We all saw it or done it before. Playing a flash game on the internet. But what is actually so special about this and why are people making these games. The answer is simple. Money! There is allot of money involved in flash games. When I did my research I was ectualy surprised about this. There are sites out there that are making millions a year of these games.
We all know the game industry and is growing and making more money every day. But if we all read these articles about the game industry we always think about the big guys out there, like Microsoft, activision, ea games. They are all making games for the pc and consoles. The flash gaming community is more controlled by developers who do not work for a big company but rather for themselves or a small company or are just doing this for a hobby.
Trough the help of site like mochiads.com or flashgamelicense.com a developer can make money out of the flash games they developed. They can put some ads in their game or just sell them. There are even some developers out there that can make a living out of this. I think this is great. The flash gaming market is not controlled by the big companies and I really hope they never will get involved. Because this would destroy the community as it is today.
Even as a publisher of flash games you can make some money. If you host the games that are published on mochiads.com you even get paid a little bit. I sumpled upon a blog from one person who is actually trying to make it as a publisher and a developer to make a 100 dollar a day though developing flash games and running a couple of flash gaming sites. You can follow him Here
He is trying to make his websites Tincube.com - Free online Games and yourpuzzlebreak.com - Free Puzzle Games into a 100 dollar a day sites. He even put some rules up for himself. Like he is allowed to invest in one site but not in the other site and he has to do this within 2 years. If you read his story then I really think he can pull this off. Well at least if the flash community is not changing because there are more and more flash sites popping up every day. And I think it is really hard to keep visitors coming back to sites like this. But I know I will follow him closely.
