“This is a market of fulfilling instant gratification and capturing the player’s attention as quickly as possible. The player has invested nothing more than bandwidth and a few seconds of their time, so if a game doesn’t captivate them almost instantly they will move on to another game (and there’s a lot of those!) So what makes a game become an Internet classic like Line Rider or disappear forever into obscurity?”

Ira Wiley from onemorelevel.com wrote a great article on flash games that is well worth the read. Based off of his experiences playing and reviewing over 10,000 games, he shares his thoughts on what it takes to make a game really successful.

Read his article to find out more.