MochiAds Payment Threshold Reached

Well, with less than a day left to go this month, I've reached the $100 MochiAds payment threshold. This is for earnings in November and December, and means that I'll receive a payment by the end of January.

Continuing Stats for LBPST on MindJolt

So, for the first day that Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss hasn't been on the front page of MindJolt, impressions have as expected dropped sharply. Total impressions were 27,980 and earnings were $33.68. Still a decent income, but it's probably only going to continue dropping from here.

Front Page Stats for MindJolt

So, the stats for the three days that Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss was on the front page of MindJolt are now in. There were 564,518 gameplays, 312,027 ad impressions and revenue of $426.96. This is more than Picture Find has earned in total during its time on MindJolt.

Now, to see how well it performs in the long run.

First Days MindJolt Stats for Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss

The first days stats for Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss are now in.

There were 237,722 gameplays, but only 119,982 ad impressions which does suggest that initial viewers aren't seeing an ad for the game.

The total earned was $167.60 for this day, and the eCPM was $1.40, which is pretty good.

Now to see how well it did for the other two days it was front paged in the New Games section.

Decorate Your Christmas Tree in Chrome Store

I hadn't originally planned to add it, but since Decorate Your Christmas Tree has done unexpectedly well on Newgrounds, I've added it to the Chrome app store.

Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss Live on MindJolt

I nearly forgot, but Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss was published on MindJolt today.

This is the second game I've had published on MindJolt, but this one uses MJ's new advertising platform. I'll be interested to see how well it performs; the eCPM for Picture Find on MJ using MochiAds has been $1.35 recently, about my highest.

I've heard that the first time a game is played using the new ad system, no ad is shown. This could potentially make a huge difference to the initial earnings for a game.

So far, Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss looks like it could well be doing better than Picture Find did; it already has 22 likes in one day as opposed to Picture Find which has only 10 in the over a year it's been live.

New Flash Game, Christmas Pairs

I've made another pairs game, Christmas Pairs. I hadn't originally planned to do so, because I hadn't though of any ways of improving the pairs engine (I have now, from playing some other pairs based games) so this was basically knocked up quickly using artwork designed for Decorate Your Christmas Tree.

New Flash "Game"

I've made a new "game," Decorate Your Christmas Tree. It's more a dress-up/customise toy than a game; there's no objective, no score and you can't lose. Still, I felt like making a game of this type.

Pyramid Solitaire on Chrome

I've now added Pyramid Solitaire to the Chrome app store too.

BannerFlux Flash Ads

I'm getting more and more irritated with MochiMedia's insistence on using their ads to drive traffic to their MochiGames portal. Unpaid, unwanted sponsorship of a competing portal for anyone using their APIs. The sheer amount of links in a game is costing traffic, and therefore money. So, I've started looking into alternatives. Unfortunately, there aren't many.

CPMStar is considered one of the best ad networks, but before you can use their ads in games you have to be approved as a publisher. Which I've been waiting on for over a year now.

So, I've made a version Castle Match 2.1 which uses BannerFlux ads and GamerSafe leaderboards. I picked GamerSafe because it also has a, very beta, bridge for posting scores to the site the game is hosted on. This version can be downloaded here and I'll probably add more games here, although only ones which use AS3.

Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss on Chrome

I've released Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss as a free app on Google's Chrome web store. I've got no real idea how it will do, and there's a $5 fee to pay before you're allowed to publish apps, but this is a one-time fee and I doubt it can hurt adding extra ways of playing games.

Flash Games Update

Here are the current total earnings from my Flash games to date from all sources.

Castle Match:
MochiAds: $1.80

Castle Match 2:
MochiAds: $1.81

Castle Match 2.1:
MochiAds: $5.32

Constellation Pairs:
Fizzy: $1.44
Kongregate: $0.40
MochiAds: $3.06
TOTAL: $4.90

Constellation Slots:
MochiAds: $2.97
Newgrounds: $0.01
TOTAL: $2.98

Easter Egg Match:
MochiAds: $15.91

Easter Egg Match 2:
Kongregate: $0.15
MochiAds: $9.36
Newgrounds: $0.01
TOTAL: $9.52

Easter Egg Slots:
Kongregate: $0.23
MochiAds: $17.75
TOTAL: $17.98

Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss:
Competitions: $500
Fizzy: $28.90
Kongregate: $1.12
MochiAds: $24.08
Newgrounds: $0.01
TOTAL: $554.11

Mars Slider:
Kongregate: $1.96
MochiAds: $3.96
TOTAL: $5.92

Meteor Storm:
Kongregate: $1.28
MochiAds: $5.36
Sitelocks: $250
TOTAL: $256.64

Monster Traffic:
Kongregate: $1.92
MochiAds: $2.40
TOTAL: $4.32

Obama Uppy:
Kongregate: $1.34
MochiAds: $7.05
Newgrounds: $0.01
TOTAL: $8.40

Picture Find:
Fizzy: $1.95
Kongregate: $0.63
MochiAds: $314.56
MochiAds Chinese: $0.20
TOTAL: $317.34

Pong:
MochiAds: $5.66

Pyramid Solitaire:
Competitions: $500
Fizzy: $24.75
Kongregate: $1.47
MochiAds: $65
MochiAds Chinese: $0.62
MochiAds Publisher: $0.01
TOTAL: $591.85

Quiz Me:
Fizzy: $5.02
Kongregate: $0.77
MochiAds: $12.95
MochiAds Publisher: $0.01
TOTAL: $18.75

Space Match:
MochiAds: $1.21

Space Match 2:
MochiAds: $1.67

Space Match 2.1:
MochiAds: $4.32

Space Slots:
Kongregate: $1.04
MochiAds: $28.64
MochiAds Chinese: $1.81
MochiAds Publisher: $0.07
TOTAL: $31.56

Sphere Avoider 2:
Kongregate: $0.61
MochiAds: $0.99
TOTAL: $1.60

Sphere Avoider Variant 1:
Kongregate: $0.33
MochiAds: $1.34
MochiAds Publisher: $0.01
TOTAL: $1.68

Sphere Avoider Variant 2:
Kongregate: $0.35
MochiAds: $1.55
TOTAL: $1.90

Sphere Avoider Variant 3:
Kongregate: $0.50
MochiAds: $1.80
TOTAL: $2.30

Spooky Pairs:
Fizzy: $3.28
Kongregate: $0.59
MochiAds: $12.33
TOTAL: $16.20

Spooky Pairs 2:
Fizzy: $2.14
Kongregate: $0.20
MochiAds: $10.12
Newgrounds: $0.01
TOTAL: $12.47

Spooky Slots:
Kongregate: $0.82
MochiAds: $28.71
TOTAL: $29.53

The Sky is Falling:
Kongregate: $0.60
MochiAds: $1.78
TOTAL: $2.38

UFO Assault:
Kongregate: $2.05
MochiAds: $2.82
TOTAL: $4.87

Wordsearch: Constellations:
Fizzy: $1.57
Kongregate: $0.33
MochiAds: $4.37
TOTAL: $6.27

The biggest earners are now Pyramid Solitaire and Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss thanks to competition winnings, followed by Picture Find from its MindJolt impressions and then Meteor Storm from the sitelock sold.

Kongregate Earnings for November

The total earnings from Kongregate for November were $0.13, again not very impressive.

Fizzy Earnings for November

The total from earned from Fizzy for November was $16.16, once again the highest amount earned.

MochiAds Earnings for November

The total earned from MochiAds as a developer was $46.82, slightly up from last month, although total impressions were down. Pyramid Solitaire was the highest earner for the month, due to a substantial increase in eCPM. Picture Find was second for once, and Spooky Pairs 2 was third again, still due to Halloween related impressions.

Earnings as a publisher were $0.45, up by slightly more than 50% from the previous month, although total impressions were slightly lower.