i’m taking Two by Two from the Untold Entertainment library to see how various online monetization methods for Flash games pan out.

Introduction
Part 1: Armor Games
Part 2: Kongregate
Part 3: MochiAds
………./\……….Update: MindJolt
SPECIAL: Earn “Money” Making Flash Games
Part 4: Newgrounds
Part 5: GameJacket

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Other Great Articles About Monetizing Games

Flash:

• Where’s the Cash for Flash? (Gamasutra)
• Flash Love Letter (2009) Part 1 (LostGarden)
• Ten Ways to Monetize Your Flash Game (Evolution Live!)
• How much money I made from Ad revenue writing Flash Games (Forrest’s AS3 / Flash Blog)
• Selling Premium Content: The Drunken Masters Experiment (Dan Holeck)
• The Further Adventures of Kyobi + Updated Sales Figures (Photon Storm)
• Making Money with Flash Game Development (Game Poetry)
• Breaking Down the Bidding Process for Fig 8 (Intuition Games)
• Kaolinfire’s summary of ad earnings on his Flash games

iPhone:

• Just How Much Money can Free iPhone Apps Make? Quite a Bit (Techcrunch)
• 6 Months of iPhone App Sales Stats, Cause and Effect (MarkJNet)
• Flight Control Sales Numbers (Firemint)
• The Numbers Post: Part 2 (Streaming Colour Studios/Dapple)
• One Year in the App Store (Retro Dreamer)
• Making a Living (Barely) on the iPhone App Store (Games from Within)
• Chopper 2 Postmortem (David Frampton)
• How to Price Your Game (Matt Rix)

Android:

• Android Market Payouts Total 2% of App Store’s $1B (Larva Labs)

Xbox Live Indie Games:

• Scribble Defense Sales Data and Thoughts (Elbert Perez)

Other:

• Distribution Channels (The Indie Developer’s Guide)
• Sales Statistics Category (GameProducer.net)
• CasualCharts.com
• Independent Games Sales: Stats 101 (GDC 09 presentation slides)
• 9 Startups to Help You Build Your Virtual Economy (Sachin Rekhi)
• Domain of Heroes – A Microtransaction-Based MMO’s Revenue Stats (Aaron Murray)
• GamerBytes Analysis: XNA Community Games Sales Data Revealed (GameSetWatch)
• 1,000 True Fans (The Technium)
• Is There Money to be Made? (Jeff on Games)
• You Should Be Making a Premium Flash Game (Colm Larkin of Gambrinous)
• The Long Tail: Rock Legend Game Sales Statistics (Cliffski)
• Don’t quit your day job? Here’s why I haven’t… (Dave Toulouse)
• Mac App Store Opening Day Sales Figures from Unity 3D Developers

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