Thursday, April 10th

10 Tips for Remote and Controller

We shared 10 Tips for adding remote and game controller support to your Amazon Fire TV games.

One of the most exciting prospects of publishing your game on Amazon Fire TV is that you can run Android games directly on the TV. If you are already building games for Android, you can use the same codebase you currently have, and make that game playable on Amazon Fire TV.

Thursday, April 10th

Here is How Thousands of Apps Are Receiving a Guaranteed $1.50 Banner CPM

Since March 1^st, we have been guaranteeing developers with qualifying apps a $1.50 banner CPM for serving mobile ads through the Amazon Mobile Ad Network.  We shared this week some feedback from developers as well as steps you can take to qualify your own apps for promotion.

Friday, April 11th

More Player Engagement Potential: GameCircle Now Rewards Player Experience across Games

We announced new features to the GameCircle player experience:  (1) expanded player profiles with cross-game experience points, called XP, which allow players to track and share their total play time and (2) GameCircle-created achievements across multiple games, called Badges, which enhance players’ overall GameCircle Profile. 

Players will enjoy these features as they offer new reasons to revisit favorites as well as incentives to try new games.

Friday, April 11^th

Support Amazon Fire TV and Get Extra Appstore Developer Select Program Benefits: 500K Amazon Coins and Enhanced Merchandising

With the announcement of Amazon Fire TV, we have expanded the benefits offered as part of the Appstore Developer Select (ADS) program to increase visibility of apps on Fire TV.  In addition to 500k free mobile ad impressions, enhanced merchandising, Amazon Coins incentives for your customers, and AWS credits (all standard with ADS), qualifying apps that are also compatible with Amazon Fire TV and its hardware controllers will also receive:

• Enhanced On-Device Merchandising: Qualifying apps will have the opportunity to be merchandised via a dedicated category placement on the Amazon Fire TV Appstore home page.
• 500K Amazon Coins Offer per Qualifying App: Amazon will offer 500,000 Amazon Coins ($5,000 value) for each of your qualifying paid apps or apps with in-app purchasing that are compatible with Amazon Fire TV and one of its Amazon hardware controllers (up to 3 apps per developer). You can create campaigns via the Promotions Console to give these Coins away to consumers purchasing any of your paid apps or in-app items.