A Nice Bump

About two weeks ago I decided to bump up the price of quadrobounce! to $1 for a week, just to see if anyone would buy it. I'd been having a steady trickle of 4-6 downloads a day (I know, watch out world), and I thought if only one of those people per day bought my game, I could buy a can of coffee or something. No surprise, zero downloads for the whole week. BIG surprise, over two hundred downloads over the weekend after the price drop.

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The price dropped back to free on November 12. I had 116 downloads on that day, and 109 on the following. They were all free downloads, but still kinda cool, eh?

I don't know if someone was tracking the price, or if some automatic system watches these price changes, but it's nice to see a spike like that. What I learned is that I need to get ads in this game immediately, because there are a large number of new players.

Free Time = Nonexistant

Movement on my experiment to be a free-from-the-working-man's-life software developer has cooled off recently. Skyrim has already taken up a bit of free time, and I haven't even had a proper weekend to play it. That starts tonight after my night shift.
I want to spend more time coding and designing apps. I want to go through tutorials, both for coding and pixelmator. I want to get lost in code and show off my apps to the world. I just can't seem to get motivated when other things get in the way, namely my ~40 hour a week job. I have a new schedule at said job that I think will help me out. I now have two days off in a row (Tuesday / Wednesday), and I'm hoping to block out a large chunk of time, each week, to devote to development. It won't happen this week because of Skyrim, but next week DEFINITELY!
I have been actively taking notes though on things I want to make. I keep my moleskine notebook close so that when an idea pops up, I can quickly jot it down.