sexta-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2009

Where is the money?

Well I did publish 3 games, four if you count the planets version of star survival and made 10 usd on mochi so far.

As you can see it hardly pays the work I had when making the games, still it was a very fun experience.

If you want to check out my other games you can visit my profile at https://www.mochiads.com/community/profile/linkage001

I’m currently thinking about making a fourth game, but since this time it is going to be for fun only don’t expect fancy graphics or music.

Hope to post again soon

Linkage001

quinta-feira, 12 de fevereiro de 2009

Planets again...

Released planets without the bug yesterday, still I got a worst review than NOVA (3.2 vs 3.5), TrentHAX said that the game was lagging on his computer, so I will assume it also did on most of the computers.

I’m working on a 640x400 version of the game now and will release it on other websites besides newgrounds later.

Overall view of the experiment until now, there is no way mochi can pay the time I’ve spent on this game, and GJ doesn’t work, already screwed my chances of getting a decent exclusive sponsorship by releasing the game, but I plan to go through with this until the end.

Maybe the adsense is going to make this worthwhile lol..

terça-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2009

Planets falure

Well, I did release it with game jacket, witch gave me a gray screen of death….

I will fix that bug (trade to mochi ads) and change the title, since the game got a review saying that I was ripping my own game of (lol).

For most people the game did run well, but since I got the gray screen two times I asked for a blam on newgrounds, but was too late =p

Lesson learnt: Mochi is better! Game Jacket ruins the game.

I’m also making a Mario “escape” puzzle, using the river cross rules, I’m sure I saw that puzzle before, but since a Japanese flash game made me remember it I must give it credit.
Here is a link to the Japanese version:
http://freeweb.siol.net/danej/riverIQGame.swf

Hope my version is ready soon, and that the next release of planets goes better.

Planets Dowoad

The game resolution is 800x500

You can download this game on:

SWF

http://games.mochiads.com/c/g/planets_v4/PlanetsGJ00.swf

Thumb

https://sandbox.mochiads.com/c/g/planets_v4/_thumb_100x100.jpg

To add this to a webpage or blog enter the folowing html code:

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash"src="http://www.gamejacket.com/developers/GJA/GJ01842.swf"
pluginspage=" http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" height="500" width="800"></embed>

sexta-feira, 6 de fevereiro de 2009

Planets!

This is the final version of star survival.
Enjoy!

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domingo, 25 de janeiro de 2009

Monetizing Flash Games

This blog is part a re-run of the classic experiment, “Monetizing Flash Games”, from Emanuele Feronato.

On the paragraphs below I will include some information about my programming past so you can have an idea about who is running this experiment.

//ABOUT THE EXPERIMENT

This blog is coming quite late in the experiment equation, that was because I didn’t knew google offered a free blog hosting service.

Here is what happened so far:

I’ve read a lot about as3 and compiled a game, Star Survival, added mochi ads, published on new grounds. It got a 2.6 score, so I reviewed my concept and released it again, this time it got 3.5. According to Emanuele’s blog, that score should be enough to make some money out of the game.

Since a lot of the stuff I read said that sponsoring pays more than Mochi, the game is currently available at FlashGameLicence.com. I did improve the gameplay a lot hoping it would get a nice sponsorship, as soon I have any update I will post again.

Now the part every one was waiting for:

//TOTAL MONEY MADE

AdSense (from this page): $ 0,00.

MochiAds:

• Impressions:15,291
• Earnings:$2.83
• eCPM: $0.18
Game Jacket:

• Total Game Impressions 98
• Total Advert Impressions 80
• Total Revenue US$0.04
• eCPM: $0,50

Next time I will add mochi later and start distributing with Game Jacket, their eCPM is way better.

Look forward to my next update, maybe I will get to 3 USDs ^^

Star Survival Nova!!

This is the game that got 3.5 on newgrounds

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/478718