June 26th, 2008
by Ada Chen
Recently I was playing Pencilkid’s game Bowja the Ninja and came across a fun, non-intrusive marketing tactic for Flash game developers or publishers to get traffic back to their site. (It worked on me at least!) For those of you who aren’t familiar with this game, I’ve embedded the game for you to play [...]
June 18th, 2008
by Maya Baratz
What’s the most lucrative path to monetizing your games? Should you sell them exclusively, issue licenses, and/or include in-game advertising? MochiAds caught up with one of your fellow Flash game developers to find out.
Vadim Starygin, also known as MochiAds member Badim, is a trained Russian Naval Officer with a penchant for creating Flash [...]
May 30th, 2008
by Maya Baratz
It’s that time of week again! This week, we’re all over the cardboard-box action with Autobox:
Be sure to stop by and congratulate Mochi member LawlolawlStudios for his win. Who knows? Maybe he’ll have some advice to share on making awesome games.
Is your game FGF-worthy? Be sure to add it to MochiAds and share [...]
May 8th, 2008
by Ada Chen
The results are in for the ‘Become a Rock Star’ Flash Games Contest sponsored by Gaia Online, and we are excited to announce the winners of over $25,000 in prizes. There were tons of excellent entries, and I really must say — we are impressed, and humbled, by the creativity energy and talent of [...]
February 11th, 2008
by Will Hankinson
This week on MochiLand Will Hankinson, aka simianlogic and the creator of the game Filler, shares the story of the game and how much money he made from it. It’s a fascinating read, and we’re all thrilled for his success! Read on below…
First Receptions
The flash games business, like the rest of [...]
January 28th, 2008
by Ada Chen
Congratulations to David Scott who recently unleashed Flash Element TD 2 (FETD2) onto the world. Doubtless, Paul & David at Novel Concepts are fueling hours of distraction for millions of people. They are the creators of Desktop Tower Defense and the original Flash Element TD, and were also judges for our November MochiAds contest. [...]
December 12th, 2007
by Ada Chen
The first ever MochiAds Flash Game Contest has come to a close, and I speak for all of us in praising the creativity and quality of the entries which were included in the contest. We’re pleased to celebrate your talent and share these delightful games with the world.
Thank you to all the developers [...]
November 14th, 2007
by Ada Chen
One Week Left!! The MochiAds Flash Games Contest is still on full-force, and you guys are rocking out. We are seeing some incredible games in the mix and I’m very certain our judges will have a seriously rough time deciding.
Here is a feature of five games (in no particular order) from the contest for [...]
October 22nd, 2007
by Ada Chen
Today we’d like to showcase some of the games that have been recently posted by members of our forums. It’s always fun for us to see the many creative games out there, and we hope you enjoy them too. Here are five for you to check out!
Game #1: Cubex by RobotJAM is a [...]
June 8th, 2007
by Jameson Hsu
David Scott of Novel Concepts and the creator of Flash Element TD just posted a great blog entry about how his game is about to reach 40 million game plays. That’s a very impressive number by any game standard!We hope to read of more great success stories like that from our developer community. [...]