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Flash Game Friday Winner: 99 Bricks (Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:36:25 +0000)
If you don’t pay close attention, this week’s FGF winner may trick you into thinking you’re playing Tetris. But with its impressive physics, 99 Bricks is a lot more like Jinga than the classic puzzle game.
Flash Game Friday winner: 99 Bricks
Play it — and then don’t forget to congratulate new MochiAds member WeirdBeard on the related forum thread.
Happy Friday everyone!
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Flash Game Monetization Case Study: Emanuele Feronato (Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:29:36 +0000)
What’s the best recipe for monetizing your game? Flash game blogger and self-proclaimed geek Emanuele Feronato (aka MochiAds member Triqui) weighs in with the results of his experiment.
On October 28th, 2007, I started a an experiment where I released a one-day game called Circle Chain to see if I could earn some bucks with a Flash game. Since that day, I published a total of 10 games and I am currently developing some more.
A year later, this is what I made:
- MochiAds: $4,628.18
- Third-party sponsorship: $4,000.00
- API integration: $250.00
- Donations: $124.00
- Google Adsense: $390.77
- Revenue Sharing: $20.80
- Grand total: $9,413.75
In my opinion, MochiAds is the most interesting way to monetize a game, due to the fact that it’s relatively easy to implement and it’s a constant, easy revenue stream. In other words, whereas I need to find a sponsor in order to secure sponsorship money for any game I make, I’m still earning money from my very first game through in-game ads.
Want to try it yourself?
Here’s my step-by-step recommendation:
1) Sign up for MochiAds.
2) Sign up for MochiBot, a free service that helps you monitor the popularity of your games.
3) Sign up for Flash Game License, where you can get your game sponsored.
4) Think up a game design concept. The more original, the better. If you have no ideas, you can visit Three Hundred Mechanics for some inspiration.
5) Make your game.
6) Once you think it’s finished, encrypt it. You can use the MochiAds free version control and encryption service.
7) Add your game to MochiAds, and add MochiBot to your game.
8) Submit your game to a developer forum or take a look at First Impression service by Flash Game License to get some quality reviews of your game. Remember to site-lock your game if you want to prevent it from being spread before you’re ready. If you don’t know how to site-lock a game, read How to sitelock a Flash movie.
9) Submit your game to Flash Game License.
10) Wait at least two weeks.
11) If you found a sponsor, distribute the game according to the partnership you signed. If you did not find a sponsor, return to step 10 or proceed to step 12.
12) Submit your game to as many portals as you can.
12) Return to step 4.
Good luck!
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Flash Game Friday Winner: Blockular (Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:03:04 +0000)
This week’s FGF winner is an addictive puzzle game with some unique game mechanics: Blockular!
Flash Game Friday winner: Blockular
Be sure to congratulate MochiAds community member Megazorb on the forum thread.
Happy Friday, everyone!
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Announcing Community-Organized Mochi Meetup in London! (Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:14:33 +0000)
Join your fellow MochiAds community members in this first-ever Mochi Meetup in London, UK!
If you’re in the London area on November 15th, be sure to check out this event organized by your Flash developer peers Ernesto Quezada (Games Garden) and Undersiege (USS Games, aka Carl Trelfa).
Date & Time: 5pm on November 15th, 2008
Location: Penderel’s Oak, 283-288 High Holborn, Holborn, London, WC1V 7HP
Event Description
From MochiAds community member and meetup organizer undersiege:
Whether you’re a game developer or publisher, please join us at tea time to talk about Flash games, portals, and anything else that comes to mind. The meetup location is a pub, so you do need to be at least 18 years old to attend.
Check out the related forum thread to RSVP and see who else is going. There will be some Mochi Media shwag for everyone who participates! All are welcome; feel free to bring your friends.
If you’d like to attend, please private message either Ernesto or Carl for additional contact details.
Got an idea for the meetup? Feel free to pitch it on the related forum thread.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Flash Game Friday Winner: GraveShift! (Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:59:31 +0000)
Happy Halloween! Today’s Flash Game Friday winner is a spooky fun adventure: GraveShift!
MochiAds Flash Game Friday Winner: GraveShift
Be sure to congratulate MochiAds community member
TangerinePOP on the
forum thread.
Have a great holiday weekend!
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Halloween Flash Games! (Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:26:21 +0000)
Wow. The MochiAds community really knows how to rock Halloween! Fill up your plastic pumpkin with these tricks and treats, including puzzle, avoider, shooter and music games — and more:
MochiAds Halloween Flash Games: Bad Moon Rising
Visit the related forum thread to check out more games and add your own!
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Casual Connect and FlashGAMM Kyiv (Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:28:11 +0000)
This past week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at both Casual Connect Kyiv and FlashGAMM in Kyiv. It was great to meet everyone there!
Casual Connect had a packed schedule of presentations throughout the day. I also had a great time at Flashgamm, which brought together 150 Flash game developers for a two-day conference the weekend following. They pulled together an excellent event with tons of great presentations for the group live and also broadcasted online. You can check out the Flashgamm sessions (for those of you who can’t read Russian like me, here’s a link through Google translator to give you an idea).
For those of you who couldn’t make it, here a few photos below! You can also find many more photos of FlashGAMM here (1, 2).
Presentations at Casual Connect
George Bain’s presentation on Developing the Playstation Network
Left to Right: Badim, Barry White, Simon Jones, Ada Chen
Over 100 Flash game developers present at Flashgamm
Badim speaking at FlashGamm
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Flash Game Friday Winner: Towering Forever (Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:30:19 +0000)
This week’s FGF winner is a side-scrolling tower defense game in which you need to control a robot invasion: Towering Forever!
FGF winner Towering Forever
Don’t forget to congratulate MochiAds community member madpixelante on his win in the forum thread.
Happy Friday, guys!
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Learn How to Make Games With MochiAds’ New Flash Game Resource Center! (Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:11:30 +0000)
We’ve heard your feedback, and we’re excited to reveal a sparkling-new resourceful area on our site for both budding and experienced Flash game developers! Now when visit the MochiAds forums, you’ll notice a new tab called “Resource Center.” Click it. I promise it won’t bite.
The new MochiAds Flash Game Resource Center is your one-stop shop for sourcing answers to questions ranging from how to create a Flash game to where to get free sound and art to how to market your game to publishers — and everything in between.
What are you waiting for? Start playing around in these sandboxes:
Contribute to the Resource Center
See something that should be there but isn’t? Send it to feedback (at) mochiads (dot) com. We will be updating and expanding this area over time. Think of it as your new Flash game development hub; check it often and send us your feedback so we can all make it the biggest, baddest resource center on the web.
P.S. You’ll also notice another new tab in the forum: “Blog.” Yep, that’s right. Now when you’re in the forum, you’re just one click away from MochiLand — all in the name of conserving your precious typing energy for game creation, of course. Yeah, we try.
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US Presidential Election Games (Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:16:38 +0000)
This year’s US presidential election has inspired some intense Flash games. No matter what side of the political fence you’re on, play out your pre-November anxieties in these:
P.S. If you’re a US citizen over the age of 18, don’t forget to vote on November 4th!
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