Happy new year everybody!

Downloads for my apps and games seemed to spike in the beginning of the year, only to be followed by a bug that dropped the elevated number to zero. I am pretty sure it is a bug:)

Today MonsterUp and MonsterUp lite are featured in the biggest available Marketplaces for Windows Phone 7. And we mean the biggest, with more than 1,3 billion people in them. New Zealand, India, Hong Kong SAR and the USA all saw MonsterUp in their Featured Games lists. Not bad, especially with the big sequel in development!

So enjoy the little monsters of MonsterUp 1,3 billion people! You know you want too, and you know you can’t resist even more now with the reduced price!

MonsterUp was first released on January 5th, 2011. At the end of the same year, it is still soaring and we thank all MonsterUppers for that! Here is the situation at this time.

For the game’s category (action and adventure), in our home Marketplace in Switzlerand, the game is in the top 10 of the Paid apps. For all the games in the same Marketplace, the game is on the 36th place. In both cases, MonsterUp has outranked huge XBOX Live games like  Gravity Guy, Flight Control, Super Monkey Ball, Pac Man, Bejeweled, Katamari, Earthworm Jim and many many more. The game’s performance in the chards was also more or less consistent throughout the year, so thank you for that.

The rankings for the games were also pretty high, from all Marketplaces. The year ends with the average of more than 250 people that ranked the game being more than 9/10. Thank you again for your support!

Of course, during the year, MonsterUp was named App of the Month for January 2011 by BestWp7Games.com, it was a finalist in the Top 10 of Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in L.A. and we were invited to talk about WP7 games development in 3 universities in Switzerland and Greece as well as a national TV technology show, Escape , in Greece. So all in all, it was a good year.

A quick update about the sequel, MonsterUp Adventures. The new game is going to improve and expand in every aspect possible, from Sounasdesign amazing polished graphics, to many new levels and ways to play. Expect all your favorite characters to return and be ready to face ever rising challenges in order to save Trelloland from the evil that wants to take over the happiness of its inhabitants!

We can’t say much at the moment, but we will keep you up to date when we can!