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3/2/2012

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Cherry Chaser performed really well, far better than I expected, at one point it was number 12 in the top free cards and casino games on the Android market and has now been downloaded over 500,000 times. I'm really pleased with the success and feel really proud of it.

It has now slipped down to 50th in it's category and what I'm finding a little worrying however is the nature of it's slide back down from prominence in the market. The point at which it stopped being so popular can be seen quite visibly on the graph of downloads on it's market page. I also know what happened at this point.

At that time two reviews appeared on the game's page saying that the game was unstable and/or crashed a lot. It also appears that a lot of Android users marked these reviews as being "helpful" using the market app on their phones. That meant that these two reviews became the first ones seen by people browsing the market looking for a game to download.

There are a couple of reasons that I find this suspicious. The first is that I have never seen the game crash or heard any trusted reports of it crashing. I get crash reports through the market and the crashes that I get represent less than 1% of all user plays (which I can estimate from ad impressions). Both of these negative "helpful" reviews were from Galaxy S2 owners and I have also confirmed that the game runs fine on this device.

The second reason that I am suspicious is that both reviews that complain of the game crashing constantly award the game four stars. That seems very weird to me. However if the market search algorithm favours higher star reviews to highlight then it would make a lot of sense to someone with untoward intentions.

I'm not sure if there is anything I can do about this. Cherry Chaser has still outperformed my hopes and still earns more than I expected so I am not going to get angry about it. If anybody has any ideas or knows anybody who they could share this story with I would be really interested to hear from them. 
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Jp
3/20/2012 06:46:34 am

Never had any crash on my desire with cc. Its a really fun game and I hope you will keep improving it along the way. I think it will really help if you would make the graphics look better! The 'achievements' in the last update are also good improvement, maybe you can add more since I had them all except one in a hour play or something :)

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Rich Woods link
3/21/2012 06:04:01 am

Hi JP,

Thanks for the comments I'm glad you're enjoying the game. A friend of mine thinks that people complaining of crashes were accidentally hitting the "back" button and quitting the game. I've put in a confirmation in the latest version and since then no complaints!

I'm amazed that you got through most of the achievements. I was thinking that some of them were too difficult, I could certainly only get two or three in a hour's playing session. So thanks for the feedback, I now know I don't have to worry about them being too difficult.

I'm planning a version 2 of Cherry Chaser with better graphics made by a professional designer. I'll probably put a lot more achievements in to that version.

Have you found any of the easter eggs? To find the first you simply tap the hold buttons right to left two times. There are a few more and some of them unlock cheat modes.

Cheers!

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Tom Barrister
10/6/2012 04:48:07 pm

The two negative votes were the result of the commercial developers of the pay-to-play slots and casino games: the companies who all-but-force users to buy game-credits or download apps. Not oddly, they've all tightened the algorithms to pay less (and encourage users to buy more credits).

The trick is to get two negative reviews and then have all employees and friends mark it as helpful. You're not the first one they've pulled this on.

That isn't a guess on my part, it's a known fact. I'm surprised Google doesn't do something about it.

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Jaime
7/7/2012 07:38:55 am

Hi! ​​.. I am very attached to his game and I love it. And discovered two Easter eggs, that is, two songs and the cheat mode of watermelon. Is there anyone else? Congratulations on the game and a greeting.

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Matheus Leal Pedroso
8/17/2024 01:25:20 am

Do you still remember the watermelon one?

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Tonya
11/18/2012 07:37:55 pm

It doesn't matter what I do or how hard I try I can't get any cheats or Easter eggs except Twinkle Twinkle . I cam't figure out HELP :-(

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Fiona
5/31/2016 04:20:13 pm

For the happy birthday easter egg, the sequence is from left to right, hold buttons 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2.

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Jawell
9/1/2019 05:29:34 pm

Can anyone tell me please more codes for Easter eggs on the cherry chaser? I'm so interested

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Matheus Leal Pedroso
8/17/2024 01:23:44 am

Since it's been a while, I'll drop another one
It's not really that fun, just 500 coins every time you use it

It's basically Happy Birthday's ending

1 2 1 3 3 2 1 2 1

I really wanna know how to use the fun ones, though
The ones who make gameplay more interesting and with more variety

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