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Same with me, Flash games were an amazing side business for a college kid. I made over a dozen games and paid for college completely :)

zerr 6y ago
How were you monetizing it?
- gregsadetsky 6y ago
  Not GP, but there was a huge economy around banner / ads being embedded in Flash games, and those games being shared widely / distributed on many different sites. There were many "portal" sites that showed (hosted) many games and showed ads alongside or before the games started, and then a second sub-ecosystem of ads embedded in the games themselves by the game developers. Instead of feeling like their games were "pirated" when somebody copied the game's .swf file, developers had this (viral) mechanism which made those games lucrative wherever they'd appear on the web! Source: know someone who ran one of those "portal" sites and made an absolute killing.
  - nwienert 6y ago
    I had a portal like that as a teen (GameGum.com) before they blew up (once people started selling the “one click all in one arcade scripts” it was all over, even though ours was far nicer and had a nice community). Made good money for a few years and bought my first car off it!
- babaganoosh89 6y ago
  Ads through a network like CPMStar were the majority, averaged about $0.50 per thousand views. At the time there was also a flash game marketplace at fgl.com, that let game portals like Addicting Games or Newgrounds bid to "sponsor" your game which involved adding their branding and links to their site. On my most popular game I made $100k over a few years.
  - zerr 6y ago
    There are still lots of such portals with Flash and HTML5 games - so is that economy still thriving well?
- dwild 6y ago
  I did two games for fun when I was younger. I only made 200$ in total, but they were made in less than 4 hours each (I did them both in a math class, thus why the time restriction). To monetize them, I used MochiMedia, which sadly died with Flash, and they were the one that distributed them. I got about half a millions views on both of them, mostly from China (which had an ecpm of 1 cent too :')).

zerr 6y ago

How were you monetizing it?

gregsadetsky 6y ago
Not GP, but there was a huge economy around banner / ads being embedded in Flash games, and those games being shared widely / distributed on many different sites. There were many "portal" sites that showed (hosted) many games and showed ads alongside or before the games started, and then a second sub-ecosystem of ads embedded in the games themselves by the game developers. Instead of feeling like their games were "pirated" when somebody copied the game's .swf file, developers had this (viral) mechanism which made those games lucrative wherever they'd appear on the web! Source: know someone who ran one of those "portal" sites and made an absolute killing.
- nwienert 6y ago
  I had a portal like that as a teen (GameGum.com) before they blew up (once people started selling the “one click all in one arcade scripts” it was all over, even though ours was far nicer and had a nice community). Made good money for a few years and bought my first car off it!
babaganoosh89 6y ago
Ads through a network like CPMStar were the majority, averaged about $0.50 per thousand views. At the time there was also a flash game marketplace at fgl.com, that let game portals like Addicting Games or Newgrounds bid to "sponsor" your game which involved adding their branding and links to their site. On my most popular game I made $100k over a few years.
- zerr 6y ago
  There are still lots of such portals with Flash and HTML5 games - so is that economy still thriving well?
dwild 6y ago
I did two games for fun when I was younger. I only made 200$ in total, but they were made in less than 4 hours each (I did them both in a math class, thus why the time restriction). To monetize them, I used MochiMedia, which sadly died with Flash, and they were the one that distributed them. I got about half a millions views on both of them, mostly from China (which had an ecpm of 1 cent too :')).