Anil Punjabi founded PlayScribe to help distribute the 200,000 existing Flash games to iOS devices' 250 million users, opening a $100 billion market opportunity. PlayScribe's solution involves a network of porting companies, an integration library to simplify porting, viral marketing of games, and revenue sharing. With $350,000 in funding, PlayScribe plans to hire developers, complete an MVP, and build an ecosystem to quickly port Flash games to mobile with high quality, projecting $30 million in revenue by 2015.
2. Founder: Anil Punjabi Past: V.P. Engineering at a Social Startup, Product Management at Amazon & Yahoo Education MBA from Duke University Computer Science Graduate from India Avid Gamer Loves Technology
15. PlayScribe Making Flash Games Work. Everywhere Fundraising: Seeking $350K Use of Funds Hire three full-time game developers Complete building MVP Start building the PlayScribe ecosystem Delivering on our promise
There are some 200K awesome Flash games that users all over the world love to play online on their PCs
250MM iOS devices sold that has Flash disabled. So all those awesome games are blocked out of the Platform.
If we convert 20K (10% of available 200K) games to iOS and assume that 12.5MM (5% of the 250MM) users purchase the games then we are expecting a revenue of 40 cents per game:20,000 * 0.4 * 12,500,000 = 100 billion
Here’s George – he is a passionate flash game developer. He desperately wants to port his games but doesn’t want the headache.
The partner network of porting companies do the porting for you.
Viral Marketing for the games. All Social Sites, YouTube, justin.tv – but also on gaming sites such as GameSpot, etc.
Viral Marketing for the games. All Social Sites, YouTube, justin.tv – but also on gaming sites such as GameSpot, etc.
Here are a few additional games that we are porting to the iPad in the next four weeks