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- ArcadEd
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- 5 Feb, 2013
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AndyWatson Have you made sure the Mopub marketplace is shut off for you apps?
Also, I did go ahead and create some in house ads in mopub to direct traffic to my other apps, those help with the fill rate as well.

I really wish cocoon would just offer direct support to admob and iads without the need for the cumbersome MoPub.
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- ArcadEd
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I had to do this too. The default controls seemed backwards to me when going in reverse.
- ArcadEd
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AndyWatson
I have almost the identical scenario to you. My first game was done with eclipse, phonegap and the admob plugin. Life is good there. Fill rate is good and the payout is nice.

My next 2 games I went with Concoon/mopub and I had a very similar problem to you. Low fill rates, ect. Basically what I did was turn off the Marketplace for those apps. I personally don't think the marketplace is worth it.

So for my Droid apps, I only have the admob network running and it's around 88.8 percent fill for the last 14 days.

My iOS apps I just have iAds working. Those fill rates are around 78% for the last 14 days.

I am really hoping phonegap implements some kind of direct canvas because I love having the build control of using eclipse and xcode for my final builds.
- ArcadEd
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Great, and your welcome.
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YEah, it's been on the windows, apple and google stores for several months now. It was the first game I finished and published :).

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-search-4-kids/id564990078?ls=1&mt=8
- ArcadEd
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My latest tutorial shows a way. Although the tutorial is about making buttons, I do show you how to open another layout.

youtube.com/watch
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The issue did seem to be something with the Metro plugin. I'm curious if anyone else using was able to pass certification. I was only using it to display ads and set a roaming storage. Once I removed it and went back to the official win8 plugin, the game pass the certification.
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- 30 Jan, 2013
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Create a new variable called pDifference for example.

Set pDifference to abs(player1-Player2)

abs gives the absolute value, so even -5 will return 5
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Create Growing Sprite Buttons.
- ArcadEd
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- 29 Jan, 2013
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See this post:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/tile-based-digging-games_topic44909.html

Also this forum post has tons of useful information:

http://www.scirra.com/forum/how-do-ifrequently-asked-questions_topic45416.html
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Ashley,

I will try to resubmit without the metro plugs, the official plugin and just have ads always run and see if that clears it up. Thanks.
- ArcadEd
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I'm updating one of my games, changing it to free and adding Ad support via the Metro plugin.

I have never had the game lock up in my tests via the simulator or desktop. The App Certification passes the app with 0 issues. However the last 2 times I uploaded to Microsoft it fails stating the game locks up. The only thing I did to the game was add the Metro plugin.

Off course they don't tell me where the game is locking up. Any advice?