Solitaire finances sing romance

It has been more than a month since I released two solitaires for iOS. I give a financial report on the income from advertising of the mentioned opus.
For a change, the text of the article is diluted with jokes, football, politics, alcohol and sex.

Bite of Suarez

The summer months are a time of financial lull in the mobile gaming market. Most of the population of the world watches football and bathes in the rivers.
However, this is a great time for analytics - any financial forecast based on summer figures implements the most pessimistic scenario. Worse will not be.
Yes, the future is beautiful. Let me remind you that two services provide a wonderful future for developers of free games for iOS

• adMob;
• Charboost.

I have already given a formula for calculating the success of an iOS application in 2014.

10,000 downloaded copies of the game must bring at least $ 5 per calendar day

Based on this formula, the author must decide whether to spend money on the promotion of the game in TOP 25 or enjoy his beloved wife and Italian cuisine.
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Solitaire Rio 2048

I offer a financial report on the first game. I remind you that this is clone 2048 on a triangular board. The presence of 3 directions instead of two significantly changes the character and topology of the original game.
The promotion of the game was not spent a single ruble. But!
Thanks to the publication on Habré and the successful name, the game Rio 2048 has gained the necessary number of downloads to date - 11005



What is the calendar income from the game?
Look at the graph, most respectable audience.



If in the starting days the application brought the desired $ 5 , now it is stable 25 rubles per day.
Alas, for some unknown reason, 25 rubles is much cheaper than five dollars.

In total, the application earned the next amount in almost two months.


At the same time, the application has excellent reviews and is not ashamed of it. I myself do not play Rio 2048. During the week of training, I understood, so to speak, the general principles of success and visited the TOP 5 best players.

Conclusion

Promoting the application does not make sense . Success will not be with a probability of 90 percent.

Bricks Towers Solitaire

Thanks to the publication on Habré (2000 downloads), paid review on w3bsit3-dns.com (1000 downloads) and vile tricks of the author (2000 downloads), the game Bricks Towers has not received the required number of downloads to date - 5906.



Nevertheless, some conclusions can already be made. 6000 players - almost reliable sample. Nearly.
In total, the application earned the following amount in a month and a half.



That is, the paid publication on w3bsit3-dns.com paid off - 5,000 rubles were spent on the review. But, frankly, this is not profitable business, guys.

Okay, now the most important thing is your daily income.
On the chart, the income from the game for the calendar month for the adMob site.



- Aha!, - the attentive reader exclaims, - there is no $ 5, no!

Sorry, I forgot about Chartboost .
He also contributes to daily income.



Why three graphics? This is an infamous trick of the author - I have released three clones of the game, to artificially increase the number of downloads.
In total, three clones bring in more than $ 3 a day from Chartboost full-screen ads.

Thus, the game at 6000 downloads brings $ 8 per day .
I'm not leaving this game. I can not comprehend the secrets of the correct collection of brick solitaire.
Moreover, the author throws up 4 new hands every day and the public from all over the world tries to collect them better than others.

Special skill stands out someone IrBisoff .
It became almost impossible to defeat him, I even began to suspect that the bot created by him was playing. It turned out to be a living person.
It turned out by chance.
In the table of records, he constantly changed his location, then Hungary, then Ukraine. I decided that IrBisoff lives in the Lviv region and walks back and forth across the border, making some money as a programmer.

However, no. He received a letter with a question

- What the hell, dude? I live in the center of Kiev, and your geoip service classifies me to Hungary.

I apologize, I did not give Ukraine to Hungary.
Here is the culprit

$ipAddress = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $xml = file_get_contents('http://api.wipmania.com/' . $ipAddress . '?k=E2g-  -3'); $ipCode = $xml; 

This is the code of the php-shnogo file on the server, where I collect the best results of the best players. The two-letter value of the country from which the result of the game came from is returned to the $ ipCode variable. For example, for Russia it is RU , for Ukraine - UA . Accordingly, on the server I started a set of 200+ pictures with country flags - RU.PNG, UA.PNG, US.PNG and so on. I display the flags of the countries in the table of the best players on the corresponding lines.

Conclusion

With a probability of 95 percent, Bricks Towers is a success.

Theoretically, I found an uncle with $ 50,000 for the purchase of traffic and getting into the US TOP 25 . Perhaps by October-November (the most profitable time for the take-off of games) we will crank up this scam with him. In this case, wish him luck, guys.

Frequently asked questions

Where, blah, the version for Android?

Android version on the way. Summer, wine, football - damn them. The timing has shifted.

It turns out that games do not provide a high standard of living for a programmer?

For example, a chart of monthly income from all games on the Google advertising platform.


In addition, iAd - it is doubly more effective than adMob. Yes, we remember you, Steve!
Chartboost - brings 60 percent in comparison with adMob.

In short, the pension is not bad.

Where links to games

• Rio 2048;
• Bricks Towers.

Thank you for your attention, all a good holiday!