Results of Translating Hit Tennis 3
Apple has been emailing developers encouraging us to localize our apps, suggesting we 'get started' with a list of 13 languages. Coincidentally we just translated our iOS game Hit Tennis 3 to 14 languages by working with our favorite app translation specialist Tethras. Overall we've had over double … [Read More...]
Testing Unity Games on Android
We're porting our Unity 3D iPhone game Hit Tennis 3 to Android, so I've been learning about the wonderful world of Android fragmentation. I bought six different Android devices for testing, aiming to hit the main dimensions of variations in the Android world. Here's what I've learned, but don't … [Read More...]
Promoting Hit Tennis 3 on iPad with Chartboost
In July we launched our game Hit Tennis 3 into the iPhone charts with a hugely successful cross promotion campaign. This November we did it again for our iPad launch (as a universal game Hit Tennis 3.7). It worked again pretty well, reaching ranks in iPad top free #26 USA, #15 UK, #15 Italy, #21 … [Read More...]
20 Million Downloads
Focused Apps passed a big milestone yesterday - company wide we have over 20 million downloads of our apps! Here's how we got here: Rob made a couple of apps each back in 2008 that we have since retired. Then met at the Silicon Valley iPhone Developers Meetup thanks to Tim Burks. We teamed up … [Read More...]
Hit Tennis 3 at Game Design Conference
I presented at the Game Design Conference this year, speaking about how & why we made and marketed Hit Tennis 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgU4I1SfKFk Thanks to Ann & team for hosting the conference. … [Read More...]
Launching Hit Tennis 3 into the Charts
We just launched our new game Hit Tennis 3 into the iOS free charts, and after just 10 days we achieved: #2 Top free app in the USA (Angry Birds Seasons as Apple's free game of the week was #1). Top 100 free game in 45 countries Over 1 million downloads. Hit Tennis 3 has not (yet) been … [Read More...]
