Street Pool - new game made with Gideros Studio

fxone

Hello,
Street Pool game is the original mix of billiard and arkanoid games – completely new technology called ArkaPool. Simply touch the white ball, when the streetlamp is light on; drag the line with adjusting power and try to aim the other billiard's balls to put in "pockets" - holes of street duct! Move the white ball freely on the board. Remember to get some additional points by breaking glass bricks, and if you are very skillful, you need to destroy all of them on each level to achieve gold medals! Beware the outs of all billiard's balls and don’t worry about bigger objects...
Near the out? Try to rescue the billiard balls by using (like a puzzle) unbreakable gold bricks. Earn Gold Bricks for every return to Street Pool game and every highscore, enjoy!
Not enough power from dragging line? Use additionally slider to adjust precise power, and make more fun!
Street Pool game is based on Box2D physic’s engine. You probably need to spend couple of days to get all of Gold Medals. First 20 levels require true billiard skill, patience and power to break on the next level...See ya soon and good luck!

Street Pool contains third party's advertisements.

Feature bullets:
• 20 levels with a lot of glass bricks to break and 9 different kind of balls to strike!
• 2 independent power controllers (line and slider) to have more fun!
• 2 systems of achievements: Gold Medals and Gold Bricks (collectable and unbreakable)

"Pool and Arkanoid gameplay can seem a bizarre combination. However, the result is quite." (Emmanuel Lund APPSZOOM: 3/5 Worthy)

version 1.33:
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.streetpool

Best Regards for Gideros Community
Please review, comment, rate and be censorious!

Fx Studio

What's new?
1.35 version:
- critical bug fixed: occuring on an older devices after resume application by pressed hardware Home/Center button; it looked like blank, white screen, sometimes with pulsing of gold brick
- critical bug fixed: multiplying main process; it looked like running application several times

gorkem

Downloading now

PS: Did I say that, I LOVE it when a developer's first forum post is about announcing his game?

ar2rsawseen

Hi,
great one

Interesting approach on trailer, liked it. But in my opinion, it would be better to show a little more of gameplay.

hgvyas123

congrats for release

but i am not able to search your game on my mobile have you dropped the support for armv6?

fxone

armv6 is supported; please tell me your phone model I'll check this on google's list of device compatibility. Also check your android version: is this 2.1 at least?

hgvyas123

my device lg optimus p500 with icecream

fxone

LG P-500 is unsupported on Google Play (but LG-P355 yes..) so it's really strange. Check this out: http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1727131
It looks like that it's not caused by my game. I can download it on armv6 devices ex.Alcatel OT-908.

techdojo

It's supported on my ArmV6 ZTE-Blade / Orange San Francisco

hgvyas123

cool my device is unsupported

but i am able to download this games
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.persephonetech.GiveMeNums
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.betikus.filinbanyosu
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tigerCubStudio.FeedTheAnimal

and not
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.streetpool
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whiteskygames.NeonCommand
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joustinbeaver.joustinbeaver

god knows why they all are made with gideros

Scouser

It would be interesting to see which version of Gideros was used to build the games and which plugins / features they use. It may not be the game itself but some functionality which is not used in the first 3 games.

fxone

Gideros Studio v.2012.2.2 and no plugins at all.

hgvyas123

with Gideros Studio v.2012.2.2 i am able to install game in my phone (through eclipse)
and i am sure with all versions of Gideros i can install game.

Scouser

@fxone: Try this post, maybe it might be of help. If the thread doesn't help then maybe @MikeHart: (the writer of Neon Command) might be able to help.

fxone

@hgvyas123 and @Scouser: I'm using now (temporarily) Google Copy Protection system, which does not allow to install application on rooted devices. So @hgvyas123, do you have a rooted phone?

hgvyas123

@fxone

yes i have rooted device

thnx for info

Teranth

Downloaded and tried it out, everything seems to work fine on the Droid X , CongoRatz on the release.

fxone

@hgvyas123 Hello, Google Copy Protection system removed since ver.1.1 Please give me information about any problems! Regards

hgvyas123

@fxone

i had installed it

fxone

Hello,
Since ver. 1.23 the beta test is closed, and we are working now on new features only:
- for 1.3 ver. premium scores achievements ("double, triple, quad.... breaking bricks", "double, triple, quad... balls in pockets", "long shot" etc)
- for 1.4 ver. online leaderboards
Stay on update!
Thanks for all Giderans! Very kind community... unusual

Teranth

@fxone glad to have you here , keep us updated for sure!

fxone

Inspired by conversations with Teranth and AlexRu I would like to put here some short report of first month StreetPool's life on the market 08-06-12:09-07-12:

Admob (no refresh):
ctr 12.96%
clicks 149
impressions 1231
$ 3.64

Google Play:
downloads 625
users active 150
users active% 24.00%

In first week was very expensive (1$ per 1 download) ad's "campaign" with relatively weak result: 50 new users and one public activity on this forum only.
On Google Play my downloads collapsed after 1 star rating from last week.
Next update 1.24 has just released (description at the top of topic).

Teranth

@fxone great to hear from you yes the negative reviews really hurt downloads--at least they sure have when I have got them before.

I've found that I get the biggest boosts of new installs once I release updates--but it drops off pretty quick, usually I get 3 days of increased new updates and then it's back to the usual.

Your admob stats are quite good by the way. I don't like paying for installs when I can help it, but they certainly do help boost you stats--and the more downloads you have the more downloads seem to show up--I guess users figure if more people like it, it must be good.

On the note of installs, without paying for them:

One option to try would be TapForTap--I believe we have gone over it on the forum before, but if you haven't given it a go yet you can signup for their free 1000 views and get a little burst of traffic--and they ended up giving me another 2500 views to test drive, if you decide to integrate it you can divert like 10% of your ad views for a little extra boost in installs. (Or as I am doing later this month releasing a whole game that will be directed at generating views for tapfortap to spread out among my other apps)

Best part is that they are as easy to integrate with Gideros as AdMob is, actually if you setup ad network mitigation through admob you can run them both by % which is awesome.

My Aff link is: http://r.tapfortap.com/JtYIR, or you can of course go directly to the site, but it doesn't cost you anything which is nice, it's a bit like a banner exchange for apps/games.

If you haven't already started using the other markets I HIGHLY recommend that other gideros folks send their Android apps to SlideME.org's market, my apps get 3 times the downloads from that market, and it costs you nothing anyway just another way to get installs and people playing your games.

Heh sorry for the book, I just got started and couldn't stop. Great to see your results, hope you keep at it those are pretty good numbers for sure.

Eli

fxone

Second month of Street Pool's life on the market 08-07-12:09-08-12:

Admob (no refresh):
ctr 14.90%
clicks 264
impressions 1772
$ 7.5

There is some progress in comparison to first month (see above).

Next update 1.3 has just released:
- Added unbreakable gold bricks for a help and achievements system
- Audio and score bugs fixed
- Added fireworks

fxone

After some strong critical opinions on android forum (in Poland) I tried to lift the graphics and I changed the icons and logo. So new update 1.32... It also has been prepared for some cartoon characters which I would like to add in the near future.

hgvyas123

@fxone

why no refresh just wanted to know :-?

fxone

@hgvyas123
you mean: no refresh of ads? I would like to don't annoy the user and give a chance to like and domesticate with an ad... I think it works.

hgvyas123

yeah i mean that really the ctr is very high almost 14-15 times higher

fxone

Third month of Street Pool's life on the market 08-08-12 to 09-09-12:

Admob (still no refresh):
ctr 14.29%
clicks 294
impressions 2042
$ 8.17

So there is still increasing trend. Slightly better result than in second month (see above)
@hgvyas123 also high CTR and more impressions. Little decreasing CTR and increasing impressions is caused by Gold Bricks system, which determines to restart a game and an ad same.

in attachment total 3 months revenue in admob chart

Also 1.33 update has just arrived :
- power's slider added (additional strike force control; even 6 times more power than in previous version)

[Edit 10.09.12]
App accepted by Amazon (see signature).

fxone

Hi again!
After over 2500 installs (on Google Play) FIRST error has been reported twice; probably by the same person:

java.lang.RuntimeException: eglSwapBuffers failed: EGL_BAD_ALLOC
at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$EglHelper.throwEglException(GLSurfaceView.java:1082)
at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$EglHelper.swap(GLSurfaceView.java:1040)
at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.guardedRun(GLSurfaceView.java:1338)
at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.run(GLSurfaceView.java:1121)

I'm sure in 90% that is caused by implementing version 2012.2.2 Gideros SDK, which I used instead of newest version 2012.08.4, because of the lack of Atilim's great solution described here:

http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/1725/android-app-is-resumed-at-lockscreen#Item_4

Now when I caught it, I'm almost ready to update game based on the newest SDK 2012.08.4, but I've noticed some problem:
at FIRST (only at first!) run of the game (updated or new) when I press Home button and try to return to the game by using app icon , it always runs second, new process of the game... When I kill the second process, the first is awaking very often with Force Close error.
Would you mind confirming such behaviours at yours own builds (based on 2012.08.4) or tell me how to avoid this? Thanks in advance!

Tested on rooted Froyo (2.2) Alcatel OT-908 (T-mobile Move) Armv6

fxone

@fxone Ok I found a solution:
If you noticed such behaviour (like described above) in your app, please consider to put in AndroidManifest.xml this phrase at main 'activity' section:

android:launchMode="singleTop"

the example line starts like:

<activity android:launchMode="singleTop" android:label="<a href="https://forum.gideros.rocks/profile/string%2Fapp_name%26quot" rel="nofollow">@string/app_name&quot</a>; android:name="com.giderosmobile.android.StreetPoolActivity" android:screenOrientation="landscape" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize">

If you want more details, please see:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#lmode

regards

fxone

Hi All,
maybe someone will find this info useful: since I've changed category of my game from Arcade to Sports in Google Play Store, I start to be ranked FIRST time ever:

Country Sports Games
# of countries - rank 500 reached 5
# of countries - rank 1000 reached 5
Vietnam 161 Oct 6, 2012
Turkey 309 Oct 6, 2012
Chile 418 Oct 7, 2012
Egypt 443 Oct 5, 2012
Argentina 459 Oct 7, 2012

So this is truly funny like some aspects are important even like category of game... The funny is also, that I had this 'eureka' after whole week and after two beers LAST friday evening:)
cheers