FGS 2011: How I Built A $10,000/month Flash Game In My Spare Time
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The document summarizes how the author made $10,000 per month from a flash game they developed in their spare time. It provides statistics on the game's users and revenue. It then discusses the business model used, including donations, beta access packages, and microtransactions. It achieved success by building a community, constant updates, and social features that allowed players to show off upgrades.
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FGS 2011: How I Built A $10,000/month Flash Game In My Spare Time
- 1. How I made a $10.000 per month flash game in my spare time
- 2. About me
- 3. Flash, Unity3D & .NET
- 13. Stats As of Febuary 25 th , 2011 250 000 Registered users 11.2 Mio individual game sessions 33.5 Mio levels played Av. session time 34.35 min Total income 39 613.39$ Daily Active users ~60 000
- 14. Demographics
- 15. Multiplayer SDK
- 17. 6.218Plays 4.37 Score 15 Reviews
- 18. Oddly addicting I couldn't stop stalking the other circles ...
- 19. Wow the perfect time waster amazing addicting pointless games
- 20. Fun! Well, what can I say? This ought to be front-paged for the real madness to begin, assuming the player limit is going to be raised. But even as it is the game about tiny circles kept me clicking violently late at night. The simplicity and pointlessness of the gameplay attracted me greatly. To defend your creation from the hordes of "assholes" (sorry guys, nuthin personal) is awesome.
- 21. Down Again Damn, the server is WEAK
- 22. Unusual growth
- 24. Will people pay?
- 27. Single fan donating 100$
- 29. BigDB
- 31. Donations with reward 112.82$
- 34. The Beta Package
- 38. Payvault…
- 39. Payvault…
- 41. The model Energy + Gems Free Paid
- 42. Packages Worker Christmas Ninja 2$ 5$ 10$
- 43. The Big Spender $50.00 x7
- 45. 1 152.2$
- 46. Christmas 2010
- 47. Christmas 2010
- 49. Recipe for success Build a community Constant development (UPDATES!) Multiplayer Identity and Persistence What sells Showing off Upgrades
- 50. I am not alone Great community Admins Michael, creates graphics, videos etc. David, runs the fan forum / wiki Toby, helps with web development
- 51. Biased?
- 54. Still in beta shellshocklive.com nonoba.com kongregate.com
- 55. Release at Kongregate Kongregate Frontpage Kongregate Featured
- 56. We want to help you get started! [email_address]
- 57. I am not a smart man!
- 59. Questions? chris@player.io - twitter.com/benjaminsen – linkedin.com/chrisbenjaminsen