Stumbling out of the gate by Mr Jack

Alien Swing has been on the store for just over three weeks now, and we've had several fairly positive reviews (here, here and here), we were even briefly features under "New and Noteworthy" on the US store. But sales have been... lackluster, shall we say.

Unfortunately this has meant that there's not enough money coming in for me to continue working full time on this side of the business and I've had to take on some work for other people to balance the books. This means that further developments from Mr Jack Games will be stalled for a while.

All is not lost though, with Apple's new 20Mb 3G/EDGE download limit, we should be able to boost sales a little by trimming things down to fit under that threshold and I'm working on doing just that with a few nifty compression tricks. I've alse got a plan for a sort of "lite" version. I'm not a big fan of out and out lites for games at the bottom end of the price range; but I've got some ideas for creating a series of minigames using most of the same art assets and game mechanics as for the main game and putting out a "freemium" game featuring one of these games free for download and offering others as DLC at 99 cents a pop.

Hopefully this can help spread the word and get sales of Alien Swing back on track.