#alienstarmenace

Fans kept asking for multiplayer in Alien Star Menace.

Welcome new iOS players!

It appears we’ve been getting significantly more downloads on iOS this month, in the 2-5x more than normal range. Again, no reasons that I can discern.

Alien Star Menace has been seeing healthy downloads and ratings that are holding steady long after I thought they would. Whatever changed our download numbers seems to be long-lasting, and our ratings have only increased the more people get their hands on it!

What’s more, the Android version is overtaking the iOS version in downloads per day! Given how markedly the Android version used to be dwarfed by iOS (a factor of 10 to 1), it’s fun to watch this shift. 

Alien Star Menace turned 2 today!

Well, the website did. The game is probably closer to a year and a half old. But Tumblr won’t give me a cupcake for that, so we take what we can get. 

We were mentioned by GameInformer you guys.

We hit the 10K download mark on Android! Woop woop, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 

Our rating has also been gradually inching up from 3.4-ish to 3.8-ish. And our rankings, man. Our rankings:

China has been climbing gradually for weeks now uninterrupted. The other countries come and go, but the Chinese seem to really be digging ASM these days.

The Android download spike is still building, and I still have no clue why. No investigation has yielded clues. Still not quite on par with iOS download levels, but getting there.

We’ve also *finally* hit the 100+ review mark after sitting in the high 60s for months. Rating is holding strong - averages between 4.3 and 4.4. All the reviews have been damn positive:

“Best strategy game ever You can customize your own party and play the gauntlet for an endless game. I died from specters.”

“... WOW I'M LITERALLY SPEECHLESS... Like, SERIOUSLY, SPEECHLESS.. This game was the bestest that I've played at its genre so far.. Will be expecting great things from this new fella ^^”

Something’s happening on the Android end that’s causing our game to get a steep uptick of players. And I have *no idea what.*

As far as I can tell, it started around Oct 12 and hasn’t let up. It’s not a huge huge boost - though the graph is steep, we’re talking the difference between 10 and 50 installs per day, both of which are small numbers by mobile standards.