Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 This is a big update of the experiment, because lots of interesting things happened since the last one. Let’s start: Goals and targets Obviously every experiment has its goals. I have two different types of goals: hourly income and games played. The … Experiment: monetizing a Flash game – Part 9
When you make a Flash game, unless it hits top portals frontpages (like NewGrounds) and spreads virally, you have to submit it to thousands portals in order to give it some decent exposure. At the moment the best resource about Flash game marketing is Marketing Flash Games: The Other Half of the Battle, but if … Marketing Flash games: email template
What I introduced in the Ramblings about Flash game portals post went live today I am talking about a game portal called Triqui, where you will find all MochiAds games. Well, not exactly “all”, but every game listed in their feeds. Why did I made the millionth Flash games portal? Because I want to play … Play Flash games on Triqui.com
Do you know what’s the so-called vaporware? From Wikipedia: Vaporware is a software or hardware product which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle. Interesting thing… they gave a name to most developers’ habit… starting a project and … Wipe the vaporware out of your life
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 More than a month passed since the last update of the experiment. Now it’s time to show you how things are going. As you can see on the weekly updated widget, my games are still performing well, with the only exception of … Experiment: monetizing a Flash game – Part 8
I am asking myself a question for 4 years. It was summer 2004 when I read for the first time about Flash game sponsorship. Someone at CrazyMonkeyGames was spamming various Flash related forums announcing his company was looking for good game to sponsor. Today there are lots of game portals looking for good (and not … Ramblings about Flash game portals
If you developed a Flash game, you had this problem. Once your game is complete, you want to find a sponsor and get some cash for your hard work. Then, you start submitting the game to various Flash game portals… the first one only accepts form submissions, the second one only accepts mail submissions, the … Find a sponsor for your Flash game with Flash Game License
Reading the comments in this blog, I saw there is a bit of confusion about MindJolt (MJ from now on) API On the site, there isn’t any guide, and the only way to have some information is by email from Richard Fields. Besides Richard must be a very busy guy with such a game portal, … How to use MindJolt’s API (and why you should do it)
Probably you don’t know, but I won a contest hosted by MochiAds some time ago. I won the referral bonus of the first (as far as I know) MochiAds contest. Having my name next to a Nitrome guy is something weird… a blogger that makes tutorials about Flash games next to one of the biggest … Who refers wins
Multipart tutorial: available parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 For those of you that wonder how it’s going with the experiment (read posts from 1 to 6 to know more about it) here’s a quick update: Circle Chain Days in the wild: 77 MochiAds impressions: 267,872 MochiBot plays: n/a MochiBot top … Experiment: monetizing a Flash game – Part 7
Jay is Games is hosting his 5th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, sponsored by Gimme5games, Mochi Media and Adobe. Gimme5Games may seem the million-th games portal in the net, but it’s owned by Eidos (Tomb Rider guys), while Mochi Media is the company behind MochiAds and MochiBot. Adobe is… well… Adobe. To enter, you have to … Win $3,500 with the Casual Gameplay Design Competition #5
Time to publish the complete tutorial about the making of GuessNext, a simple card game with highscores. In order to make an highscore, you must register to Kongregate but you can play even if you don’t register. It’s not meant to be a good or enjoyable game, it’s simply a programming exercise, so don’t expect … GuessNext: complete Flash game with highscores
