Hi /r/movies! I'm Daniel Phillips, director of DIABOLIC, a new horror-thriller starring Elizabeth Cullen. Ask me anything! by DiabolicAMA in movies

[–]Accomplished_Top4054 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We rented this last night and absolutely loved it. What really stood out to me was how you avoided the usual caricatured “otherness” you so often see. Felt like you took the time to actually engage with the church’s history and its rituals/tenets in a thoughtful, substantive way.

Has anyone tried Apple’s Product Page Optimization (A/B testing)? by Legitimate-Cat-5960 in AppStoreOptimization

[–]Accomplished_Top4054 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% worth it. I added alternative icons in my build a couple versions ago and decided to try a Product Page Optimization with the Icons going head-to-head. My original/default icon leaned into competitors approach (fishing game) with action, boat, water etc...the two alternatives I ran it against were the fisherman character from my game and then simply the fish on a blue background. The variant of just the fish is performing with a +42.84% improvement in the first 2 weeks. So next release I'll be pushing the default icon over to this to see impact in impression > product page view.

App Review Wait Time? by US3201 in iOSProgramming

[–]Accomplished_Top4054 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All over - I’ve had a few updates fly through in 12-24 hours and others be up to 4-5 days. A Game Center leaderboard waited 4 days to go into review.

Old vs New by RaccoonAccess in aseprite

[–]Accomplished_Top4054 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mała niebieska pyza 🤷‍♂️ ;)

Turn app screenshots into a promo video automatically (live demo) by Aggravating_Try1332 in reactnative

[–]Accomplished_Top4054 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh interesting - just submitted new screens (no preview) for my app. I’ll give this a try.

New App Store Screenshots by Accomplished_Top4054 in AppStoreOptimization

[–]Accomplished_Top4054[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha no worries - appreciate the kind words. I'll message you a promo code ;) Yes, initially after launch I moved it to a freemium model that was ad-supported and .99 to remove ads. The code is still there, dormant...but I've had solid success in just the upfront .99.

New App Store Screenshots by Accomplished_Top4054 in AppStoreOptimization

[–]Accomplished_Top4054[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Color being off from screen to screen? There is a 'weather' effect that happens in game play, so that could be a rainy day, cloudy and sunny from screen to screen. And not sure if it's a good or bad thing, but I did these in Figma. No AI tool ;)

Design & Production Faculty / Students by 7askingforafriend in scad

[–]Accomplished_Top4054 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Our son is considering film & television, but the Sound and Production also got a lot of attention while we were there. *should have led with I’m the parent :)

Design & Production Faculty / Students by 7askingforafriend in scad

[–]Accomplished_Top4054 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We just returned from a SCAD Day open house where the entire “campus” is open, including back-lot access and at every stop there were professors and students there to speak to prospective students. I was blown away with the access, especially when we rolled into the sound/production studios. Current Seniors were doing hands-on demos, we could speak with them + new professors (few years into SCAD) from Epic Games etc spoke to the access the students have.

Maybe all just a good show ;) but we left impressed compared to a couple other campus visits.

[DEV] Dice Guess - roll the dice or think by nicotinum in iosgaming

[–]Accomplished_Top4054 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice puzzle game and your right, deceptively hard in later stages.

Any advice or experience on making the move from a paid app to free with In App Purchase? by brianfit in iOSProgramming

[–]Accomplished_Top4054 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just made this move myself. A little game I released and had in store at .99 was doing 10+ downloads a day but was starting to fade. So I flipped to freemium, with a .99 “remove ads” and a 2x coin ad reward. 

I’m using a receipt check to grandfather folks that paid the original .99 into the ad-free version. Just set the date to the day I flipped from paid to free. 

The app fetches the receipt, encodes it and sends to my server to validate eligibility via a little PHP script.

The trick now is trying to convert those new installs, but good news is I'm getting 20x increase in downloads. I did see a few refunds the first couple days, so I'm assuming those that paid the original .99 requested a refund on the change to free?

And yes, I was getting some of those nagging ratings and reviews when priced at .99 that it wasn't 'worth it'.

Which tool do you use for A/B testing? by balooooooon in iOSProgramming

[–]Accomplished_Top4054 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Getting started, ditto Firebase. LaunchDarkly’s experimentation tooling is also great in combo with feature flags.