Comments on: Where's the Money In Casual Web Game Development?

By: terry mejia

terry mejia — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:49:56 +0000

The growth of casual games comes as no surprise in an environment where the Cheezburger network has become a million dollar empire. Lots of people have a little bit of time to kill, and this is how they now do it. It makes sense that game development companies got on board.

By: Top 60 Jobs That Will Rock the Future | eLearning 3.0

Top 60 Jobs That Will Rock the Future | eLearning 3.0 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:50:53 +0000

[...] appreciate those mini-distractions throughout the day. Advertisers have taken notice as well – high click rates for game-associated ads have made casual web-based gaming a rewarding pursuit for developers on [...]

By: Top 60 Jobs That Will Rock the Future « Ty Martinez

Top 60 Jobs That Will Rock the Future « Ty Martinez — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:36:25 +0000

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By: Made in the UK » Flash Game Engine - PushButton now in beta

Made in the UK » Flash Game Engine - PushButton now in beta — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:58:40 +0000

[...] to leverage and empower a growing community of Flash developers and other startups interested in making a living from casual games. For consumers, that should also translate into better games coming to their browsers [...]

By: Open-source Flash Game Engine Now In Open Beta

Open-source Flash Game Engine Now In Open Beta — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:02:01 +0000

By: 10 Potentially Game-Changing Games for 2009 PS3 « Seek First

10 Potentially Game-Changing Games for 2009 PS3 « Seek First — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:30:16 +0000

[...] the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business;” and K. Thor Jensen and Frank Washburn, both game developers and occasional GigaOM contributors. The [...]

By: 10 Potentially Game-Changing Games for 2009

10 Potentially Game-Changing Games for 2009 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:00:33 +0000

[...] the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business;” and K. Thor Jensen and Frank Washburn, both game developers and occasional GigaOM contributors. The [...]

By: $100,000 Flash Game Experiment: part 1 | Accumulate Profit Margin Invest Destroy

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:00:17 +0000

[...] companies with a lot of money invested in them. Portals make their money from advertisement deals. According to Ada Chen, product marketing manager of Mochi Media, In-game ads have a click rate of up to 5 percent, while [...]

By: Techlife » XGen Studios vs. The Casual Collective

Techlife » XGen Studios vs. The Casual Collective — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:38:42 +0000

[...] companies are in business to make money with a combination of advertising supported games and upgrades. The ads in XGen’s case are well integrated and hopefully [...]

By: Featured on GigaOm! « Plura Processing

Featured on GigaOm! « Plura Processing — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:48:52 +0000

[...] contributors, for the past week or so about Plura after contacting the site in response to another article on monetizing casual web [...]

By: More Money For Game Devs With Grid Computing? - GigaOM

More Money For Game Devs With Grid Computing? - GigaOM — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:45 +0000

[...] James Au, Monday, October 27, 2008 at 5:00 PM PT Comments (0) Web game developers can make decent money through advertising, but that revenue generally depends on clickthroughs and other variables beyond their control. What [...]

By: Strip News | ArtPatient.com

Strip News | ArtPatient.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:05:35 +0000

[...] very difficult to make money doing webcomics, I still think there are other possibilities to try. Comics and video games go hand in hand, so if it works for one it might work for the other. They make these video games with sponsored ads [...]

By: Dougist

Dougist — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:26:53 +0000

I lost a weekend to Desk Top Tower Defense and wrote about it here…

Desktop Tower Defense

But I don’t think that DTTD made a dime from my 100% attention.

Doug
  http://www.dougist.com

By: Yashraj Vakil » Blog Archive » Earning money with casual web games

Yashraj Vakil » Blog Archive » Earning money with casual web games — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:48:45 +0000

[...] a couple of days back I read this story on Gigaom: http://gigaom.com/2008/10/18/wheres-the-money-in-casual-web-game-development/. It speaks about how flash games have matured into money making tools thanks to guys like Mochi [...]

By: Yashraj Vakil

Yashraj Vakil — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:30:06 +0000

Read the full comment on http://www.yashrajvakil.com
While I don’t quite wish to get into an argument on what’s good and bad about the story, I do have a point of view, which I want to share here, on making money with Flash games using advertising tools. I also don’t want get into a debate on what constitutes a good game and a bad one. This really is about how to get the maximum out of what you are doing and making a living with it. I firmly believe not every game can be a Desktop Tower Defense or a Fancy Pants Adventure. If you are into the business of making Flash games and intend to make money using any of the above mentioned advertising tools you need to think smart and not go after that one killer game expecting to rake in the moolah. Making tons of money with Flash games running ads neither happens with everyone nor does it happen with every game, which drastically reduces the chances of you creating something that get you US $20,000 a month every month for a minimum of 6 months. Don’t get fooled into all the big numbers that you hear. I have seen game developers get as low as US $4 for an entire month in the second month of release in spite of the game being spread pretty much all over the Web. Be smart, recover as much as you can without investing too much time in the same game…