Friday, December 28, 2007

3D Games Market Generators


Every type of online business can attract attention of visitors by using various entertainment content, specially interactive content. Among most productive types of interactive content are video games, Flash games and 3D games.

Good 3D game can have very positive influence on player. They are one of the best known ways for everyday stress relief and excellent tool for us to relax relatively quickly. Also there is a benefit that we gain from interactivity itself and participation of player where attention is awaken and positive insight in particular subject that game represents.

Let's see how this works by taking a look at appropriate example. I'm talking about this video poker website. CGTV Games are developing new 3D games with special usage. See few of them to understand what kind of potential those games have.

In Football ShootOut you get the ability to play as your favorite football team. In Lucky Shot you can take a role as a famous golfer. Penguin Playground combines gorgeous 3D graphics, an engaging serial storyline, five exciting bonus games and a cast of adorable penguin characters. If you don't think this is enough, try Arctic Adventure.



On the other hand if you are hard-core racer, try Sidecar Rally, motorcycle racing action. And if you think green, you are eco friendly spirit and those engines are just not your thing, than right choice for you would be Gold Cup Horse Racing, game that brings track to your computer. Forget about Kentucky Derby, Grand National and Japan Cup, you only need Gold Cup which includes track conditions and even horse characteristics.



Behind all those games is well designed business. Goal is simple, to attract new players and to benefit from them. This strategy is universal and that is what is important here. It isn't really matter what is your product or service. You can find your market or create one.


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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Flanture Birthday Contest


On January 12th 2008 this blog will celebrate it's first birthday. For that occasion I decided to run simple contest with some cool prizes, five of them. Everyone can participate and everyone who qualify have same chances to win.

It doesn't matter what are you blogging about and how successful is your blog, is it popular or not. If you want, you can even start new blog right now and enter contest with it! I will randomly choose winners (well, not me but program) so everyone is invited.

Read about rules and prizes by downloading this pdf: Birthday Contest

Good luck!

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Saturday, December 08, 2007

Should you become a PRO?


Flash games development world is, as I see it chaotic place where everyone is developer and anything is called Flash game. Almost all of us (if not all) encountered situation when you widely open your eyes and you say something like: this is Flash game? Those kinds of semi-creations are reason why in discussions many people claim that Flash is not good tool for game development. But truth behind existence of enormous number of Flash games creators is easiness of making simple animations in Flash.

Every good computer game consists of several important factors like story, graphics, sound, atmosphere and meaningful concept behind all the elements separates great game from average one. But there is much more to do when making professional game in Flash. Excellent coding skills are must. It is far from enough to use small chunks of code collected on web from different sources. Understanding of object oriented programming, data structures and algorithms is just tip of the iceberg of practical knowledge needed. Just think about enemies’ artificial intelligence you will need to code and suddenly everything seems much tougher.

However if all previous is not enough to scare you and you still want to become professional Flash games developer you will probably need few marketing skills as well in order to present yourself and your work in a right way. One of things that can help you is obtaining relevant domain name for your website which will be starting point in your marketing plans. The .pro domain is for professionals, such as lawyers, doctors, accountants, realtors, programmers etc. These are normally $99/year but there is offer for professional domain as a holiday special for 25% off, or $75/year. Consider buying one of these domains if you still dare to become a professional developer.

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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Theme of the Month: HeroInteractive


Among huge number of new flash games development teams, sometimes you find team that can make a difference with wonderfull ideas and most playable games. This time Flanture presents Hero Interactive.



HeroInteractive started making Flash games in August 2006 and for a year and a half few titles emerges:

* Flippy Cup - September 2006
* Captain Coppergravel - October 2006
* Alien Abduction II - March 2007
* Bubble Tanks - March 2007
* LightSprites - May 2007
* StarShine - June 2007
* Triangles - July 2007
* StormWinds - just released

Many games for such short period of time. My favorite games (they are also popular on Kongregate - flash games community) are StarShineand newest one,StormWinds.



There is not much information on Hero Interactive, but they do have blog section on their website, they are from Michigan and only interview with HI you can read HERE .

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Monday, December 03, 2007

Blog traffic report 11 2007


Only five posts in November, but good ones I suppose because traffic has increased once more since last month. For December Flanture will post more about young flash development teams. Some of them have created really interesting games and projects. This will be "Theme of the Month".



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