Hey, just updating to let everyone know what's been going on, and there really hasn't been much. OTHER THAN:

- I made a new game, Christmas Stacker
- Got a new website back in July, Gamers Earth
- Finished another game, and am looking for a sponsor

First, about the new game. Christmas Stacker was a quick project to see how good I get a game in about week, and how much revenue I'd be able to get from it. Lately, I've noticed that Physics game for a lot of money in the flash game market. So, what I did was think of a popular style of flash physics games, and that style/theme is stacking. Basically, what you do is get a list of shapes, and you try to stack them all and keep them on the screen. So I grabbed Box2D and QuickBox2D and made this game real quick, 9 days, and then got some Mochi Ads and stuck those in there. I then put the game on Kongregate, and Newgrounds. Following that I set like 1,700 emails trying to get it spread around. I also added it to Mindjolt.com on December 23rd, and then the game went live on the 24th! That's the fastest I'm sure anyone has gotten their game on Mindjolt! Did I forget to mention that I did some self-sponsorship with my Gamers Earth website?

Looking at that, you'll notice that I have 2 sources of revenue now. I am getting revenue from Mochi Ads, and I am getting revenue from my site, Gamers Earth. I had some great results from the in-game ads, and the traffic to my site. You'll see the stats and a more in depth post on New Years.

Now, about GamersEarth. Gamers Earth is a website I bought from a guy who lives in New York. He was floating around the MochiMedia forums, and spamming a lot, then he decided that arcades are not his niche. So, he ended up selling the Domain to me for $310. He bought a custom template for it from TheHiveDesigns.com, and the site uses the ArcadeTradeScript Arcade Script. The site has great SEO, and a good amount of games. The Alexa was pretty good as well, too. It was 209,000 or something like that. It's gotten a bit bigger, but that's because I haven't been updating daily, and creating my own descriptions for games that I add to my site.

When I first got the site, I didn't know anything about marketing, and running a business, but I've had about 6 months worth of learning, and now I'm starting to understand how things in this market, and business. And, I partly have Talk Arcades to thank for that. Talk Arcades is a website for arcade owners to talk about business and ask questions and such. From there I've learned a fair amount about arcades. I also understand the phrase, "It takes money to make money."

Through MochiMedia, I signed up for their 'Self-Serve Advertising' deal. What I get to do is make a 300x250 pixel image that people will want to click to go to my website, and set a budget, areas of the world to target, and specific genres of games I want my ad to show up through. And for the most part it was pretty successful, But I'm pretty sure I lost money. Nice enough though, I released Christmas Stacker and it was pretty well taken by other arcade owners and I made more than I spent on advertising. I'll talk about this more in-depth in my New Years Post.

The new game I made is a platformer, and I was just letting you know that I have a new game coming out, so be ready!

-Tom