And it's not BAD. Its ok.

That pretty much sums it up right there. Second best is first loser.

To be competitive in a worldwide market you need to be best-in-class, only-in-class, or somehow provide a better value to the player than the competition does.

I feelz for ya. It's frustrating when you've put a lot of hard work into a game only for it to be relatively unnoticed. I think the answer was your budget. You did everything within your budget, but as you said you could have done more with a greater budget. Enterprise gaming companies have the advantage of a high budget for maximum advertising exposure.

Edit: I think your best bet (if you haven't already done so) is to do some heavy google searching for all ways on how to get your game noticed. I don't think you ever have to completely give up on getting a game noticed.

- There's no video on the app store page explaining how to play it which doesn't help converting people from the app store page into a download. Even after reading the page description, I have no idea what the game is about.

- The screen shots look blurry? Is that intentional?

- Can users share their high scores on social media like Twitter/Facebook from the app?

As the others mentioned, it's a small casual game and it's almost impossible to get noticed without some sort of marketing budget and plan on these types of games. If it had/has a unique selling point (e.g art, game style, innovative gameplay mechanic) then standing out becomes that much easier.

Anywho I got like 14 downloads 7 of wihich are my friends.
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Im looking for a minimal success. Like 1000 downloads.

Like 1000 downloads. DO i have to be the best for that?

When I started, to sell 1000 units at a $20 price point with a 2% download-to-sales conversion rate required about 50,000 downloads. I got 10,000+ downloads the first week just off of AOL (this was before the web).

1% conversion rate is considered average. so 1000 downloads would typically get you about 10 sales. and 1000 sales usually requires about 100,000 downloads.

but the numbers may differ for very low priced games. lower prices would tend to increase conversion rate, but additional competition will tend to lower it.

The secret of course, is marketing, marketing, marketing - and then some more marketing. Building a game is only half the work. Marketing and sale fulfillment it is the other half.

If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door, but only if you tell them about it! So first you have to build a better mouse trap - not just yet another mousetrap - a better mouse trap. And then you have to tell the world about it. But until you build a better mousetrap, you have nothing worth telling them.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression. Make sure you make the best impression you can by making the best game you can.

The mobile market is so flooded with "me too!" titles, that average just ain't gonna cut it. Not if you really want to succeed.