Much to the surprise of the community, FortressCraft has done extremely well in the first week after its April 8th release.
In the US, it was #3 on the Xbox Live Marketplace best-selling list, beating AAA titles such as "Call of Duty: Black Ops", "Homefront", and "Rockband 3".
In the UK it got an even warmer reception where it was ranked #2, and in Canada it was an amazing #1 on the best selling list.
FortressCraft is now the fastest selling Xbox Live Indie Game of all time, with a substantial 16,000 copies sold on the first day. Over the first 5 days, it generated more revenue than the current biggest success on the Indie Games channel, "I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MBIES 1N IT!!!1", made in the last year.
FortressCraft has also set a new record in the conversion ratio of trials to actual purchases of the game on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel, which are usually below 10% for all games. Currently, Fortresscraft has a massive 70% conversion ratio.
All this is a significant accomplishment for the developer, ProjectorGames, as they realise the magnitude of their early success could mean bigger and better things for the game, and the XBLIG community as a whole, as FortressCraft attracts a whole new audience to the channel.
Perhaps the most striking statistic may be that during the launch weekend it sold more copies per day than the average daily sales of indie giant "MineCraft".
