Contracts

A new version was released tonight, the biggest change being Contracts. Users can take out a contract at a specific location.  They can get to that location by clicking on a map, or by entering a address/location name.

Once a contract has been taken out, anyone that places a bomb near the contract point will get a bonus.

Some back-end work needs to be done with this (news, points for who placed it when the contract is fulfilled, etc).  Contracts have always been in the base system, just not directly available on the Android app - "Missions" are just contracts that are auto-gen'd.

App install count has gone to around 7,800. 10k just around the corner!

67k

Working on a movie of the bombs going off... so had to D/L some data.  Noticed that as of this afternoon, 67,082 bombs have been placed. Cool!

5K

Hit 5,099 installs today!

2315

Up to 2,315 installs.  Not bad, for about two weeks on the marketplace!

Players can now hook up to Facebook. FB is fairly annoying, in that they are limiting to 10 posts per user.  That will increase over time, but for a new app, that's it.

First day

Market Place #'s came out a bit ago - PhoneBomber was installed 756 times since around 1:30 AM.  Pretty good! 

Some performance issues on the server - the users aren't seeing it, as AppEngine scales up just fine, but it's eating CPU cycles.

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Huh.  16 users playing in about 10 mins...

Live!

Beta 1 is in the Marketplace.  I pretty much finished up last weekend, and was going to release this coming weekend... but decided I might as well move it.  The only big outstanding I have on this version is Facebook integration.

Give it a try!