http://flashgamemaker.com Developing, promoting and making money from Flash games! Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:22:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just throught I'd give a little shout out to my most succesful game to date Christmas Crunch  Almost a 120 milion plays! http://flashgamemaker.com/2010/06/11/almost-120-million-plays-for-christmas-crunch/ There's no need for me to fill in any backstory here, everyone knows what's going on. This blog entry is about the comments I've read elsewhere that Flash needs to go quietly into the night, that it should just dissapear and then there will be world peace and everyones computer ... http://flashgamemaker.com/2010/04/13/adobe-vs-apple-and-all-that-nonsense/ I had to post this, being a child of the original computer gaming boom this video hits all the right points for me. PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. Uploaded by onemoreprod. - Explore more music videos. http://flashgamemaker.com/2010/04/08/what-a-load-of-pixels/ Been some big announcements in the Flash game world in the past 7 days, and try as I may I can't find anyone talking about it in the blogosphere so I'll throw my 2 pennies in. I think it was about 7 days ago that I first noticed something on the ... http://flashgamemaker.com/2010/03/14/mochi-social-api-and-the-fund/ I have to admit, I'm not much of a blogger. I wish I was. I wish I was one of those that that would routinely jump onto wordpress to distribute my thoughts across the net, but I'm not. I constantly have "better things to do". For all those out there ... http://flashgamemaker.com/2010/01/12/that-was-the-year-that-was-2009/ I've started to get my head into facebook development and over the past few weeks have accumulated a tonne of useful URL's, so I thought maybe they might be useful for other aspiring facebook developers! Most of these are relevent to Flash/Facebook development in some fashion. I'll be adding to ... http://flashgamemaker.com/2009/12/03/facebook-development-resources/ An interesting new type of games portal launched today, www.biggerplay.com . It has a nice selection of games, but the thing that makes it stand out is it gives players who register on the site the chance of winning some money just by being on the site. They have this ... http://flashgamemaker.com/2009/09/18/biggerplaycom-new-take-on-a-games-portal/ ok, well maybe not "on", but there definately seems to be a lot of missunderstanding and irritation between the 2 groups recently (mostly due to micro-transactions). Something occured to me the other day while thinking about this, and I think the issues between most devs and publishers is this. Most game devs ... http://flashgamemaker.com/2009/08/13/game-devs-vs-game-publishers-its-on/ Just a quick post about mochi coins and some links for further info. Like a lot of dev's I've been aware of micro-transactions in Flash games for the past year, but havn't really had the time to get into it. That's now all going to change with the launch of ... http://flashgamemaker.com/2009/07/21/mochi-coins-could-this-take-us-over-the-top/ Someone asked me the other day, how do I make money doing what I do? and I had to explain in the most basic way possible how I do that, and it got me to thinking that there must be a lot of folks out there who might be interested ... http://flashgamemaker.com/2009/06/19/beginers-guide-to-making-money-with-flash-games/