Featured in 169 countries. In many on the very first position of the games tab 😍 What a launch week! #TheArtOfFauna #indiedev - ThreadSky

strasser.bsky.social • 23 days ago

Featured in 169 countries. In many on the very first position of the games tab 😍 What a launch week!

#TheArtOfFauna #indiedev

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timohere.bsky.social•23 days ago

Wow, congrats! I guess that is a very rare thing to happen.

When you positioned the pre-sale, did you have to submit a first version to AppStore Review?

Strategically probably a very good move for this kind of app.

strasser.bsky.social•23 days ago

Thanks! :)
I released 7 games & apps over the last 10 years and this is the first one with so widespread features (rarely ever get featured in the US, but now I am!)

Yeah if you want to do a Pre-Order, you have to send a build through App Review like a usual release.

timohere.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yeah, hard ways to reaching „overnight successes“ are often invisible…

So I guess you submitted a working version, and iterated on the unpublished one from there?(Since you‘ve mentioned your final submit in a post before.)

strasser.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yes, here is how it works for a new app:

- In "Pricing and Availability", you set the date to some date in the future (max 6 months)
- You submit a version to review as always.
- This has to pass the standard App Store / App review rules, so it has to be working

timohere.bsky.social•23 days ago

Great, thanks for these detailed insights!

mdu4.bsky.social•23 days ago

I truly like that strategy but wondering why you set a future date instead on setting « manually release this version ».

strasser.bsky.social•23 days ago

These are two different things! You speak about the "App Store Version Release" on the main section, I speak about the "App Availability" in the "Pricing and Availability" section.

You have to set *some*date there to make it available as a Pre-Order. Otherwise it won't show up in the store.

strasser.bsky.social•23 days ago

- When through, you click on the release button
- A prompt will show up, asking you if you want to publish it for Pre-Order

- After that, you can make new versions of the app same as if you would release regular updates. Iterate over builds, texts, screenshots, even platforms

strasser.bsky.social•23 days ago

So for example, my first version did have not have iPad support, no In-App-Purchases, only 10% of the content, many screens missing (but access to them hidden), no music, etc.
But every time one of those was done, I could send it through review and makes sure that this part is fine.