FGS 2011: How I Built A $10,000/month Flash Game In My Spare Time

How I made a $10.000 per month flash game in my spare time

About me

Flash, Unity3D & .NET

Player.IO Goal

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

Demographics

Multiplayer SDK

6.218Plays 4.37 Score 15 Reviews

Oddly addicting I couldn't stop stalking the other circles ...

Wow the perfect time waster amazing addicting pointless games

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.

Down Again Damn, the server is WEAK

Unusual growth

Will people pay?

Simple Donations 48.30$

Single fan donating 100$

Donations with reward

The Smiley Package

Donations with reward 112.82$

Simple Beta Program

The Beta Package

Micro Transactions

Payvault…

Payvault integration

The model Energy + Gems Free Paid

Packages Worker Christmas Ninja 2$ 5$ 10$

The Big Spender $50.00 x7

1 152.2$

Christmas 2010

Payment providers

Recipe for success
Build a community
Constant development (UPDATES!)
Multiplayer
Identity and Persistence
What sells
Showing off
Upgrades

I am not alone
Great community
Admins
Michael, creates graphics, videos etc.
David, runs the fan forum / wiki
Toby, helps with web development

Biased?

Still in beta
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We want to help you get started! [email_address]

I am not a smart man!

Questions? chris@player.io - twitter.com/benjaminsen – linkedin.com/chrisbenjaminsen

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FGS 2011: How I Built A $10,000/month Flash Game In My Spare Time

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