Flash game Desktop Tower Defence(DTD), now averages millions of visitors a month. The flash game itself is nothing over-the-top fancy, rich visuals, that require intensive hours of hard work to develop or produce. All you need is a good game concept, that’s simple, elegant, and, most importantly, addictive and easy to catch on to. Oh, and even better, make it the most easily accessible as you can.
This single game alone, DTD, brings in, quote “4 figures” a month, for just being a website. The revenue comes from Advertisement campaigns on the site, and being such a popular website that gets 20 million visitors a month, it’s not hard to see where all the Ad money comes from.
This is so motivating for me, personally. I’ve gone through the full process of creating a Flash-based game from scratch already, and it’s playable on this site too. Yea, my creation’s amatuer, and really not that great..just .. a start.
But, i do already posses the skills and fundamental knowledge of Actionscript(Flash) that i will need the next round to create another game. A plus for me.
After reading that article (which, is now 2 years old, so who knows just how much BIGGER the revenue has gotten by now), i am now further motivated to sit my ass down, and polish up my Flash skills and create another game.
There’s thousaaands of flash-based game websites and thousands of other flash games, and not every one is successful overnight. This is just the way of the Gaming field. You try, fail, and improve. Just remember to be humble, and listen to any critiques or feedback you get about your project..it’s the best & fastest way to grow.
sooo freaking outta control. what the heck is this thingy of a thing? o-o
its.. a mouse, costs over 400bucks USD for it…
its called a SpacePilot Pro, and it certainly looks like something created in space for space.
the SpacePilot Pro is designed and aimed at the CAD professionals, 3D modeling and animation artists.
it even features its very own LCD screen, customizable to your very needs.
Check out this custom Unreal tool (or Maya?), that the team working on Project Offset has for building their environments.
Why can’t texturing in Maya (or 3DS Max) be this way ? Paint direct on our models…shadows, cracks, bumps, layered.. gosh..directly onto our model, in real time. Be gone, UVing! ;x
this is another game that examplifies just how much room there is left, to innovate the way we play our games today.
Here’s Fez, a very very simple looking game, that’s not key on “epic visuals” like Gears of War and Crysis, but still, very epic in it’s presentation and design. Fez combines the very classic days of gaming, side-scroll platforming, like Super Mario World, with a modern “3d game” system. At first it might take a while to get a hang of “seeing” into the game world, being such a rare and, new, way of playing a game. But after getting into the mechanics, this game brings out so much creativity in the design, its not easy to mock up a side-scroller that has to work when viewed from a different perspective. Gah i’m terrible at explaining it, but once you seeeee this, you’re gonna be Wowed yourself.
I love games like these, bringing new fresh concepts to our gaming world…a good break from just another ‘blockbuster epic game’…games like World of Goo, PixelJunk Eden, Mirror’s Edge..etc..it’s not always about a super high-res high-quality artful game. Good art/visuals don’t make good games, just the same as being good at a tool does not make you a good artist.
Stumbled upon another article while researching lol…here’s more proof to why the Gaming industry is so captivating and amazing to get into.
For many ‘normal people’, stop bluffing yourself to think of stereotypes the moment you here “Games” or “Gaming”. You’re losing out on one of the strongest Industries in the world, and we’re still growing. For me, and the ones doing business in this industry, it’s all about the revenue & profits, while at the same time enjoying our work in this ‘fun & colorful’ industry. You don’t have to be a “gamer” to work in this industry. There’s so many aspects to this field, that so many of us won’t think of right off the top of our heads. You could be a lawyer and still be heavily involved in this industry, or a Marketing/PR manager, or even a musician.
Reportedly, Nexon America rakes in $1.6 million a month on microtransactions. Its game cards in Target Corp. stores are said to be behind only Apple Inc.’s iTunes cards in popularity.
Take note the date of this article, 2008. Global economic crisis? 1million a month?
The article references a few other successful MMO companies, and as usual, uses WoW (World of Warcraft) as one of it’s main references. Yes yes, it’s not easy, to simply start your own MMO, and hope it will achieve this kind of success. It’s a big big big picture to setting up an MMO, not to even talk about running and maintaining it after launching the game. But is it worth that hardship in the early days? heck yes.
Again, not every MMO (there’s over a thousand or moreeee MMOs worldwide, some quiet ones included, just do your research you will be surprised) is going to be making this same amount of giant revenues, some even completely shutdown after a short period of time. But it does not mean ‘dont try’…if there’s a will, there is a way.
Wow, it did finally come to market.. back several years ago this keyboard was just a fancy dream, too cool to be true.
but look now, it’s available for purchase, at a very fancy price of $1500+USD for a keyboard.
sure it’s cool and there is no other keyboard around like the Optimus Maximus, designed by Art Lebedev. Each individual key on this keyboard, is a mini OLED screen, capable of displaying colorful images, animated or not, and even quicktime videos. And as you can guess, each individual screen can be mapped(programmed) to any given function you desire..need a clock to check the time as you work or play games? or check the weather outside before you leave your room..or see what song iTunes is playing..
This product brings a whole new meaning to HotKey
this is a dream keyboard for all kinds of geeks..i want one too.
Check this awesome video out showing off this dream keyboard:
Optimus Maximus way too maximus for you? then maybe this Laser Bluetooth Keyboard might tickle your fancy, and also for a cheaper buck, but still gives you that Wow factor.
Yep, this is just like those keyboards we have seen in the sci-fi/futuristic movies..a ‘virtual’ keyboard where all you need for it is a flat, empty space. Funky.
this shows how much closer our technology has become to that of those movie producers dream of..someday, our screens will be ‘screenless’, and everything will be at the touch of our fingertips, literally..just like this Laser Keyboard.
Yes that time is drawing near. For those unaware yet, television is about to change.
Prepare to embrace the digital age. By Febuary 17 2009, all television broadcasts will be digital. There wont be any more analog signals. So the minority left using those antennas to recieve their current over-the-air television will have no other choice but to upgrade to a digital solution.
I feel this is a significant move, especially for such a huge country…feels the same as when black-and-white changed to full-color broadcasts back years and years ago.
:O Today was Voting day. New President for the Country :O
i’m not really big on politics, so i have little to none to say on this..my head’s wrapped around getting through my classes this semester. i heard from some friends their schools had ‘students-vote-simulation’ where their schools had their own voting sessions..that’s really interesting to me.
