Download-Numbers doubled in 14 days

The Re-Release of Torstan Defense doubled it's download numbers in the last two weeks.

The download numbers of Torstan Defense are increasing steadily. The most downloads come from Brazil (1176), India (533) and Thailand (459). Brazil's numbers increased by a large amount in the last week! USA (298) and Germany (253) are not doing that great, but are also increasing by a constant amount. In the last 7 days I got more than 200 downloads per day all over the world.

So the first 30 days of Torstan Defense are over now! I'm not disappointed with the start of it, as the re-release literally "killed" the old version. I did some statistics to help me improve my download numbers for my next project. 

Let's see, how Torstan Defense is continuing in download-numbers...

Old Torstan Defense beaten by Re-Release in 14 days !!

It took 14 days for the Re-Release of Torstan Defense to get more downloads then the old version!

In addition the Re-Release has way more active installs (1405) as the old version ever had (572)! I'm very proud about the Re-Release! The new version got into Top New Free with a maximum of rank #312 !! Sadly it didn't got any further and is now stuck at around rank #570. I think that those statistics are for only counting for my country - Austria - I don't know Google's algorithm. ;)

I learned a lot with the re-release of Torstan Defense! It helped me understanding Google's Play market better and how the "Top New Free" category is working.

Torstan Defense has now 19 ratings!! 18 out of those 19 are five-star ratings and one is a four-star rating. That's an average of 4.94! This statistic makes me very proud, because it shows how the redesign affects ratings. Thanks again to woodystables(.com) for getting that done for me!

About the country download statistics: Brazil, India and Mexico did shoot out of nowhere about one week after the release. Now those three countries currently have a hold in download-numbers. USA and Germany are gaining an constant increase over time. Some countries seem very random, so I can't tell how it is going to continue.

What's next ? As my private life has a big change in about five months, I think that I won't have time to do something new. I will take a look into Torstan Defense and how it evolves over the next months. Also there are some game ideas floating around in my head.. 

The old Torstan Defense will be unpublished in about 7 days from the market. I had some plans about Find Your Run 2 and already started working on it, but I won't continue it. But I promise, that I won't stop working on new applications and games! So please be patient.

That's it for Torstan Defense, Find Your Run and Quad Live Wallpaper for this year! I hope you had a great year too. 

2013 is coming! Bye 2012!

My tablet arrived !!

Finally my tablet arrived !

It was stuck at austrian custom-control and I had to pay a little fee, but finally I can hold a tablet in my own hands! Of course it is not an IPad4 or Nexus10 when it comes to speed or display quality, but for ~180€ (with customs) this 10 inch tablet is definitely worth it. Thumbs up to Ainol for creating the Novo 10 Hero, it is very nice - love it !

Torstan Defense Re-Release

When I released Torstan Defense, I read every critism, comment or oppinion on Google Play and Email and decided to put some more "love" into Torstan Defense and asked my friend Woody to redesign the game.. Also I did some major improvements to the game, changed the style of play and and and .. A lot has changed to Torstan Defense!

New Gameplay

The "Pause, on tower-menu"-Option has been removed, so the game no longer pauses when you are building a tower. I decided to remove this function, as I got some "slow gameplay" critisms. This makes the game much smoother to play, but also harder in every way, so I had to rebalance all levels on every difficulty. It was a lot of work, but I think the outcome is pretty sweet.

Fitting for every screen resolution

I only had one standard layout for every screen resolution. That didn't work out very well, as on tablets some game elements were very small. Also on very small screen resolutions for example the tower menu filled the whole screen and playing like this felt kinda disturbing. So I created layouts for small, normal, large and xlarge screens. I could only view the results on a tablet (xlarge) and my smartphone (normal). Small and Large was only checked in the preview inside of Eclipse.

New Graphics

The game has been redesigned completely. There are new graphics for everything and you probably won't recognize Torstan Defense again. Woody did a great job redesigning. It took some time, but the result is awesome! By the way, cehck out www.woodystables.com and see more of his stunning illustrations. But now, let the images speak!

Bonus Levels !!

I added some bonus levels to the game. They are supposed to be funny and hard to play at the same time. Three bonus levels are currently playable, after beating the story mode on any difficulty. I will release all bonus levels piece for piece over the next months until all 25 levels are playable.

New Functions
There are a lot of new or changed functions in the game now, that makes it more user-friendly to play.

- Once a tower-upgrade has been found, it is possible to view the help for the building plan. For example if you created the Poison-Tower in the game, by combining two towers together, the help now shows a hint how to upgrade to the poison tower. This feature was requested by a user on Google Play and I think it's a pretty cool idea.

- Access the help directly out of the game. To make the above mentioned feature even more useful, it may be accessed now directly out of the game by touching the small, half transparent help-button on the top right.

- Warnings will show where the next enemies will appear. Those warning will only pop up once per lane and start fading in and will disappear after some time.

- A small gold bag icon will now indicate enemies which will drop gold when they die. This function was requested by a friend of mine, to help players finding the right tactics in some levels.

- Enemies will now leave footsteps on the ground to make the feeling of the game much more alive. Those footsteps will fade out after some time. An example can be seen on the picture above. (the gold-sack picture)

- Story has been shortened as some story sequences took far too long to view. Also I did fix some animations of the story view and some errors occuring by clicking through too fast.

- A lot of bug-fixes have been implemented. I hopefully fixed all of the errors and appeal to every user to keep reporting errors, when the game suddenly force closes.

New Languages
Spanish and Italian language support was added to the game. Thanks to Gabriele R. for the Italian and Aarón Isaias M. for the spanish translation. Thanks to you, Torstan Defense is now available in four different languages: English (Standard Language), German, Italian and Spanish.

Now go and download Torstan Defense! It's available in the Google Play Store! Of course for FREE!

Please feel free to contact me via mail (tialawllol@gmail.com) to give me feedback!

Working on it ..

Finally my HDMI micro (D) to HDMI normal (A) from China came! I am now able to view my smartphone on my TV screen. Thanks to Sony for putting an HDMI output into my Xperia S. I love it! So currently I'm working really hard on Torstan Defense right now. Hopefully I'm done soon ..

Sooooon .. + Order from China

I ordered an Android tablet from China and hopefully get it before christmas. It's the Ainol Novo 10 Hero, which is very cheap and has enough "power" for what I'm going to use it. I wanna wrap it and put it under my christmas tree to surprise myself! By the way, if you speak the name fast enough and leave "Novo 10", you could also understand "Anal Hero"! Maybe I'm going to name my tablet like this..

Also I ordered a hdmi cable (A - D; normal - micro) to finally put my smartphones screen on my tv. (thanks to Sony for putting a micro hdmi output on my Xperia S) The cable costs about €2.- and shipment is completely free! How is that even possible?? Whenever I want to send a package from Austria to somewhere else in Austria I have to calculate at least 5€ for it. Crazy little world.

And soon it is coming. Hopefully before christmas, but let's wait and see, if it is possible ..

Quad Live Wallpaper completely free !!

From now on the free Version of Quad Live Wallpaper has all functions available!

I decided to give all the functions of Quad Live Wallpaper to the free version and set the full version only as possibility to support the developer. Go on Google Play and update Quad Live Wallpaper to get all the different styling possibilities! List of all features available to the free version: Quad Size, Color Mode, Shadow, Shadow Color, Transparency, Transparency Mode, Border Width, Border Color, Animation Style, Animation Speed, Manual Animation, Automatic Animation, Automatic Animation Interval, Moving Background, Activate Background Image, Background Color, Save Preferences, Load Preferences & Reset Preferences !!