Help us collect Icy Tower download stats and awards - Winner announced!

[Magnus]

We need your help!

We are looking to find as good partnership deals as possible for Icy Tower, for example distribution of the mobile game. To do that we need to be able to show our partners the huge amount of downloads Icy Tower have, and that’s where you come in to the picture.

We need your help to find all the places on the web that publicly shows the download stats for Icy Tower, and to post the info in this thread. And also we need to find all the awards that Icy Tower has been honored with over the years.


Follow this model for downloads when you post your findings in this thread:

Site: download.com (Do not include www, but the “com” part)
Amount of downloads: 3677143
Region: North America (Specify if it is: North America, South America, Europe, Russia, Asia or Australia)
URL: http://www.download.com/Icy-Tower/3000-2099_4-10075060.html?tag=lst-1
(We need a direct URL to the place of download to confirm it)


Follow this model for awards when you post your findings in this thread:

Site: PCWorld.com (Do not include www, but the “com” part)
Award: Top free fun file of 2006
Region: North America (Specify if it is: North America, South America, Europe, Russia, Asia, Australia)
URL: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/collection/collid,1387-order,1/files.html
(We need a direct URL to the place of download to confirm it)

Please support us make Icy Tower even bigger by helping us out with this. Every contribution is greatly appreciated.

Wondering who the heck I am? Please read my introductory post here: http://www.freelunchdesign.com/smf/index.php?topic=2720.0

Best regards,

/Magnus


The list of downloads so far:

Web site   Downloads   Contributor
      
download.com   3 257 720   Muskedunder
software.nana10.co.il   3 220 414   Johanp
softonic.com   562 783   Cruxx
Instalki.pl   470 232   Vinyanov
unidownload.com   167 504   Vinyanov
download.chip.eu   1 852   Muskedunder
filevolution.com   4 316   Muskedunder
chip.de   41 579   Muskedunder
editingarchive.com   4 959   Muskedunder
softonic.de   50 213   Xiagan
planetfreeplay.com   505   Muskedunder
cnet.com.au   19 607   Muskedunder
gezginler.net   65 234   Muskedunder
fileplanet.com   80   Muskedunder
demonews.com   1 551   Muskedunder
pcworld.com   261 334   Muskedunder
playgamers.com   28 473   Muskedunder
software-portal.faz.net   49 243   Muskedunder
baixaki.ig.com.br   120 350   Muskedunder
programsaati.com   669   Muskedunder
freeware-game-downloads.com   2 401   Muskedunder
winload.de   40 426   Muskedunder
cnet.co.uk   494   Muskedunder
gameupdates.org   235   Muskedunder
uptodown.com   13 083   Cruxx
zdnetasia.com   2 021   Muskedunder
clubic.com   8 403   Muskedunder
winsoftware.de   6 408   Muskedunder
superdownloads.uol.com.br   17 996   Muskedunder
download-free.programas-gratis.net   84 604   Muskedunder
downloadtr.com   14 832   Muskedunder
download.freenet.de (version 1.3.1)   151 008   Muskedunder
download.freenet.de (version 1.0)   5 765   Muskedunder
catchgamer.no   1 455   Muskedunder
toolster.de   13 902   Xiagan
kurpi.com   6 728   Muskedunder
spawnpoint.com   1 111   Muskedunder
pcwelt.de   2 182   Muskedunder
pcfreunde.de   658   Muskedunder
terrabrasil.softonic.com   12 152   Muskedunder
ziggi.com   261   Muskedunder
freeware-download.com   2 955   Xiagan
freegamez.at   473   Muskedunder
arsivindir.com   871   Muskedunder
downloadmix.de   91   Muskedunder
indirlan.com   251   Muskedunder
sanook.com   6 376   Muskedunder
gratis-spiele.de   447   Muskedunder
thor.hu   1 374   Muskedunder
2cool4me.de   38 693   Muskedunder
software.bild.de   11 036   Muskedunder
k-files.de   163   Muskedunder
spiele-download.t-online.com   25 267   Muskedunder
egames.de   855   Muskedunder
downloads.de   6 254   Xiagan
asia.cnet.com   2 021   Muskedunder
cnetfrance.fr   20 383   Muskedunder
reloaded.org   1 391   Muskedunder
brothersoft.com   1 782   Muskedunder
wingameonline.com   1 013   Muskedunder
dobreprogramy.pl   326 581   Vinyanov
pobieralnia.pl   38 562   Vinyanov
freegame.cz   10 922   John Beak
icytower.cz   1 483   John Beak
icy.pl   82 564   Vinyanov
caiman.us   4 822   Miketinovic
software.techrepublic.com.com   215   wolverine4claws
pcgaming.ws   8 751   wolverine4claws
software4free.nl   307   Baswai
pobieralnia.org   3 507   Vinyanov
maxprograms.pl   1 597   Vinyanov
softmania.pl   13 109   Vinyanov
dobrepliki.pl   6 949   Vinyanov
tweaks.pl   524   Vinyanov
ehumorek.pl   646   Vinyanov
programpolskie.pl   510   Vinyanov
twojegry.pl   1 509   Vinyanov
victorygames.eu   18 673   Vinyanov
psp-team.pl   2 113   Vinyanov
pcmag.co.uk   14 595   Muskedunder
gofull.se   1 116   Xiagan
freegamesite.de   2 272   Xiagan
netzwelt.de   506   Xiagan
pctipp.ch   12 610   Xiagan
softonic.com/s/   12 668   Xiagan
softonic.fr   3 797   Xiagan
infos-du-net.com   42 079   Xiagan
telecharges-jeux-gratuits.com   1 299   Xiagan
zdnet.fr   6 816   Xiagan
uptodown.com (Spain version)   49 711   Xiagan
juegos-gratis.net   3 494   Xiagan
chip.eu   529   John Beak
dwn.cz   102   John Beak
instaluj.cz   5 456   John Beak
freehry.doupe.cz   3 731   John Beak
download.ba   137   Stipe
mininova.org   531   D_vonk
softoman.ru   455   Xiagan
gamemodern.qsp.ru   270   Xiagan
icytower.org   211   Xiagan
mizimace.de   30 914   Xiagan
icytower.unas.cz   990 535   John Beak
      
Total downloads:   10 543 617   




The list of awards so far:

Site   Awards
   
PCWorld   Top free Fun files of 2006
Brothersoft   Editors pick
The Underdogs   Top Dog!
Allegro Anual Awards   Best 2D Showcase, Best Overall / Must-Download Game of the Year, Best Soundeffects, Best Soundtrack, Coolest New Character, Most Professional and Best Platformer
1up.com   101 Best free games on the web
Editing archive   File of the week

[Cruxx]

Hey

1)
 Site -icy-tower.en.softonic.com/
Amount of Downloads - 551,555 ( as of December 18th 2007)
Region- Not sure, possibly america or england.
URL - http://icy-tower.en.softonic.com/

2)
 
 Site - icy-tower.uptodown.com/en
 Amount of Downloads - 12.685
 Region - North America
 URL - http://icy-tower.uptodown.com/en/


 Will try to find more and post it. I think xiagan or john will know all the awards.

[John Beak]

Here goes mine, from a Czech game download site. I wrote the (p)review btw.

Site: FreeGame.cz
Amount of downloads: _{4891 (v1.3) + 6031 (v1.0) =} 10922
Region: Czech Republic (it's central Europe in case you were wondering)
URL:
http://www.freegame.cz/game.php?id=3553 (v1.3)
http://www.freegame.cz/game.php?id=383 (v1.0)

And the Czech Icy Tower site, owned by myself.

Site: IcyTower.cz
Amount of downloads: 1483
Region: Czech Republic
URL: http://www.icytower.cz/?lang=en&page=download

[Vinyanov]

Hey, John, you have no observable download counter on your site. But, Icy.pl has none either. Well, to the point. Icy.pl has a separate subdomain for download. I can give you the number of downloads (non-evidenced, based on our internal counter) and the number of visits (evidenced, based on an external service). Both counters were started around 7th August, 2007.

Site: Icy.pl download
Amount of downloads:

• 82564
• 526 daily
• until 11th January, 2008

Amount of site visits:

• 806515
• 3682 daily
• until 12 March, 2008

Region: Poland
URL: http://download.icy.pl

[John Beak]

I do. In the statistics. It's just that they are not available to public
Will add visit count to my post soon.

[Miketinovic]

I would wrote for Acid-Play on Icy Tower, but I cannot find the "Amount of downloads".

[Magnus]

Thank you all for helping out. The more stats we can get, the better. And if you can find out download stats from sites that doesn't publicly display them, that's great too.

Also, all the awards and honors would be great to get together.

Maybe I should try posting a collection of all your findings in my first post, so it can be summarized easy? What do you think?

[Vinyanov]

Maybe I should try posting a collection of all your findings in my first post, so it can be summarized easy?

Why not? Or maybe you could sum the downloads, total. Anyway, I checked some Polish general-software sites. I just scanned first five pages of polish Google results, for the icy tower keyword. I excluded some sites with relatively small numbers.

• Site: instalki.pl
  Amount of downloads: 470219
  URL: http://www.instalki.pl/gry/download/zrecznosciowe/Icy_Tower.php
  
• Site: dobreprogramy.pl
  Amount of downloads: 324581
  URL: http://dobreprogramy.pl/index.php?dz=17&pg=50&Icy+Tower+1.3.1
  
• Site: pobieralnia.pl
  Amount of downloads: 38562
  URL: http://www.pobieralnia.pl/plik-768-icy-tower-1.3.html
  

And I also found this site. Not sure about its scope. The authors are Poles, but the interface is multilingual and the domain suggests internationality. I’d say North America.

• Site: unidownload.com
  Amount of downloads: 164504
  URL: http://unidownload.com/filedownload-Icy-Tower_153.html
  

I can think of no awards at the moment, sorry.

[Magnus]

Why not? Or maybe you could sum the downloads, total.

You're right. I will try to do this in a good way, and keep all the stats gathered in my post on top of this page. I will also include who contributed with the link, so everyone can see how much theyve helped out!

I can think of no awards at the moment, sorry.

No problem. Your links were completetly new to me. They boosted Icy Towers download stats up to a staggering 9 millions!

Please come back with more good stuff!

[Xiagan]

It'd be good to see what you already know, because it sucks seeking up awards just to find out, you already know them . I won't have time for search until sunday evening/monday, will check the German sites then. I already wrote to the webmaster of the German Icy Tower site.

[Miketinovic]

Hope one website is enough...

Site: Caiman.us
Amount of downloads: 4822
Region: United States
URL: http://www.caiman.be/gamestats.asp?nr=253

[Magnus]

It'd be good to see what you already know, because it sucks seeking up awards just to find out, you already know them . I won't have time for search until sunday evening/monday, will check the German sites then. I already wrote to the webmaster of the German Icy Tower site.

You're absolutely right. I am trying to finish up my excel sheet to post it, so no onw will have done the research in vain. I will post it today if I can get it to work.

[wolverine4claws]

Site: software.techrepublic.com.com
Amount of downloads: 213
URL: http://software.techrepublic.com.com/download.aspx?docid=222078

Site: pcgaming.ws
Amount of downloads: 8751
URL: http://www.pcgaming.ws/viewgame.php?game=icy_tower

I'm sure you'll be losing at least about a couple of million downloads as a lot of sites don't record the no. of downloads. Meh, sucks ^^

[Baswai]

Site: Software4free
Amount of downloads: 293
URL: http://www.software4free.nl/pakket.php?ID=110

First I could find on google with downloading stats.

[Vinyanov]

Another Google query to determine some sites, in Poland at least:

intitle:"icy tower" intext:(pobran|pobrań)

„Pobranie” means „download” in Polish. May become of some help. But beware, some of the results are mutual mirrors and cannot cumulate. Also, not all sites truly host Icy Tower. Some redirect to another site. When both sites, the redirecting one and the redirected-to one, maintain counters and are included on our list, our total downloads number becomes inaccurate. So we must watch out.