[casual_games] Game portal script

[Adam Martin]

Out of interest, do you think apple's app store pricing -developer  
gets 70%- is going to exert any pressure on casual games sites to  
change their rates?

(im not picking on Colin, but isn't the apple rate substantially above  
what most casual portals do today?)

On 10 Dec 2008, at 22:20, "Colin Cardwell" <colin at 3rdsense.com> wrote:


> Hi Paul

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> If your games are built in Flash, another option you might want to  

> consider is distributing the games on Fizzy.com. We share ad revenue  

> and I would be that with the rates we get you’ll make almost as much 

>  if not more than doing it yourself.

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> There are three options:

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> 1.       Just upload your game and away you go - you get 30% of ad  

> revenue

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> 2.       Integrate our SDK (takes about 20 mins) to make your game ‘ 

> enhanced’ (brings in in-game advertising, score submissions, etc.) - 

>  you get 50% of ad revenue

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> 3.       Make a download game and sell it on Fizzy - you get 50% of  

> all ad and sales revenue

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> Fizzy is getting plenty of traffic these days too.

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> At very least it’s worth a go with a few of your games.

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> Head on over to www.fizzy.com/developers

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> Let me know if you have any other questions.

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> Cheers

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> Colin

> CEO

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> Have you been to Fizzy today?

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> From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org 

> ] On Behalf Of Paul Steven

> Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 8:01 PM

> To: 'IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List'

> Subject: [casual_games] Game portal script

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> Hi there

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> I would like to create a game portal kind of site and would like  

> advice on whether to create the site from scratch myself or would it  

> make more sense to use an off the shelf solution? If an off the  

> shelf solution is a viable option, can anyone recommend one?

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> I know there are tons of game portals and I am not looking for a  

> quick buck by creating one. I just have created hundreds (yes  

> hundreds) of games over the last 5 or 6 years and thought it would  

> be great to get them all online.

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> Cheers

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> Paul

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> http://www.sloshedsanta.com

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