well, i just started game dev 4 months ago, so my game ideas aren't really original, its just a clone of some games that i like so i use them as motivators to kick start myself.
having to think of a game ideas and learn the tools at the same time is too much.. and if that idea doesn't come in, its basically sitting duck (at least thats me for the last few years.. no idea -> no game dev -> no game dev skills) thats why I've decided to remake existing games to master the tools, and then from there i can branch into my own sector.. this way, i am at least learning how to do things and when that idea blinks, i am ready for it.
so the games there now, just no one downloading.. which really puzzles me.. i don't think they're all that bad, its not the best, maybe not good, but it's not bad! so why 0 downloads?
With my first game (frenzy fighter [ios]), i thought ok fine, no downloads its probably a boring game, or the icon is bad, and the screenshot sucks.. so then i go and learn unity and attempt to make something more cool, which should get me some users since its a big leap forward.. i finished it to a point where its playable (not complete), made a nice looking icon, created a preview video to test if it was the bad icon/screens from the first game and what do you know... still 0 downloads.
now if i look at the games in the market, there are a lot of apps that is worst that mine (imo) and they have at least 1k downloads.. so mine having 0 just makes 0 sense to me.
so it leads me to conclude that my games have 0 downloads because it is just not visible in the search? but this leads me to the question.. how do i get visibility in the search then? I've tried using keyword tools like appannie, sensor tower, search man, mobildedevhq, copied similar app's description / keywords but its 0 help.
this really discourages me to even build apps if i can't even get 1 person to enjoy it. the last thing i want to do is spend half a year on something and the result is just me myself and i playing it.
and the worst part is, i tell my friend to download my game to play and he tells me he can't find it. so i go and pop in dragon shooter (my 2nd game name) into search and i have to scroll down all the way to position 109 to even see it the first day i publish it.
crossy heroes -
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...s.crossyheroes
dragon shooter -
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d....dragonshooter