'Thumb Swyper Free' for BlackBerry Has 2nd Weekend in a Row with 1000+ Downloads

This "week" idea has a strong effect on us humans the world over. In the middle of it downloads slowed to a trickle. Thinking once they go down they never come back, we resigned ourselves to the reality of app making in the 2010's. But then-- kapow!-- another big weekend. Not quite the same as the first but still over 1000 of our 3500 or so to date.

And check out the international reach of RIM, something that has been very clear during all this:

The US accounts for less than 10% of downloads, only marginally more than the United Arab Emirates!

Besides RIM's reach part of this is intentional. We did not include lengthy instructions or a title screen or option screen, every thing is iconic and touchable and on a single screen. This means no language in the entire game except for the word "wave" at the bottom tracking the current wave of star attacks, but that is obvious from its context.

This weekend much workage on what will be a full version. First was shoring up the niggling things related to layout and pacing. For instance the slow tally of trees left standing in the early waves. Boring changes to talk about, but it adds up to a tighter experience.

But new content is being worked on-- hear the saws in the background? It is harder than we thought to follow up this simple game, everything we do seems like it make it more complicated. Since we'd like to get it out near the BlackBerry 10 launch we likely will ship the tightened up version with a few modest additions as the first paid version. Please let us know what you'd like to see in the comments, or via Twitter at @PercuniaGames, Facebook  and Google Plus