popularity, I will try to analyze how advertising space affects clicks.

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