More ramblings about Flash game portals

May 19, 2008 by Emanuele Feronato
Filed Under Monetize •  

Do you remember the post Ramblings about Flash game portals? I was wondering why portals spend thousands dollars sponsoring games.

So I decided to create my own Flash games portal called Triqui (read the post Play Flash games on Triqui.com) and as Triqui I sponsored the game Bees n’ Flowers as you can see on Experiment: monetizing a Flash game - Part 9.

Ok… now that you read all these posts, let’s start telling you what happened last Friday, May 16th

That day was a special one because Bees n’ Flowers was added on the Spill Group network. You should know the Spill Group network because of its most famous portal, Agame, but they have localized portals all over Europe.

In order to have my game listed in their portal I had to remove MochiAds, but it was ok, because I wanted to test how many people clicked on the sponsor banner and the revenue that they would generate from Triqui.

That’s what happened from May 16th to May 18th:

People on the Spill Group network played Bees n’ Flowers times about 125,000 times

According to Google Analytics, about 24,000 of them clicked on the banner, linking to a Triqui landing page, generating about 75,000 page views. Jumping to Adsense, I noticed the page eCPM was about $4 (yes! four bucks!)… and I did not count how many people will come back to Triqui.

So, let’s say that I could have sponsored Bees n’ Flowers for $300 without losing my money.

And I am talking about a game I am not very proud of, where people don’t click too much on “play more games” (you aren’t willing to see more games if the game you are playing sucks), and a portal that is just the millionth portal in the web

So, encouraged for the result of this first experiment, I’ll start adding new features to the portal, such as game ratings and comments. I know at the moment a visitor won’t come back to Triqui, but maybe when I’ll add some features, I can fidelize him.

Last but not least, I am planning to make a contest. It’s not a contest for developers, but a contest for players. I would like to pay something like $100 to the player that will make the top score in a game.

Maybe the idea will spread virally… who knows? With 100k players, I should pay the prize and buy me a Coke.

Would you play to win money? Would you talk about it? Would you buy my underpants?

This, and a lot more, coming soon

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11 Responses to “More ramblings about Flash game portals”

  1. Graham on May 20th, 2008 1:58 am

    Ah…I don’t know. There are a lot of people that know how to hack flash games that aren’t protected and make their own high score. They could win $100 without even trying. You should make sure that the game you are doing this with is secure and safe, so you don’t get scammed.

    But that’s just my personal opinion.

  2. sorby on May 20th, 2008 6:01 am

    When are you going to publish the source code to Triqui.com? So we can all have are own game portal.

  3. Galaxian on May 20th, 2008 6:14 am

    Congrats on the traffic! Big rushes are very exciting, but it’s a bummer when players don’t return.

    I agree with Graham about the high scores. Moreover, someone could use a packet/traffic sniffer to see what info the game is sending and make adjustments.

    LOL, I’ve got my own underpants.

  4. JJ on May 20th, 2008 7:50 am

    What are the most popular flash game portals?
    (for posting games with mochiads) (except Newgrounds)

  5. Badim on May 20th, 2008 10:58 am

    Since none of my emails to Emanuele was answered =(
    Here is some stats from my games:
    http://blog.elite-games.net/blog4.php/2008/05/01/total-revenue-from-last-5-months
    shortcut:
    9272$ with 4 games in 5 months.

  6. Scarybug on May 20th, 2008 5:15 pm

    Hey Emanuel, How do I submit a game to your portal =)

  7. RJ on May 20th, 2008 7:31 pm

    http://www.triqui.com/play.php?id=1745

    Hi Emanuele,

    Could you remove this from Triqui, please? I’m not the developer, but it’s stolen. Yougame is a scammer. It’s the second game I’ve seen him steal.

    Thanks

  8. Emanuele Feronato on May 20th, 2008 7:45 pm

    Badim: sorry, I am about to “release” a quick way to contact me

    Scarybug: it’s automatically submitted when you add your game to Mochiads

    RJ: I can’t remove a game, because when I parse the feed again I would add it again. I’ll add a “disabled” boolean flag in the db to prevent some games to show.
    I’ll do it tomorrow

  9. Scarybug on May 20th, 2008 9:03 pm

    So you don’t have any way of displaying games that use CPMStar ads?

  10. Emanuele Feronato on May 20th, 2008 9:15 pm

    At the moment, I can’t :(

    The portal isn’t ready for user submissions

  11. tarzahn on May 21st, 2008 3:48 pm

    what i dont understand is … i dont see any ads on your triqui page :/ ???

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