I spent the past weekend at Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle. It was a fantastic, packed event and definitely felt more like a gamer convention than a developer convention. The gamer enthusiasm ran the gamut from complex D&D games featuring 20-sided dice, card games like Magic, to XBLA games and hardcore console games. This year, [...]

In consideration of all the feedback which this post has generated, we have decided to remove it from the MochiLand blog. While it’s great to have opinions heard and a perspective from another side of development — at the same time, we don’t want to be in the position of being seen as endorsing game [...]

Last week I spoke at the Casual Connect conference about the emerging monetization opportunities in Flash games. For those of you who remember my talk last year on existing monetization opportunities, this talk is much more focused on the new ones that are just emerging. I’ve embedded the slides below, but wanted to post a [...]

Flash game developers and publishers, We’re excited today to announce the opening of the first ever Flash Games Market Survey! The vision behind the Flash Games Market Survey is to get clear insight into what the market looks like for game developers and publishers alike. This was created by Mochi Media in partnership with Adobe, [...]

Are you planning to be out in Seattle next month for Casual Connect? We are, and we’ve got some exciting events planned! First, if you’d like to set up a meeting with us, drop us a note: team (at) mochiads.com or just swing by our booth! Second, you can also meet Mochi Media by attending [...]

Get out from behind your computers, and join us for some drinks! Enjoy a night of networking and dancing at 111 Minna with San Francisco’s web 2.0 rockstars! Participating companies include StumbleUpon, Facebook, Yelp, Mochi Media, STIRR, JobScore, sfbeta and more. This is a free event and open to the public. Hope to see you [...]

For those of you who are interested in the games and social networks, we wanted to share the news about Social Gaming Summit, a conference focused on games and social web run by our friends at 3rd Power. I’ve attended this event in the past and there is always a phenomenal line-up of speakers, content [...]

Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat! Pew! Pew! This week’s Flash Game Friday winner is Retroshoot! This game pits the player against waves of enemies in a horizontal/vertical (it changes depending on the wave) shooter that reminds of “shmups” of yesteryear! One of the features I liked in the game was the fact that the game did all the shooting [...]

This week, we’re happy to welcome Badim, the creator of the Elite Forces series, for his step-by-step tutorial on distributing and marketing your Flash game. While there are many ways to approach game distribution, Badim provides his step-by-step instructions on how he personally distributes his Flash games, working in collaboration with his sponsor. Read on, [...]

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Flash Gaming Summit, both in person and virtually watching online. We had a packed summit and a lot of intense sessions from topics ranging from monetization to distribution to building successful multi-player games. You can view commentary about the conference at Gamasutra, Gamezebo, Best of Online Games, and [...]