Comments on: Official Round-Up: Ninja Kiwi’s Flash Game Dev Q&A

By: ninja bike

ninja bike — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:39:27 +0000

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By: bubble shooter

bubble shooter — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:46:58 +0000

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By: Valdamoon

Valdamoon — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:04:23 +0000

Some of this information is good :)

By: XDHDSLASHER12

XDHDSLASHER12 — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:34:07 +0000

I LIKE VIDEO GAMES.

By: Ada Chen

Ada Chen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:02:50 +0000

Rudy, all stats provided are net to the developer.

By: Colm Larkin

Colm Larkin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:05:35 +0000

Nice roundup & thanks to the Harris bros on being open on SAS2 numbers. Here’s my calculations on ARPU and ARPPU based on these stats:
- 6,400,000 total plays
- 17,000 purchases
- “over 20K revenue of which 80-90% is from coins, rest from ads”; so lets just assume $20,000 revenue from those purchases

This would mean the ARPU for those 6.4M plays is $0.003 (0.3c). More useful generally is the ARPPU which would be $1.18. In neither case do we have the actual ‘unique users’ but it should be close enough.

Compare this to someone like 3 Rings and their Puzzle Pirates casual MMO and you’ll see they have an ARPU around $1.50 and ARPPU around $50.

Still I think it’s a pretty good start, good for a freely distributed single flash game (ie not an MMO style product), and Ninja Kiwi have said they are very happy with the results.

Just wanted to point out the revenue levels we should be looking at :)

By: Rudy Sudarto

Rudy Sudarto — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:48:36 +0000

Hi. Nice info
BTW NK guy said around $20k at SAS2 . is it net or gross revenue ?

By: axcho

axcho — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:21:45 +0000

Shufflepuck Cafe! :D Ah, good times… Did you ever play Taskmaker? That was one of my favorites.