Make Money on Flash Games

For a while I have been pondering wether or not I should try to conquer the evergrowing flash-game-market. There are several ways to make money this way, and a lot of the games out there are quite simple. Some of the ways to make money on online games include sponsoring, in-game-ads and micropayments. The first two are probably the most widespread, since it does not need to be an advanved game to gain an income in either of these two categories – only a gameplay which ensures that the game will be played/viewed a lot of times. And with what I have seen, sometimes it is the stupidest games that get the most plays.

For micropayments to work however, I guess one would have to actually create a game which is so enticing that the players will return again and again, and will want to spend money to get an advantage, extra levels, other characters or other things which could be sold seperatly. I have found a list of ten ideas of microtransactions in games. There are some good advice there, I must admit. I will ad one of my own here:

Create a game with a montly highscore list – the winner each month will win the ultimate prize (and if you could get this sponsored from somewhere… Even better). You will then let all players buy all the advantages they want… Beware however, I don’t know if this is legal or not – I suspect that it is not ok in Denmark, where I live.

by Claus Witt

February 22, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Business, Development, Just for fun