Just wanted to post an update, for anybody who was interested. Basically, we peaked on Official Day #1 with that wild 300 units sold number, and steadily decreased to our all time low of about 90 units (#65 or something in the top paid games list) just this past Thursday (a couple of days ago). We got a nice, two-line writeup in the mac community uber-blog Daring Fireball on Friday (yesterday) night, and suddenly things were...different. We're currently the #53 app overall and the #25 game, and still going up. Somewhere in there we got tweeted a bunch, and about a hojillion blogs all syndicate Daring Fireball's content, so word about wurdle has been spreading really fast the last day or two. We live in a mighty strange world!
Meanwhile we are working on completing the v1.1 update, with bug fixes, better online scoring, new sounds, some new graphics, and a couple of pretty cool new features. We'll submit the update and the "lite" (free) version of the game sometime this week I think. This update should address most of the feedback we've gotten here and in the app store I hope.
I really don't know what moral to take from this experience yet. Some thoughts:
1 - Your scope can be small as long as your work is polished
2 - iPhone consumers are much more into games than I ever expected
3 - Low price, combined with aforementioned polish seems to be a powerful COMBO
That last one is more than a little tricky though. I think for the hours people put into it, Wurdle is worth way more than $1.99. But I'm also fairly certain that none of these influential blogs that we never actually contacted would have picked it up on a whim if it was a pricier title. We've also been getting really...hyperbolic reviews due to the perceived difference in price and apparent game quality, which as a first time developer with no reputation, licenses or experience on the platform has been quite a boon I think.
My thoughts so far anyways! Hope they are of some use to someone
Finally, we've done well over 1500 sales in our first week and a half of being on the store, which is really exciting and encouraging. Onward, and I hope upward!
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