http://flashgamemaker.com Developing, promoting and making money from Flash games! Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:24:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Well all the work is finally over with, the game is sponsored and it's live out "there". I'm really pleased with the result. What am I talking about? QFP, or "Quest for power" the longest project I've worked on so far. It's got 14 levels each with cool graphics, 7 ... http://flashgamemaker.com/2009/06/11/quest-for-power/ I havn't had a chance to post any of the games I've worked on over the past 6 months here, but seeing this game is doing so well I thought I would give it a quick mention. Click on the image to play it :) http://flashgamemaker.com/2008/11/23/christmas-crunch/ 2 of my games won in 2nd place in 2 different categories! From when Cannon Man was on Gaia I thought maybe I might get 8th/9th/10th position in the audience competition, but in no way did I think it would come 2nd. And that wasn't even the end of it, ... http://flashgamemaker.com/2008/05/09/i-won-2nd-place-in-the-mochiads-competition-x-2/ Please see the "download games" section to be able to download Earth Defense. http://flashgamemaker.com/2008/04/06/earth-defense-added-to-free-games-for-download/