The Samsung Wave – the only bada OS device on the market – is on sale since the beginning of June and seems to already have many adopters, if we believe those figures.
Since the beginning of the month (13 days) ARDefender (free on bada OS) has been installed on 50025 Wave phones all over the world. An average of 3,848 downloads a day.
If we classify by region, we see that: GLB: 10345, DEU: 9001 (7th), FRA: 7739 (14th), CHN: 4311 (9th), ESP: 3895 (4th), GBR: 3087 (8th), POL: 2699 (3rd), ITA: 1861 (6th), RUS: 1547 (4th), TUR: 1485 (6th), HKG: 1440 (4th), NLD: 1005 (12th), Rest of the World: 1610
I guess GLB means “global”, don’t know exactly what’s that.
In parenthesis, I put the current ranking in the top application. Polish honors us by putting ARDefender at third place in most downloaded applications through good media coverage (dailytech.pl, pda.pl, samsungbada.pl).
French people snub us ^^.
As a conclusion, I think Germany and France are the countries where the Samsung Wave works best. More generally, Western Europe, East Europe, China and Russia represent almost all of the market.
The downloads are almost nonexistent in America (Canada, Mexico, Argentina …). But we were unable to submit our game to Brazil and South Korea because because we did not have appropriate certificates (local age rating certificates like PEGI).
If you want to develop on this platform, consider the localization in German, French, Spanish and Chinese.
ARDefender is an Augmented Reality Game, involving a tower, various weapons and nasty opponents bugging you on your desk. Simply move your phone to target the enemies, it’s magical! The game uses your camera phone and a piece a paper that you printed.
Yes, an authentic shmup (shoot’em up), a mix between danmaku & oldskool style, soon on your Smartphone or Nintendo DSi :
It’s just preview but it will be available in few weeks on iPhone & Samsung Wave, and then on Symbian, Android, WinMo 6.1, 6.5 & DSiWare (depend on Nintendo validation).
The int13 team is working since a few months on a very exciting project with Parrot. This project will be unveiled today during the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas.
ARDrone is a quite unusual toy, it hovers in the air with the help of its four rotors, remote controlled by the iPhone and stabilized by the complex flying software made by the R&D team at Parrot.
We’ve added a bit of magic with ARWiz, our Augmented Reality library, tuned and partially redesigned to meet the unusual constraints of this project.
We also created a game demo running on the iPhone.
More details and videos of the game will come, stay tuned! :)