据悉，由Fairlady Media公司推出的益智类游戏《Bust a Marble》在11月23日投放iPad平台后，通过限时免费促销活动，每日下载量已达1万3千次，在短短几天内就跻身苹果App Store应用榜单的前10名。

Bust a Marble

Fairlady在博客上宣称，“游戏刚发行不久，我们就看到它在App Store的排名迅速上升，在发行第二天，《Bust a Marble》在包括美国在内的20多个国家中都进入游戏前10强行列，在App Store应用中排名第16位……不久之后，这款游戏又成了Game Center的推荐游戏，在动作类、策略类两种游戏列表中均榜上有名。”

通过苹果平台的促销活动，《Bust a Marble》的下载量迅速飙升，从发行第二天的6800次每日下载量狂涨到了第三天的12800次，这种势头持续到了第四天的12500次。

另外Fairlady还宣布，根据统计数据，《Bust a Marble》目前的广告印象展示已超过75万4千次，游戏过程中每60秒展示一次新广告。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

Fairlady’s Bust a Marble takes top 10 App Store spot with 13,000 downloads a day

If you’ve ever wondered just how many downloads it takes to make it into the top ten free apps on the App Store, Fairlady Media is at hand.

Following the release of its marble match up puzzler Bust a Marble on iPad on November 23, the developer has published a number of stats regarding its performance to date – most interestingly, its daily download rate.

Eye on the prize

“Immediately after launch, we watched the game rise in the App Store rankings,” Fairlady says in a post on its blog.

“By the end of the second day, Bust a Marble was in the top 10 games in over 20 countries, including the United States. It was listed as the number 16 App in the App Store.

“Shortly thereafter, Apple featured the game in Top Game Center Games, New And Noteworthy Games in both the Action and Strategy Games categories.”

Ode to Apple

It’s this promotion from Apple that acted as a catalyst for a surge in downloads, it would appear, with daily rates leaping from around 6,800 on day two to more than 12,800 downloads on day three.

The high rate continued into day four with around 12,500 downloads – enough to place Bust a Marble at number eight in the free games countdown for two days straight.

What’s more, Fairlady also claims that, based on usage statistics, Bust a Marble has served more than 754,000 ad impressions to date, with a new ad served up during every 60 seconds of gameplay.（source:pocketgamer）