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 TUAW gave us a nice write up.

Mouse House is a very adorable and surprisingly complicated puzzle game from Plaid World Studios. At first look, it seems like a very simple game with graphics that appear to be on part with Super Nintendo games. But, it’s actually surprisingly tough and addictive.

The game’s premise is simple — eat cheese and progress through the unlocked doors once they open. Along the way, you have to dodge bees, evil rats, crumbling floors and try not to get pinned in a corner by pushing balls the wrong way. It looks simple, but isn’t. After completely the 8-level tutorial, it took me a few retries to get through the next few levels.

The sound effects are truly what make this game stand out. The little noises from eating cheese and getting through an open door successfully are quite adorable. The controls are easy to use — tap the screen in a vertical or horizontal line from where the mouse is and he’ll move to that spot. There’s no game soundtrack other than the sound effects. Instead, you can listen to the music already loaded on your iPhone or iPod Touch and the sound effects will play over the music. However, I enjoy the effects so much I simply play without the music.

We received some nice press from toucharcade.com on the Mouse House Update.

This led to a nice boost in sales and climb in rank on the app store Sales Update below…

Mouse House have been updated to 1.1 and is on sale for .99$

New in version 1.1

User Requested Features:

New control systems:
1. Screen relative tap control.
2. Swipe based control.
3. Tuned mouse relative control to screen out non accurate taps.

Sound FX.
Sound FX can play over user music.
Company Splash Screen stays up for the whole loading time.
RPG text box can be filled in with a tap.

Engine Improvements:
Switch to threading vs timers.
Engine is now around 10 fps faster.
User Input is now responsive even under low frame rate.
Added 2 Metric tracking libs for better tuning
Game tracks
User Location
Device Type
Time played
Time spent per level
Top levels reached
Preferred Control modes etc

Bug Fixes:
Garbage Collection leak in level and Particle System fixed.
Particle hearts for Slime turned back on.
Faster FPS allowed for more advanced particle effects like the Mac/PC version.
Particles now GLOW properly.
All Particles are brighter.
Slimes now poll A* less.
Bees now shoot sooner.
Max Volume for sound FX works.
Cracked floors crack a bit better.
Tuned mouse control
Fixed engine time bugs.

Since people keep asking

11/17/2008 - Units  5 - Price $1.99 - Gross $9.95  - Profit $7.0
11/18/2008 - Units  5 - Price $1.99 - Gross $9.95  - Profit $7.0
11/19/2008 - Units  4 - Price $4.99 - Gross $19.96  - Profit $14.0
11/20/2008 - Units  3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95  - Profit $10.5
11/21/2008 - Units  5 - Price $4.99 - Gross $24.95  - Profit $17.5
11/22/2008 - Units  2 - Price $4.99 - Gross $9.98  - Profit $7.0
11/23/2008 - Units  4 - Price $4.99 - Gross $19.96  - Profit $14.0
11/24/2008 - Units  3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95  - Profit $10.5
11/25/2008 - Units  3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95  - Profit $10.5
11/26/2008 - Units  3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95  - Profit $10.5
11/27/2008 - Units  2 - Price $4.99 - Gross $9.98  - Profit $7.0
11/28/2008 - Units  4 - Price $4.99 - Gross $19.96  - Profit $14.0
11/29/2008 - Units  5 - Price $4.99 - Gross $24.95  - Profit $17.5
11/30/2008 - Units  3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95  - Profit $10.5
12/01/2008 - Units  5 - Price $4.99 - Gross $24.95  - Profit $17.5
12/02/2008 - Units  3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95  - Profit $10.5
12/03/2008 - Units  4 - Price $4.99 - Gross $19.96  - Profit $14.0
12/04/2008 - Units  3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95  - Profit $10.5
12/05/2008 - Units  0? - Price $4.99 - Gross $0.00  - Profit $0.0
12/06/2008 - Units  2 - Price $4.99 - Gross $9.98  - Profit $7.0
12/07/2008 - Units  1 - Price $4.99 - Gross $4.99  - Profit $3.5
12/08/2008 - Units  1 - Price $4.99 - Gross $4.99  - Profit $3.5
12/09/2008 - Units  3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95  - Profit $10.5
12/10/2008 - Units  1 - Price $4.99 - Gross $4.99  - Profit $3.5

Sales dropping with the big influx of new apps for Xmas in the store?

12/11/2008 - Units  4 - Price $4.99 - Gross $19.96  - Profit $14.0
12/12/2008 - Units  3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95  - Profit $10.5
12/13/2008 - Units  6 - Price $4.99 - Gross $29.94  - Profit $20.5
12/14/2008 - Units  2 - Price $4.99 - Gross $9.98  - Profit $7.0
12/15/2008 - Units  3 - Price $4.99 - Gross $14.95  - Profit $10.5

Launched First Update here has 3 sales and 21 Free Upgrade Down loads.
Sales price set to $.99
Lets hope those Upgrades count towards sales ranking. Thought I am sure 21
of them in the US is not enough to register on even the bottom of the top 100 list.

12/16/2008 - Units  153 - Price $.99 - Gross $151.47  - Profit $108.0
With the Update + Price Drop + Press on toucharcade.com this gets us up to #61 on the puzzle chart and #7 on rpgs
Number #61 on puzzles is almost far enough up to actually matter.
Maybe that will generate some more sales.

12/17/2008 - Units  75 - Price $.99 - Gross $74.25  - Profit $47.09
12/18/2008 - Units  51 - Price $.99 - Gross $50.49  - Profit $31.43

12/19/2008 - Units  108 - Price $.99 - Gross $106.92  - Profit $72.70
Two more press stories came out here.

12/20/2008 - Units  154 - Price $.99 - Gross $152.46  - Profit $98.72
12/21/2008 - Units  105 - Price $.99 - Gross $103.95  - Profit $69.00
12/22/2008 - Units  84 - Price $.99 - Gross $83.16  - Profit $54.52

12/23/2008 - Units  70 - Price $.99 - Gross $69.03  - Profit $46.58
12/24/2008 - Units  49 - Price $.99 - Gross $48.51  - Profit $32.04
12/25/2008 - Units  134 - Price $.99 - Gross $132.66  - Profit $88.23
12/26/2008 - Units  124 - Price $.99 - Gross $122.76  - Profit $79.69
12/27/2008 - Units  72 - Price $.99 - Gross $71.28  - Profit $46.23
12/28/2008 - Units  66 - Price $.99 - Gross $65.34  - Profit $44.63
12/29/2008 - Units  33 - Price $.99 - Gross $32.67  - Profit $23.83
12/30/2008 - Units  79 - Price $.99 - Gross $78.21  - Profit $50.95
12/31/2008 - Units  97 - Price $.99 - Gross $96.03  - Profit $64.41