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Your interpretation of the rules is correct. You do have to publish through us to count as an entry. On the rev share split: if a user spends $99c on your app,

by jvrossb 14y ago

Your interpretation of the rules is correct. You do have to publish through us to count as an entry. On the rev share split: if a user spends $99c on your app, Apple takes 29c, we take 20c (70% post-Apple), and you are left with 50c which is just over half. Our publishing contract is very developer friendly - we don't take ownership of any of your IP. So, you could publish your game with us (and we'd probably end up touching up some art here and there) and if you didn't like what we were doing with it, you could publish a version yourself. If we aren't worth it, you're not tied to us. If we are we hope to publish a bunch of your games :) Very low risk in giving us a try if you already have a game on the way.

joshAg 14y ago
"Winning games must be free during the time that we are driving your guaranteed installs." Does that mean you take 20% (28.5% post-apple) of the sale after the guaranteed installs and you take the first $1000 after the guaranteed installs?
- bennyg 14y ago
  My thinking is that a lot of games will need in app purchases for this to work out, so I'd imagine that's where most if not all monetary value would come from.
  - jvrossb 14y ago
    If a game is paid, we will switch it to free for a day or two during which the installs will be driven. This is a common promotional tactic (see freeappaday.com and others). If the game is free then we'll just drive the installs when the developer wants us to. We won't require the game have IAPs at the time we start promoting the game (though of course we'd prefer it).
- jvrossb 14y ago
  We just tweaked the terms slightly - we're going to keep track of our actual art costs (which tend to come in at $1000 but may be lower especially if you game has a bunch of art) and deduct that. So if the art cost say $750, we take the first $750 Apple deposits into our bank account and then 30% after that. Once the rev-share kicks in on every 99c spent on the game Apple takes 29c, we take 20c, and you get 50c.

by jvrossb 14y ago

joshAg 14y ago

"Winning games must be free during the time that we are driving your guaranteed installs." Does that mean you take 20% (28.5% post-apple) of the sale after the guaranteed installs and you take the first $1000 after the guaranteed installs?

bennyg 14y ago
My thinking is that a lot of games will need in app purchases for this to work out, so I'd imagine that's where most if not all monetary value would come from.
- jvrossb 14y ago
  If a game is paid, we will switch it to free for a day or two during which the installs will be driven. This is a common promotional tactic (see freeappaday.com and others). If the game is free then we'll just drive the installs when the developer wants us to. We won't require the game have IAPs at the time we start promoting the game (though of course we'd prefer it).
jvrossb 14y ago
We just tweaked the terms slightly - we're going to keep track of our actual art costs (which tend to come in at $1000 but may be lower especially if you game has a bunch of art) and deduct that. So if the art cost say $750, we take the first $750 Apple deposits into our bank account and then 30% after that. Once the rev-share kicks in on every 99c spent on the game Apple takes 29c, we take 20c, and you get 50c.