by Jörg | Mar 22, 2016 | News, Reports
Hi folks! Today I wanna talk to you about: Amazon Underground Some of you may have heard the recent success stories of Halfbrick, Coffe Stain Studios or developers I did not even know existed making more revenue on underground than everywhere else. The only way for me to find out if this is all marketing or if there’s some truth behind it was to try it myself. As mentioned in my last blogpost, Bloo Kid 2, among some of our other apps, has been released on Amazon Underground a while ago. It took some time until this version picked up steam, but today I am going to present you some very promising numbers. For those unaware of the amazon underground program, here is a short excerpt from amazon: [pullquote align=”full” class=”” cite=”amazon.com” link=”https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/underground” color=”#f9982a” size=”12″] […] Amazon Underground includes a new monetization model where Amazon pays developers based on the amount of time your app is used. With Amazon Underground, you can turn 100% of your Android users into revenue generating customers. You get paid starting from the very first minute your Amazon Underground app is used, and you will continue to be paid for every minute of use by every customer in exchange for you waiving your normal download or in-app fees.[/pullquote] As I said, I ported some of my kid’s apps and Bloo Kid 2 to Amazon. For the latter, it was quite easy because I already integrated GameCircle for the Amazon FireTV version. Downloads Below you can find the current download numbers. The yellow line is for Bloo Kid 2, the lines close to zero are for all the other...
by Jörg | Dec 8, 2015 | News
We have great news for all of our die hard Bloo Kid fans! Thanks to the Amazon Merch program, we can now offer T-shirts sporting Bloo Kid artwork! Just click the preview below to be redirected to Amazon.com. Each design is available in five different shirt colors, just click the corresponding shirt on Amazon. Please tell us if you want another character from the Bloo Kid universe on a shirt, and we will make it available...
by Jörg | Nov 20, 2015 | News, Reports
Hi all, it has been quiet here for too long now… You probably have noticed that I was busy porting Bloo Kid 2 to more target platforms. I was also experimenting with some other things like Amazon Underground, but this will follow in a (soon to come) blogpost. Today I want to focus on presenting you a complete revenue breakdown of Bloo Kid 2 on all platforms where the game is available at the moment. Since there are still more platforms to port the game to, I will update this post as soon as there is enough information available for more insight on the sales. A short prelude For the sake of completeness, here is a very short summary about the game. Bloo Kid 2 is a retro-style platformer that was developed with the Monkey-X cross-platform programming language. It was first released for mobile devices and later ported to a number of different platforms. So here comes the list (in chronologic order) Please understand that some platform holders do not allow to make sales numbers or other sensitive data public, so I must spare some details. But I bet you can always do the maths to see the whole picture. iOS App Store Release 03/06/2014 Out since 662 days Downloads to date 143.000 Revenue to date $14.694 The iOS version is free with ads. I use Vungle video ads between the levels for monetization. Users can remove the apps via in app purchase ($1.99). This is also the version that took the most time to complete, because it was basically the “full game”. I worked...
by Jörg | Oct 9, 2015 | Games, News
Following our tradition of porting games to as many platforms as possible, we are proud to announce that Bloo Kid 2 is now available on OUYA!...
by Jörg | Oct 7, 2015 | Games, News
Bloo Kid 2 has just been submitted to the OUYA store, and we will begin porting the game to the next platform right away! America’s favorite streaming player, here we come!...
