May 14, 2017
Putting out Feelers
Fans kept asking for multiplayer in Alien Star Menace.
How would you feel about an... Alien Star Menace card/board game instead?
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Putting out Feelers
Fans kept asking for multiplayer in Alien Star Menace.
How would you feel about an... Alien Star Menace card/board game instead?
Welcome new iOS players!
It appears we’ve been getting significantly more downloads on iOS this month, in the 2-5x more than normal range. Again, no reasons that I can discern.
App stores are weird, man.
20K Downloads!
Alien Star Menace has been seeing healthy downloads and ratings that are holding steady long after I thought they would. Whatever changed our download numbers seems to be long-lasting, and our ratings have only increased the more people get their hands on it!
What’s more, the Android version is overtaking the iOS version in downloads per day! Given how markedly the Android version used to be dwarfed by iOS (a factor of 10 to 1), it’s fun to watch this shift.
So: welcome, new players! Hope you’re enjoying the game, and feel free to send questions or comments my way!
Alien Star Menace turned 2 today!
Well, the website did. The game is probably closer to a year and a half old. But Tumblr won’t give me a cupcake for that, so we take what we can get.
Thanks to everyone who has been following us and talking about this game! Your support has meant the world to me.
Press!
We were mentioned by GameInformer you guys.
Also Dad reviewed us on YouTube. Not my dad, but someone’s dad, I assume. Otherwise it’s a very misleading YouTube channel.
We hit the 10K download mark on Android! Woop woop, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Our rating has also been gradually inching up from 3.4-ish to 3.8-ish. And our rankings, man. Our rankings:
China has been climbing gradually for weeks now uninterrupted. The other countries come and go, but the Chinese seem to really be digging ASM these days.
That’s all. Just wanted to share some numbers before we do holiday festivities. Enjoy Alien Star Menace!
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
The Android download spike is still building, and I still have no clue why. No investigation has yielded clues. Still not quite on par with iOS download levels, but getting there.
We’ve also *finally* hit the 100+ review mark after sitting in the high 60s for months. Rating is holding strong - averages between 4.3 and 4.4. All the reviews have been damn positive:
“Best strategy game ever You can customize your own party and play the gauntlet for an endless game. I died from specters.”
“... WOW I'M LITERALLY SPEECHLESS... Like, SERIOUSLY, SPEECHLESS.. This game was the bestest that I've played at its genre so far.. Will be expecting great things from this new fella ^^”
Pretty giddy watching more and more people enjoy my game.
Something’s happening on the Android end that’s causing our game to get a steep uptick of players. And I have *no idea what.*
As far as I can tell, it started around Oct 12 and hasn’t let up. It’s not a huge huge boost - though the graph is steep, we’re talking the difference between 10 and 50 installs per day, both of which are small numbers by mobile standards.
Weird, man.