Cloney - A Tapped Out Adventure (+Postmortem)

Hey Everyone!

Thought I would post a link to a quick 24 hour title we created for fun (a clone of a clone, eh?!) called, you guessed it "Cloney".

I wrote a brutally honest postmortem about creating the game as well.

Cloney is available for free on the iOS App Store, and for a token amount on the Mac App Store.

It also supports cross-platform leaderboards

Enjoy!

 

That was a lot to spend on a simple clone! I can't see you making back your asset investment since it is pretty saturated right now.

This article shows how it managed it's success http://www.appfreak.net/deconstructing-incredible-success-flappy-bird/ and also why a clone is unlikely to follow in that success in that genre for now.

 

Agreed, the 'extras' put into the game were really not necessary, but the polishing stage is always the fun one.
As of this morning the game is 1/10th of the way to making back its investment (not that i ever counted on it). Not great ... but not terrible.

Which comparatively, to other projects we've worked on is actually faster as there has been zero external reviews, etc linking to it.

Anyways yup ... food for thought.

 

Thats pretty good all things considered. Mainly sales or advertising?