http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames Knowledge based on experience. e-Commerce tips for game developers. Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:20:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It was announced today. I am quite surprised, but I think it's good for casual game business. Amazon.com is a huge outlet, so hopefully it will boost Reflexive's sales and bring more competition between casual game portals. Here's a few lines from Reflexives press release. At Reflexive we have always prided ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2008/10/21/reflexive-acquired-by-amazoncom/ I haven't post an article in my blog for 55 days. No, it's not because I lost my passion or that I didn't know what to write about. It's because I wanted to try if you can survive in the on-line world going off-line. I went off-line on September 1st. The ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2008/10/20/can-you-survive-in-on-line-world-going-off-line/ Last two months has been really busy and I haven't put much attention to advertising. Actually, I haven't done it at all. Until yesterday. I hate advertising because I always feel like the only one that earns money is the Ad Server.  Even if clicks or impressions are not soo expensive ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2008/08/26/advertising-is-it-a-waste-of-money/ Photo by: Simon Davison Or do you develop games that you want to play? I know a lot of indies takes the latter aproach. I do (or actually did). We hope that games that we want to play and develop are also the games that sell. And once those games are ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2008/08/14/do-you-develop-games-that-sells-or/ Life is strange. When I least expected it, it happend. It did not happen with Tom's Hen House. It did not happen with Runes of Avalon, though I was sooo sure it will make it (and not only I). It didn't happen with Runes of Avalon 2, though I didn't ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2008/07/21/lucky-8-pony-world-deluxe-in-the-iwins-top-10-chart/ From all the portals I know only Big Fish Games adds gameplay videos to every game. Reflexive does it from time to time. There must be a reason most portals don't bother with it. But I am not a portal and I want to check my chances. I want to know ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2008/07/04/can-gameplay-video-increase-your-downloads/ How to shoot yourself in the foot?! No, I'm not talking about us, developers. I'm talking about portals. It looks like we are going to face another war between the key players in the casual game market. And it starts to look like some portals want to become evil. Market review Big ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2008/06/30/portals-at-war-should-we-start-to-worry/ Gaming industry is global. That's why we create games in English. To maximize the chance that the person that plays your game will understand it. But just because people can undrestand what your game is "saying" doesn't mean they wouldn't prefer to play it in their's native language. If you haven't ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2008/06/26/is-it-worth-localizing-casual-games/ I was checking Runes of Avalon 2 performance on Big Fish Games yesterday (well, not good at all) and was very surprised by what I saw in the top-10 list. First of all, I stopped checking the TOP 100 chart becausemy games are no longer there and I don't think it's ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2008/06/20/match-3-still-alive/ Three weeks after the launch I can say a little bit more about Runes of Avalon 2 performance, as well as Stoneloops! of Jurassica performance on the Big Fish Games top 100 chart. Both games for most of the time have been climbing up, but few days ago started to ... http://anawiki.com/sellmoregames/2008/05/10/runes-of-avalon-2-at-bfg-three-weeks-after-release/