Comments on: Be ready to be picked by Apple Stuff

By: Jake Birkett

Jake Birkett — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:08:11 +0000

Fairway (U. Binary) was the no.1 game on apple.com for quite a while (made me proud) and it also was no.8 of ALL downloads between Firefox and Goole Earth! haha :-)

Mac conversion rate has been massive, like really massive. So it’s definitely worth doing.

By: Roman Budzowski

Roman Budzowski — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:17:38 +0000

When they put you on the top of the page there is no indication that it is Mac Intel or Universal. There’s just download button. That place has a lot of space for description and big screenshot, so I am sure a lot of people just click on the download link without checking version.

Of course, being featured means that there’s a lot of accidental traffic, but still should not drop CR by 20x.

By: david

david — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:22:24 +0000

I’ve been picked by Apple a few days ago with my last game Spring Up! and I’ve been disappointed by my CR, too, but I think I made mistakes with this games (such as a gameplay that is not casual enough).
To react on your article, I’m not sure it’s the universal binary that increased your CR, because on Apple, games have an icon when they are Intel Only. It can however affect the number of downloads (and sales). Spring Up! was Universal Binary, whereas my previous game was PPC Only (and worked with Rosetta on Mac Intel).

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I’m still alive | Sell More Games — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:47:23 +0000

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