Upcoming Monster Cache Releases

It's been about 2 weeks since our Monster Cache promotions at Planet Comicon and it looks like our momentum on the sign ups from the show has ended.  We're at 71 users on the Legends board now, so that makes 29 new Legends that caught monsters after the show.  Lots more people than that downloaded the app and registered though, they just never caught a monster.

One of the things we learned (or actually already knew, but it became even more clear) is that we should make the sign up process easier, specifically with requiring people to verify their email accounts.  The point of the email verification was so that people couldn't refer fake accounts and then sign up with the fake account to get a referral bonus.  So now we're not going to require account confirmation unless you've been referred by someone else.  Once the account is confirmed, both users will get a bonus.

So I'm going to work this weekend on an immediate Version 1.3 release for Android and iPhone:
-- simplify registration process
-- fix android 4.1.2 bug with map
-- new monster sound (got good feedback that current siren noise was scary while driving, so Matt made new sound)
-- Monster Binoculars to let you see further on map
-- new In App Purchase pricing
-- some new badges
-- info windows for monsters that shows their Level

The new In App Purchase price changes are motivated by one of our new users who bought our $8.99 package of 1000 coins and used them way faster than we expected people would.  Still not sure what the new price offerings will be, but we're going to make some even higher ones.

Then in two months or so, we hope to release a version that has:
-- a unique sound per monster, or at least per level.  That will be a big but hopefully fun task, probably for Matt.
-- users can find piles of coins
-- (maybe) users can place statues
-- try to improve database performance on finding monsters

Then once I'm convinced the database performance is okay, I'll make some monsters in Europe :-)