January 16, 2008 at 7:41 am
On most days, my site gets about 30 unique visitors and 100 page views. I released Sunset late on the 13th. On that day I had 161 unique visitors and 671 page views. On the 14th TUAW posted about my game. I got 1,846 unique visitors and 5,121 page views. Apple posted my game on the 15th (yesterday) and made it the featured game. My site proceeded to flake in and out of existence until Apple updated their site again some hours later, bumping my app from the featured game slot. I got 15,232 unique visitors, 41,949 page views. That's over 400x more page views than I get on a typical day.
I consider the launch of Sunset to have been a great success. Since I don't charge for the game, my metric for success is traffic, and with 400x the normal amount of traffic, I feel that the launch could hardly have gone better.
As an aside, I want to thank everyone who has sent me an email, commented in my blog, or wrote about my game in forums. People seem to really like the game, and it feels good to have made something people enjoy.
Thanks, everyone!
January 18, 2008 at 1:11 am
It is an awesome feat, and not a bad wee game. It's slightly faster on the desktop than the phone though; i can't imagine why ;)
I think you deserved to have you server blown away by the traffic -- in a good way of course :D
January 19, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Fun game, played it all the way through.
keep up the good times! :)
p.s. loved the hand drawn cut scenes!