Mika Mobile on selling Battleheart on iOS and Android

Mika Mobile on selling Battleheart on iOS and Android(mikamobile.blogspot.com)

56 points by raptrex 15 years ago | 18 comments

spaghetti 15 years ago |

Thanks for sharing this. As an iOS developer considering moving to Android I found the recount of your Android experience interesting.

ashbrahma 15 years ago | |

You should look into Tapjoy. They are offering money for developers porting from Android to iPhone

athst 15 years ago |

The most surprising fact was that Android is 80% of iOS revenue - that's a LOT better than I would have expected and had previously thought about the android market.

hallmark 15 years ago | |

Unless you compare launch months, in which case the Android revenue was 5% of iOS.

jsnell 15 years ago | | |

But then again his third caveat on those numbers is that the iOS version was heavily promoted during and after launch, while the Android version wasn't.

arn 15 years ago |

I find the tone of this article very strange. It starts off as a very positive "Hey, Android's worth doing". But by the end, you feel like he's being driven mad due to the added frustrations. :)

Steko 15 years ago | |

I dunno what's strange about it: "yes but needs improvement at a/b/c" is a pretty common result.

I'd seen the game before but had passed on it. I liked the developer's attitude and openness and so I just bought it.

arn 15 years ago | | |

It wasn't subtle.

"There are days where I just want to pull the plug on the whole thing because I'm sick of 12 year olds (or people with comparable communication skills) trying to convince me they've been wronged and I should give them their 3 dollars back.

...I shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water. It is a loud, obnoxious baby though."

2muchcoffeeman 15 years ago | |

I too find it strange. He says it was worth his time porting to Android but never says how long it took. I have this game on iOS and it came out quite a while ago.

What we really need to know is (profit)/(development time). And you'd have to match this on Android (or maybe surpass it given his frustration). Even if this took a reasonable time to port, it might be possible that had he worked on his next iOS game, he would have made even more money for his time.

darklajid 15 years ago | | |

> Actually porting the game only took about a day.

It says how long it took, right there in the article. He says that he had to fight some trouble down the road, but 'porting' was done after a day, due to Unity magic.

aerique 15 years ago | | |

He wrote that since they use Unity porting the game took him about a day and he also wrote the Android version is a meaningful source of revenue.

berntb 15 years ago | | |

>> What we really need to know is (profit)/(development time).

Don't forget the extra support time he had on Android. I don't know about you, but I want a high hourly pay to do that.

Maascamp 15 years ago |

Honestly, this was pretty all over the place and seems more like a stream of consciousness than any sort of proper comparison between the two markets. Sounds like he's been getting annoyed by support requests lately and decided to write a rant ("comparison") about his Android market experience.