Tuning: DADF#AE

Tuning: DADF#AE

Tuning: DADF#AE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gHo7fCBnHM

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Here are a couple of previews of what’s offered, as well as a cellphone photo of me wearing a size M standard t-shirt (for reference I’m 180 cm tall and wheigh 80 kg).

Go ahead and visit www.printfection.com/ninjafingers and give yourself or a friend a treat!

There were a few things that made me settle down on one of these services. First of all, I started up these 3 programs simultaneously and added my own and my clients accounts. The first thing I noticed was that both Appfigures and Appstar were looking very slick. The interface is clean, and escpecially Appstar lets me immediately see how many sales of each app I’ve made in a small box right next to the name. So when Appstar starts up, I don’t really have to do anything to see the most important info.

However, Appfigures wasn’t able to import information to far back into the past. I wasn’t it expecting it to though, it was just a surprise that both Appstar 2 and Appviz to were able to show me the complete sales of a clients app release back in november 2010. (iTunes connect only stores daily sales for 14 days and weekly sales for 13 weeks, that’s what I was expecting to see with all the programs.) So in just a few seconds I’ve turned picky and decided and Appfigures is no longer an option for me. Also, their free trial doesn’t give you the full functionality, so I wasn’t able to see any reviews or rankings.

Now it’s down to Appstar and Appviz.

I’ve got to be honest, Appstar is looking a lot more like a polished product. They have a total sales box right next to an apps name, so you know right when the program opens how many sales has been made. The sales graph is shown as a line chart, with a semi transparent gradient color.

With Appviz I only see the total sales the currently selected app. The sales graph is a bar chart, which I’m not very fond of. As for functionality, they both let me see sales, revenue, rankings, reviews, everything you need to know.

There was a problem though. One the only paid app I had logged at the moment, Appstar claimed my client had made a revenue of 9700 SEK and Appviz 7000 SEK. I contacted both companies support section to make sure they both were showing the revenue after Apple had taken their 30%. Both companies confirmed, and if support matters to you, I’ve got to recommend Appviz since they went really out of their way to help me figure this one out.

I deleted my accounts and logged in again to see if anything changed. I also reinstalled both softwares, but I still got the exact same numbers. I got annoyed and since I couldn’t check my clients bank account to see which number was real, I decided to manually check each time period using iTunes connect and comparing each time period with both Appstar and Appviz.

It turns out Appstar was wrong. Their support couldn’t give me an answer to why the number was off by so much, and the issue was never resolved.

So in my case, picking Appviz was easy.

My recommendation, on the other hand, is to do exactly what I did: give all the trial versions a good run to see which suits you the best.

Appfigures

Online service. Free if you don’t mind manual imports. Monthly fee if you want automatic import and other goodies. Link to their website

Appstar 2

For Mac OS. 50 USD. Link to their website

Appviz 2

For Mac OS. 50 USD. Link to their website

It is a family game, designed to bring people closer (literally). 2-4 players have a game of mini-Twister, where markers will popup at random on the screen, and your goal is simply to position your fingers on a maximum of three places, while hopefully preventing the other players from doing the same.

What’s so special about this? There are no programmed rules. Each round ends when only one player is positioned on his/her markers, but how you get there is completely up to you. This makes it very well balanced for all types of players. For example, as I have played quite a lot, I would only be allowed to use one of my hands to reach the three positions, and I wouldn’t be allowed to lift my hand off the screen. A player with smaller hands, such as a 5-year old, could use both his/her hands, lift them as they please, and possibly try to push the other hands out of the way. In my experience the games are always pretty balanced and the players quickly adjust the rules to make for more fun games.

Device requirements:
* iPad
* iOS 3.2 or later
* size: 39 MB

Pricing and availability:
At 2 $ USD, the game is available in all regions. Review copies are available upon request. Ninja Fingers – App Store

There is a press kit at www.chromatic.se/project/ninja-fingers-for-ipad 

–

Andreas Wieslander
Sweden

Site: www.chromatic.se
E-mail: ninjafingers@chromatic.se
Twitter: @MonkeyKong
Skype: andreaswieslander

Well, I have, for years and years. If you use the right software and have a decent internet connection it can be just as good and sometimes even better than traveling to a shared office. For example you could call someone on Skype and share your screen and discuss the days work in a matter of minutes.

Or, you can do what I did last Thursday. My dear programmer for Ninja Fingers, Johannes, didn’t have his mic set up, so we thought we’d just screen share. He took control of my computer through www.logmein.com and instead of talking like two normal persons, we frantically and simultaneously tried to type text wherever there was an available text  box. For example we had an entire discussion in a google search box, taking turns writing. We did some weird searches that day…

When the keyboard didn’t cut it, Johannes starting drawing on screen to further get his point across. This lovely screen cap is him drawing how he felt when the upload to App Store completed.

This is how you develop games. Right..?