We Got Our First Press Mention
We got our first press mention. It is just a mention but it is a start. Whoo Hoo.
Apptell put ius in their Macintosh/iPhone software update round up.
More to come.
From the Vault
I am posting some pictures from deep development. Be warned we went a little kookoo.
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- Simar talking to Steve at Zante’s Indian Pizza
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- Scrum and Ideas
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- Dani Talking to Steve in tech support.
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- Zummy Zummy
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- Yes we developed hExistentialism in a sound studio.
Apple Approves!!!
Our game hExistentialism got approved by Apple. Woo Hoo.
Here is the link to our AppStore page. Buy it, Rate it, and Tell your Friends!!!!
And for good measure here is a pic of one of our team team members at Bay to Breakers last Sunday in San Francisco with the whole Mario Kart Gang.
Mario Kart at Bay to Breakers
Ayumusoft Project #1 95 days in the making, *55 in the waiting
*(48 days to fix account info, 12 for the little green check mark, 9 in review)
New Ayumusoft Logo
Check out our new Bad Ass logo.
Ayumusoft Logo
This goes out every small developer out there. Get an artist. They Rock.
Submission Complete
As of 9:19pm on May 12th 2009 our new iPhone game hExistentialism has been submitted to Apple for review.
We now play the iTunes Connect refresh game as described by the good folks at Magic Jungle Software. “…just before it appears in the App Store. As long as the developer stays awake 24 hours a day, they can rush in to iTunes Connect on receipt of this email, and change the availability date to today…”
Until then please check out our hExistentialism page for more info and screen shots of the game.
Release info:
Submission Date: 05/12/09
Availability Date: 05/16/09 (This is a weird date that apple wants that has nothing to do with the day you can buy our game)
Date Actually Available on AppStore: ??????
Official Release Date: 05/22/09
Ayumusoft Project #1 – 86 days in the Making, *56 Days in the waiting.
*(48 days to fix account info, 12 for the little green check mark, 0 in review)
1 Way to be an Open Developer
In a recent post about sales figures for the Flight Control The Firemint team openly and unofficially posted there sales figures. Here are some highlights
- Sales during the report period: 587,485
- Sales to date (6 March to 27 April): over 700,000
- Graph of global sales per day
- Total sales per country (57% of sales in USA)
- Peak sales days (over 35,000 sold on best day) and sales trends over time
- Highest daily sales per country (19,164 in the USA)
- Chart performance: sales per day per country at #1
- Appendix with 8 pages of raw sales data: units per day per country
Here at Ayumusoft we will also openly and unofficailly post our sales figures for hExistentialism. So with any luck and tennacity we can post nice figures like the ones above.
Screenshot
Now that art is locked for submission, we can announce our first game “hExistentialism”. Since we want to be mysterious like The Night Man (Uhh aahahh). Sorry about that, since we want to be mysterious. We are releasing 1 screenshot of the game. Come back soon for more, or just add us to your rss that works too.
Ooh how mysterious
Call Call Call Call …. Call
A little more on my little green check mark adventure. 8 days before I received the little green check mark I spoke to the great people at Apple regarding the missing little green check mark.
Learning from my previous mistake of being content with the first person I spoke to and their solutions. I asked to speak to a Superior (Supervisor), which is what had helped get all my info fixed in the first place.
What I learned from this phone call was gold.
The more you call, the faster stuff gets done. Unlike most places where “Escalations” moves you up a ladder of people that can do something for you i.e. phone support => tech support => engineers. In Apple Land “Escalations” adds a +1 urgent to your problem. How do I know this, well the supervisor told me that is how it worked. He also said that if you call and just say “I want you to put my problem in Escalations”. Support won’t know what you mean. So explain your problem then put the word “Escalations” in what you want them to do.
So in short call often. Apple Dev Support is like your busy uncle that won’t remember your birthday unless you call him the day before to remind him you exist.
One more thing the dev support team is not alll that big. Remember names people give you. Get there last names. If you start refering to the poeple you last spoke to, the new person will actually go up and ask them whats going on.
We are almost there
Apple delighted us with a little green check mark on our paid contracts.
We are now good to go. We can submit to apple. All that we need is to now complete a few features we started in the wait for Apple and we are go for launch. Oh just saying that feels good.
Screen-shots, video, and official game website to come in the days ahead.
Whoo Hoo!
Oh Oh…
That little green check mark is as elusive as a leprechaun in Alabama.
Aymusoft Project #1 – 78 days in the Making, *48 Days in the waiting.
*(48 days to fix account info, 9 and counting for the little green check mark)
