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Hex FRVR is one of the finest time wasting games I've found on any medium. First thing I install on any Android device.
As you guys loved the original version of the game, here is version 2.6.0 with many improvements! Cross post from here.
TL;DR of below About two months ago I shared this post to r/Gaming about Hex FRVR and the game instantly took off, peaking at more than 5500 concurrent online. Reddit made my game huge and turned me into a successful indie developer.
Play the game, or read on for a story on the power of Reddit!
Before I shared Hex FRVR I was quite proud of my previous daily record of 31k visitors. On the day I shared the game, I reached 182k unique visitors and as people kept sharing the game, I eventually peaked at 410k daily visitors a few days later! These days the daily amount of players have stabilised at around 170k. Here is a graph
While that is amazing by itself, it's pretty clear that the gaming press reads Reddit (Hi!) as the game was quickly picked up by CNET, PC Gamer, Venture Beat, and many more (Anyone wants a full list?)
Most importantly, the shear volume of traffic made the game an economic success as well. Even though I only have advertisement in the iOS and Android versions, have disabled video ads (I hate those!), and only show ads about 30% of the time, when you start a new game. Hex FRVR still makes an amazing ~$600/day from in-game advertising. Not to bad for a simple puzzle game! [Spoiler](/s "Turn off internet for the mobile app to remove all advertisement for free!")
As the game was pretty new when I originally posted. It did have some major bugs bugs and left a lot of features to be desired. However /r/Gaming was amazing at giving feedback and quite a lot of the suggestions and ideas from the original thread, has now been incorporated into the game. Here is a list of the major improvements:
However, the success have had one downside. Today there is about 150 clones of the game on the market across app stores. And while I am actually 100% ok with people re-implementing the game, learning along the way and even making a more popular game than mine, about 40% of the games have straight up stolen music, graphics or even the entire game. Fighting that has been tiring and there don't seem to be an effective process for doing so on all platforms.
HexFRVR is pretty good and it's free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frvr.hex&hl=en
Here you go for free :)