As a new year begins, it’s time to recap what happened during previous year. During these days, I saw a lot of people publishing MochiAds‘s 2009 CPM. I have to say you must not trust such kind of statistic because CPM may vary a lot according to two variables: 1) The number of impressions Sometimes … Top 40 Countries giving the best MochiAds CPM in 2009
When you run a Flash game portal or a Flash game official site, you normally place ads everywhere hoping someone will notice it. Obviously the most interesting place where to place ads is already taken by the game itself, so we are going to create a javascript preloader that will show an ad for 15 … Placing ads before a game loads with jQuery
We all know when you released a game, submitting it to game portals is a very important task if you want your game to be popular. So the question is: where should I submit my game? You can find a lot of game portals lists around the web, but this one includes only portals able … 35+ game portals that can give your game at least 100K views
If Vadim Starygin does not sould familiar, then you’ll probably know this guy as Badim, the owner of Elite Games and the guy behind Elite Forces series. Badim allowed me to publish his recap of two years as indie developer and I think you’ll find it very interesting. Introduction Two years I have worked as … Case study: Vadim Starygin’s total revenue from last two years
I would like you to play BarBalance It’s a Box2D game made for the 60 seconds to fame contest built around Stabilize! concept. You can follow the various steps during the creation of this game at this post and the links you will find in it (I won’t fill this post with links…) You probably … Play BarBalance, my latest game
I am very happy to share this milestone with you! Yesterday I reached the $100 goal with MochiAds. It took me more than two years of game design and promotion, but finally I am one of the guys that made it. This is another proof the blog is a great resource for everybody trying to … Milestone: reached $100 with MochiAds
I received a shout from Barry White (do you remember GameJacket?) about an interesting tournament made by Flash Game Developers LinkedIn group and Come2Play with $8,000 in prizes. Original press release: « Come2Play has teamed up with the LinkedIn Flash Game Developers group to bring you an awesome Flash Game Competition! Just integrate their API … Flash Game Developers LinkedIn group and Come2Play Flash game competition
Research by EEDAR has shown that a high marketing spend increases gross revenue three times more than high review scores. The perception that high scores are crucial to sales is a myth, said EEDAR’s Jesse Divnich speaking at the Montreal International Games Summit, and developers should realise the cold fact that a poor quality game … Marketing influences game revenue three times more than high scores
With the so-called “Web 2.0” and the “social network era”, just making a game and publishing it on various portals couldn’t be enough. Some days ago we saw how Bomb Digger allows to play extra levels on its official site, now it’s time to introduce you a more complete project. Do you remember HiRoads developer … HiRoads case study: building a community around a game
How many games have you played around the web allowing you to play only the first levels unless you play them on the official site? I always wondered how people react to this feature, that can be quite an interesting way to drive traffic to your site, where you surely placed a lot of ads. … Bomb Digger case study: releasing a game with extra features if played on the official site
Once upon a time there was Flash Game Friday It was a Flash Game contest held by Mochimedia, and the staff awarded one game a week a $100 prize for being awesome. There were no other rules and no theme. It was simply the staff choosing something they really enjoyed. Now things changed. The original … 60 Seconds to Fame Contest
