So here I am, Giving another update on my Game Dev financial status. Last we spoke was late Oct with my blog post How I Successfully Made $0.20 From My First App In A Month.. Since then I’ve abandoned that game (Crossy Bridge) and have built 2 more Androids apps from the ground up. One successful… at least by my standard… and a failure… which is pretty bad even to my standard. But lets start with what you all care about. Since I first released Crossy Bridge to Jan 31, 2017 I’ve made…. $53.83! Wow! Such money! Many Dollars!

Here’s a graph that shows weekly earnings, page views, impressions, clicks, etc.

As you can see a huge jump happened mid January. about $18 in a week! Abnormal? Yes! well… by my standard. But what brought me this money? 2 words. Niche App!

Crossy Bridge

Lets start with What Crossy Bridge has done since I released it.

That jump in late September/Early November correlates directly with views from my last blog post about making $.20. So thanks to that post I made another $5.00! Thanks everyone that took petty for me! (too bad the threshold to withdraw is $100…)

As far as downloads go…

You can see the jump from ~50 installs to almost ~150. This is from the article. (Remember kids, it pays to talk about your failures.) Since then downloads have tapered off, and I consider it all but lost. I pushed an election update that put Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to the game… It didn’t increase downloads so I left the project. (I acctually never removed them and probably wont… For the rest of time it’s going to be the “election update…)

Bible Trivia – True or False

After I decided to move on from producing Crossy Bridge I began work on my second App. Bible Trivia – True or False. This game is a simple Trivia App that has a couple modes, leaderboards, achievements, and best of all. Ads! From starting your first game a banner ad is shown at the bottom of the screen. These bring in pennies. But those pennies are shiny. After each group of 10 questions an interstitial ad is shown. These are the shiny dimes and occasional quarter.

Here is a graph of my income from this Bible Trivia

As you can see most of my money came from this app. And the spikes of revenue comes from increased play time that day. Fun Fact: Most downloads happen on Sunday and Wednesday. Days that churches usually meet. But how many downloads do I have total???

Just about 120! So some quick calculations I can measure what every player brings me. 120 players / $40 earned = ~$.33 per player. Not bad. And I’d assume that this number would go down with more players. But well see!

The Alp Challenge

I released Bible Trivia Early November and It really “took off” (by my standard) in January increasing total installs by almost 100% in 1 month! But not everything is a victory. I also released The Alp Challenge. I released this guy on Dec. 1st and well…

It has 16 downloads. YAY! (and 3 current installs…. me, my wife, and some poor soul who has it filling his memory space… I’m sorry). This game never took off. Not that I expected it be awesome… but I expected it to do better than Crossy Bridge… so I set the standard pretty low.

I set two type of ads in this game. Reward and interstitial. Interstitial show after so many play through, and a reward will be shown to give coins to give you a restart where you died.

From this app I’ve made almost $6. Not bad, but as you can see, after the first “Whoohoo!” there was a long break… that was broken by the poor soul that clicked an ad on the 26th of January that probably led him to install Mobile Strike and he has has yet to uninstall my app.

So there you have it. My 3 apps, and how much I’ve made from them from Oct. 1st – Jan 31st. 4 months. $60. countless evenings and hours, busy lunch breaks, lots of google searches, hours of you tube tutorials, and a total of 287 downloads across all 3 apps.

I’m currently working on my fourth app. It’s a incremental game with a dinosaur theme… If you care you can read about it Here. It won’t be released until march probably. But until then I plan to keep monthly updates on my income for both record keeping for me and some insight for you!

Until Then,

Obvious Turtle Games