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Milestone for IsoWords

I just noticed that IsoWords passed a huge milestone: over 100,000 scores have been submitted to the leaderboards. Approximately 500 games are submitted to the leaderboards everyday. Below are some screenshots of the leaderboards to highlight the amazing scores/words people have found. English IsoWords: Highest scoring words and top free play scores Spanish IsoWords: Highest [...]
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Some people are freakin’ awesome at IsoWords

The 1.1 update of IsoWords has been out for over a week, and over 25,000 games and words have been submitted to the leaderboards. Up until this point I was used to dominating all my friends at this game, but now I see I am barely hanging onto the top (btw, if we aren’t friends [...]
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IsoWords 1.1 sneak peak

I believe I am just two weeks away from submitting the 1.1 update for IsoWords. It is a huge update; in fact, I believe I have spent more time on this update than I did on writing the core game. Perhaps it should be called 2.0… Please take the screenshots below with a grain of salt. [...]
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The thing that keeps me going…

Sales of IsoWords have continued to be awful… really awful. Yesterday 2 copies of IsoWords were sold, and 5 in total across all versions. I can’t do a “Week #2 in the App Store” type of post since iTunes connect is going down for the holidays, so I will delay that until the first week [...]
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Post Appvent Update: The Good and Bad

IsoWords participated in the Appvent Calendar this past Saturday, and I was overall very happy with the outcome. The English version of IsoWords was downloaded about 10,500 times, and all versions together were download about 12,500 times. In bar chart form all my sales look something like this: If you look closely you might notice a [...]
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IsoWords and the Appvent Calendar

IsoWords participated in the Appvent Calendar today, and it was a total success from my viewpoint. Early this morning I set IsoWords to be free, and by the afternoon there were numerous mentions of IsoWords on Twitter and other websites. Some very nice things were said, including IsoWords takes on the tested formula with a slight [...]
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IsoWords for Developers

Following up on my previous post (geared towards consumers) I would like to write about my experiences with IsoWords as a developer. Start Up Costs Like most iPhone devs, my start up costs were nearly zilch. Up until a few days ago my only cost was the $99 developer fee from Apple. Then I paid a friend [...]
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IsoWords

This post is about my new game for the iPhone called IsoWords. It was submitted to the App Store just a few days ago. IsoWords lives in the flooded genre of word games, alongside gems like “Words with Friends” and “Word Warp”, but also amid a bunch of crap and poorly done knockoffs. Letters are distributed [...]
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