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Ask HN: Mobile game user acquisition?
I'm an indie game developer. Small team, just one developer(myself) and one artist. Yesterday we launched a real-time multiplayer game called Godspeed Commander. For us to survive we need to have a constant flow of games so that people aren't stuck waiting for someone to play with. Obvious I know, but apparently this is more difficult to achieve than I had planned.

So I am here looking for some advice.

What strategies have worked best/worst in your experience for user acquisition?

Here are the links to the game on iOS and Android if you are interested:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/godspeed-commander/id913674745
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nahmeenstudios.godspeedcommander
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Based on the API response, the SDK/plugin will perform certain functions.

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Email in profile.
Two things I've done:

1. Try your best to move more during the day. Standing desks can help, but standing for 6-8 hours is probably just as bad as sitting. Do walking meetings if possible, and take frequent breaks. sSometimes I'll take conference calls with a headset and stretch in my office. Use a Pomodoro app to remind yourself to stretch or change position every 25 minutes or so.

2. Lots of people who sit for most of the day have lumbar lordosis or weak hip flexors (I did). To check if you have this problem, stand to the side in front of a mirror. Does it look like your butt sticks out and your lower spine curves in? (See here: http://stronglifts.com/lordosis-why-it-causes-lower-back-pai...). The other way you can test this is attempt to do a "hollow rock" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh4-uLTL4v4). Is that hard/impossible? You probably have lumbar lordosis, weak hip flexors, weak abs or all of the above.

This can be hard to fix, but not impossible. It's doing to take a few months, but it's totally worth it. The way I did it was to just do Crossfit. It's really hard to do this on your own and keep your motivation up and Crossfit solves that problem. Most Crossfit exercises require you to have an "explosive" hip thrust which will strengthen and stretch your core.

If you don't want to do Crossfit, kettle bells seem to be the exercises in Crossfit that stretch and strengthen the hip flexors most for me. Try kettle bell swings, kettle bell sumo deadlifts, and kettle bell cleans.
if by whiskey you mean..., then yeah, it's amazing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If-by-whiskey
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You can find more about my work & a copy of my resumé at my site:
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You may have seen RunSwiftLang.com on HN before in the past. That's one of my side projects! In the past I was the iOS developer at Fitocracy and more recently I worked on the iOS app for Chicago-based startup, Charlie App.

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While I agree that Twitter has strained relationships with developers, Fabric is a great move. For anyone who hasn't used Fabric, it is the best mobile SDK integration I have ever seen. It seamlessly works with XCode, Android Studio, IntelliJ and Eclipse to easily let you add Twitter features, distribute builds ala the now POS that is Testflight, and get cross-platform crash analytics.

...if this is a fox luring me into it's hen-house, the hen-house sure is comfy and well-featured. Sad to see it diminished in this article, when IMO it's a far far better offering than any other major companies (looking at you Facebook) are putting out.
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I took an Alexander class in college 7 years ago. The best thing I got out of it was the ability to sense when my head-neck-spine are happily aligned. Indeed this alignment does seem to affect everything else.
Why should Twitter sell data via a 3rd party? Note that DataSift tries to equalize platforms and makes Twitter look like just another option. Right alongside the companies that they have no relationship with (ones where you give them API keys and they connect for you). Datasift was also taking a rather nice cut of the money, and Twitter can easily provide the same service.

Having a third party handle it, take a cut, etc. only make sense if you want to keep customers at a distance (say, to pretend to be concerned about privacy), or if you're too busy or unsure about building the service yourself

Cutting Datasift off (really, just letting the contract expire) is nothing like terminating API access for third parties.
Sharing is the most ethical thing there is.
How were they helped by the drugs being illegal?

I know this is a little bit of a canard and what people really mean is "I don't want to see more people go that way", but it strikes me that there is a need to separate these two things -

1. Some drugs, particularly opiates, are a bad thing to get into.

2. Therefore banning them and criminalising use is the right thing to do and the best way to stop more bad stuff.

Personally I think a system which decriminalises possession of hard drugs and legalises their distribution from (or use at) a well regulated medical centre would be a good thing, from a harm-reduction viewpoint. But I'd agree that not everything should be as easy to get as a can of beer.
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I totally agree. I think your idea is really pragmatic and we should probably execute it. I just wish the current system, which we're deeply invested in, would work for the good of the country (which is the point of having a government and offices like USPTO).
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There's a lot of misinformation out there on posture, with advice like "sit up straight" often doing more harm than good.

The best advice I've ever gotten was the Alexander Technique, which is used mainly by actors and singers. It's generally taught through 1-1 lessons, but there are many books on it.

A good starter is this book that actually teaches the basics of it, rather than just talking about it:

http://www.amazon.com/Guided-Lessons-Students-Alexander-Tech...

Practicing the "semi-supine position" has basically saved my lower back.
I have very bad posture since I was a child. I have tried many, many different stretches and even physically therapy, but nothing has been as effective as simple jogging. Recently I've decided to solely focus on jogging (40 min) after a cup of coffee and the decrease in back and neck pain has terrific, as well as showing more strength in my core muscles. I think caffeine is very important component in my exercise because if I don't take it I find myself falling back into bad posture habits even while jogging which subtly constricts my breathing.
>And now you're saying that every new feature falls into this category.

Subtle misreading. It's not that new features are in that category by definition, it's that every major feature proposal kijin has seen so far has been of the dangerous sort.
But there are many fun complicated ways =)
That Wikipedia article lists 1 person who was deported from US territory (prior to their clearing border control, so they were not legally in the country).

Are you getting the "Hundreds of people who were legally in the US" from some other resource?

I guess people won't really change their views on the practice just depending on whether it occurs in the US or not, but I also don't see any reason to add noise to the discussion.
That looks like a very interesting book, thanks. The link you give doesn't list a Kindle edition, but it's actually there if you look hard enough: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FDR4ER0
There's little value in introspection if there's no frame of reference.
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Excessive screen time is a real challenge for this generation that's been born to it.

We (SO and I) have a newborn, and I often use my computer or phone around him. We think it might be detrimental to his development if he used electronics as much as I do, but I am not a good example to him.

Our strategy for balance is to (1) provide a lot of alternative means for engagement like outdoor activities, excursions, and interesting physical toys; and (2) provide many useful learning apps like this one that will harness healthy, natural interest in electronics with added developmental and educational benefits.

Growing up, I always sought out electronics and gadgets, from Gameboy, to Palm Pilot, to iPhone. But I think we are well past the tipping point where moderation is easier than excess with mobile devices. Adding more of the "good" stuff, we hope, will crowd out too much of the "bad" stuff.
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Please don't take this the wrong way, but Texas is a pretty terrible place to live:

http://pastebin.com/Vt6vNgeS

http://web.archive.org/web/20150401050939/https://www.texast...
Yup. I'd go so far as to say be careful not to stand too much at your new standing desk at first, and in fact pay extra special attention to keyboard and monitor height - their relative positions may be different when standing vs. sitting. (Anecdote: I screwed up my legs pretty bad when a client gave me a standing desk last year and I attempted to maximize my time spent in the standing position. Took about 6 months to recover)
1. "That means if my project sucks then I go into a slump, and if my project turned out to be great then I am elated."

In my estimation, the only way to break this cycle, to really exit this emotional roller-coaster that you are riding is to:

Let go of the results and focus on the quality of your effort.

For example, check yourself against this question:

"Am I giving 100% to the quality of my effort, in this moment?"

To elaborate: when you build your wall, are you focusing on the wall, or are you focusing on laying a single, individual brick, with the best quality, ability and focus that you can muster?

If you focus on the wall, then you are focusing on the end result. I recommend shifting your focus on laying each individual brick, which is a focus on effort, on process... a focus on execution.

2. "Basically I have pretty bad self esteem and I feel like I compensate for it by trying to do more and more projects."

Your self-worth should be based on your entire "package", if you will. It is complex, but it includes how you treat others, the light that you bring to the world, the light that you bring to your friendships and relationships, your helpfulness and respect toward your family, what you bring to your work... I'm fond of saying, "It's how you bring it." You want to be someone that "brings it." You want to be firing on all cylinders.

And so, this feeling of self-worth is tied to every single moment, not to results, which are ultimately ephemeral, and are only a small piece of the equation. Ultimately, results will fade, and may not always be what you expected anyway. But, if you focus on execution and process, you will be better-served to end the emotional roller-coaster of self-doubt, because you will know that you are bringing it, you will know that, "No matter what the results are, I delivered to the best of my ability. I strive to bring it in every moment, and I strive to better the process, and to serve and help those around me."

Judge yourself (and others) in this manner, and I think it will serve to change your life, to change your perspective.

Wishing you all the best.
One can only hope that these assholes eventually try to squeeze the wrong "legitimate businessmen" somewhere, and end up at the bottom of a river somewhere.

Yeah, I know: they're really good at avoiding large enough companies that have the resources to silence their bullshit.
It's about class. Look at drug incarceration in Africa, see who gets jailed. The same in any country. Who gets jailed for drugs offences? The poor blacks, Hispanics, whites, etc.

Look who gets locked up for drugs offences in Russia. The poor. It's not race. Race is a byproduct.
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What do you mean by "ended up sticking with the monetary payments on my DO referral account" -- are you still receiving monetary payouts from DO? Truth to be told, I've got a hefty amount already, and twice as hefty still pending to be paid. If there's a chance to cash that money out, I'd definitely take it, but it doesn't seem like it from where I'm sitting.

Other than that, good suggestions, I'll have to take a closer look / think about it. Thanks!
Standing desk and a good standing mat help. Slacklining and weightlifting (squats, deadlifts, "closed-chain exercises", etc.) really help.
I'm just spitballing here, but one has to be concerned about how much heat soaking the ground loop can take before its effectiveness goes down significantly. Dirt is a pretty good insulator. How much will the "ambient dirt temp" increase after X hours of running AC? How long does it take for the heat to dissipate?
Don't even need FPGAs; you could do it all in software and use very light software defined radio hardware.
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I don't agree with the 'difficult to google' label, because you can easily find relevant results on all of these terms through Google.
I personally refuse to give apps access to contacts unless its actually necessary. What would this do in that case?
Yes, but if you violate ITAR, you'd probably want to avoid transiting the US in the future. We're pretty militant about enforcing our laws beyond what you'd consider sovereign boundaries.
My only complaint regarding the "hidden dependencies" is that it is actually a form of "hidden complexities to the problem."

That is, just because you can reduce the problem to a single simple sentence, does not mean that it is a single simple problem. I welcome research into making it simple, but I get worried when that research tends to gloss over many of the different use cases that drove the tools that exist.

Would be like complaining about how many different tools there are to cut things. And, seriously, can you believe that people actually use their butter knives to cut stuff at their dinner tables?! Some people just use the side of their fork!
I've also heard this (I'm also in the UK), but pretty much never seen a "survey" done in practice. As you said it's usually just a video or some page buried deep in the corporate intranet. I wonder if it's reasonable to expect more (standing desks etc), given the damage that can be done even sitting at a "correctly positioned" workstation. My own employer will buy cheap items (e.g. a laptop stand, trackball instead of mouse if you have wrist problems, etc) but I think I'd be told where to go if I asked for a new desk or chair
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My first guess would be currency conversion from whatever the Euro price was initially.
Right after CA, Texas is the highest GDP state. It's also has beautiful clouds and sunsets.
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I have an ingenious strategy.

I sit like a sack of potatoes with depression at my desk, skewed at an angle wedged into a corner, so I'm always at a ~30 degree angle to my keyboard and monitor. Oh, and I should be wearing glasses but I don't, so I hunch over my laptop like a jealous gorilla with a mean squint. I make sure that my battered old cheap piece of shit desk chair is at all times wobbling, and regularly pick at the padding for that authentic bolty "I'm sitting on a goddamned plank" feel.

This genius move has left me with a twisted spine and a neck that likes to seize up in spectacular fashion from time to time.

So, basically, do the exact opposite to what I do. It's pretty amazing how quickly "temporary" "discomfort" turns into long-term physical distress.
I guess this shows how deeply corrupt the leadership of the APA is? Realistically how would they say no to this?
John Green: “I don't care how many people watch something I make.”
There are so many of us that are sick and tired of reading this kind of stuff and knowing that no one will be held accountable. The general population is so apathetic, it's hard to gain any traction.

What can we do? Seriously? Can we start a kickstarter to raise funds, to hire lawyers or whatever is needed to make sure people are sent to jail over this? What can we do that will make an impact, without relying on the ignorant mainstream public? There's got to be something
The wikipedia article you posted doesn't support your claim. Where are you seeing these "Hundreds of people who were legally in the US, were literally picked up off of American streets"