May 18th, 2009
Mouse House Update 1.1.2 was approved on sunday night.
New in version 1.1.2
User Requested Features:
Music!
Saved game slots.
Level Select Screen.
Swipe Control is now default.
Adjusted learning curve by reordering levels.
Added 5 new levels.
Bug Fixes:
Tiled Floors crack now.
Fixed Random Crash on death.
You can no longer sneak by bees when pushing a ball.
Engine Improvements:
New culling system for visibility and hit detection which will allow
for giant levels in future games.
Faster hit detection do to culling.
Faster Sprite spawning.
Faster Math engine.
Faster level / Screen load times.
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March 10th, 2009
Looks like Mouse House sales are about back to where they started before ijiggle.
Here is a final graph.
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March 7th, 2009
1. Finally got sound working on the Wii and learned how to pack up a project for distribution. Hopefully this means I have all the really hard stuff in the port down now. 
2. Here is the Mouse House sales curve up and down based on the huge boost we received when iJiggles the top FREE app from 2 weeks ago gave Mouse House a mention in its’ itunes description. Sales Graph
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February 22nd, 2009
On the top 100 Games Sales lists that is.
Positions were #100 US, #66 UK, 75 IE.
Update… actually we knocked off the US top 100 4 hours later 
Whats even worse I was talking to the author of the app that did it on IRC when it happened. LOL.
Our actual position on the Adventure genre seems not to have gone down.
Anyhow current ranks look like.
2009/02/23
US Adventure 10
UK Adventure 8 Top Games 65
IE Adventure 4 Top Games 40 Top Apps 64
2009/02/25
US Adventure 12
UK Adventure 8 Top Games 61
IE Adventure 8 Top Games 54
2009/02/28
100 Top Games lists in UK, IE, NZ now.
Getting steady Sales from those and holding on to ranks.
Weekend unit sales look like…
2009/02/18 - 217 - $148
2009/02/19 - 275 - $183
2009/02/20 - 376 - $249
2009/02/21 - 416 - $273
2009/02/22 - 354 - $228
2009/02/23 - 262 - $171
2009/02/24 - 230 - $148
2009/02/25 - 173 - $108
2009/02/26 - 156 - $99
2009/02/27 - 169 - $105
2009/02/28 - 220 - $137
2009/02/01 - 226 - $143
Or about $1997 profit in 12 days.
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February 22nd, 2009
Mouse House is now fully playable on the Wii.
Nintendo has granted us preliminary accecptance to be on Wiiware also.
Mouse House Ships off to Ninteno around april 14th.
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February 19th, 2009
Mouse House / BANG2D are now up and running on the Wii.
After an 18 hour work binge I have the entire graphics system up and running perfectly.
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January 11th, 2009
I am currently working on:
1. Port of BANG2D / Mouse House to Wiiware the down load based Wii distribution system. Right now the engine has been ported to Code Warrior and is compiling for Wii. Next up I have to fill in a few abstraction layers for the Wii, example reading data from files. Right now I’m just a bit hung up on which APIs I should be using
2. Improving the engine. There were a few features missing from the engine that are need for doing games past the scale of Mouse House. Examples are a fast culling system for drawing and for hit detection. This week I implemented a 2D Spatial Hash Table that basically divides 2D space into a loose grid of cell based on a Hash value. This results in like a x100 speed up for collision detection no matter how large the tile map or level size is.
3. We have a few more games in the works based on variations of the Mouse House engine. Alex has started work on levels and art for them.
4. Im slowly designing a number of data driven frameworks for different genres of games. This includes 1 for RPGs and 1 for games like that lawyer game on the DS.
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January 11th, 2009
Changes:
- Sped up engine hit detection a bit.
- Removed the annoying confirmation boxes about using GPS location.
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January 11th, 2009
01/01/2008 - Units 95 - Price $.99 - Gross $94.05 - Profit $62.55
01/02/2008 - Units 110 - Price $.99 - Gross $108.90 - Profit $73.01
01/03/2008 - Units 87 - Price $.99 - Gross $86.13 - Profit $54.23
01/04/2008 - Units 75 - Price $.99 - Gross $74.25 - Profit $47.84
01/05/2008 - Units 64 - Price $.99 - Gross $63.36 - Profit $41.86
01/06/2008 - Units 46 - Price $.99 - Gross $45.54 - Profit $28.78
Last night I changed the price to 1.99$ and tonight an update was approved
So we will see what effect that has next.
01/07/2008 - Units 29 - Price $1.99 - Gross $0.00 - Profit $31.13
This day is off, from price raise
01/08/2008 - Units 52 - Price $1.99 - Profit $70.91
01/09/2008 - Units 37 - Price $1.99 - Profit $49.70
01/10/2008 - Units 52 - Price $1.99 - Profit $67.85
Even though MH is slowly dropping in rank world wide with the price rise and a actively visible update we are making better money on par with some of hour better days with press coverage. The general conclusion for us is that shipping an update is as good as a press story for sales.
Anyhow we are now aiming to make $1000 a month on Mouse House using a combination of weekly updates and sales. 10 Day into January and we are 1/2 there. If things go maybe we can bring in $1200. Maintaining that for a year would generate a nice $12k-18K, Which might not sound like a whole lot for a full time developer. But living up here in Minnesota it is possible to live happily on 35K a year. Shipping 2 more products on par with Mouse House should get us past our break even point for 1 full time employee. Now that our engine technology and tools are completed and proven this should go fairly fast.
01/12/2008 - 01/24/2008
Settled down to a steady 40 copies a day at 1$ or around 30$ a day profit.
Raising the price to 2.99$ only made of lose a lot of ranks.
Lowering the price to .99$ has let us slowly gain ranks world wide.
MH is now 22 on the Adventure list in the UK for example.
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December 22nd, 2008
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