[casual_games] Game portal script

[Thomas H. Buscaglia]

XBLA and WiiWare similar pricing didn't...so I doubt that iPone will either.

Tom B

At 03:03 AM 12/11/2008, you wrote:

>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" 

><<mailto:colin at 3rdsense.com>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 <http://www.fizzy.com/developers>www.fizzy.com/developers

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>>Let me know if you have any other questions.

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>>Cheers

>>

>>Colin

>>CEO

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>>

>><http://www.fizzy.com/>Have you been to Fizzy today?

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>>

>>From: 

>><mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org>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>http://www.sloshedsanta.com

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