Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss on Kongregate

My latest Flash game, Little Bo Peep's Sheep Toss, done for a game competition at MochiAds, has been released on Kongregate. This is a nursery rhyme themed game, where the object is for Little Bo Peep to throw her sheep as far as possible.

Twitter Added to Web Directory

I've added Twitter to my Web Directory. Nothing special, just the RSS feed of latest added sites that's then posted to Twitter by Twitter Feed. Twitter seems to be one of the in things these days, so I thought I'd try using it for something. Now, to look into adding it to the games sites to tweet latest added games.

Kongregate Earnings for December

Kongregate earnings for December were only $0.18, much lower than in previous months. It appears harder for a new game to do well, unless it's so brilliant it does well immediately.

MochiAds Earnings for December

MochiAds earnings for December are now in. Total earned as a developer $51.62, down from last month as Picture Find is no longer on the front page of MindJolt - it only stayed there for a few days anyway. It's still generating revenue though. Pyramid Solitaire was the next biggest earner in terms of both impressions and revenue, although the eCPM was much lower than for Picture Find, so it earned a lot less. Similarly, Easter Egg Match had quite a few impressions, but because of an even worse eCPM was substantially outperformed by games with far fewer impressions.

Publisher earnings were up again slightly (about 10%, but that's only $0.03) at $0.31.

Brief myLot Update

I haven't been active much on myLot recently, so here's a brief earnings update for September, October and November:

September:
My earnings: $0.10
Referral earnings: $1.31
Total: $1.41

October:
My earnings: $0.02
Referral earnings: $1.18
Total: $1.20

November:
My earnings: $0.00
Referral earnings: $0.53
Total: $0.53

MochiAds Payment Received

I've just received my first payment from MochiAds of $200.51. It took approximately 15 months since signing up to reach the $100 payment threshold - or about two days since Picture Find went live on MindJolt. It shows that with a more popular game, you could easily make the payment threshold every month. Now, to try and make some more popular games.

Kongregate November Earnings

Total earnings from Kongregate for November were $0.59, down from last month. No new games had been added, and the revenue from Spooky Pairs and Spooky Slots was lower than expected. Oddly, UFO Assault, which is by no mean a particularly good game, keeps outperforming the other games.

MochiAds November Earnings

MochiAds earnings for November are now in. Total earned was $0.28 as a publisher, up from the previous month, and $165.68, which is something like five times the total for all the previous months combined.

The biggest earner was Picture Find, which made over $140, almost all of that earned from the MindJolt game. Pyramid Solitaire also did well, its earnings for the month putting it in second place for total revenue of all the games.

Massive Links Payment Received

I've received a payment of $57.50 from the Massive Links affiliate program. It's taken slightly more than a year to reach the minimum payment threshold of $50 there. I'm going to consider this program Recommended, although it works best with the right sort of site to promote it on, namely a web directory.

MochiAds Payment Threshold Passed

I've passed the MochiAds $100 payment threshold this week. This is entirely down to one game, Picture Find, being approved on MindJolt, racking up over 200,000 ad impressions in under three days.

If you don't know what MindJolt is, it's a Flash gaming portal. It's popular in Alexa traffic, but not as big as portals such as Kongregate. Where it is big is on the social networks. The MindJolt app on Facebook is currently the 15th largest app there, with over 14.5 million players. They also have a MySpace app. This is a huge number of players who will view your game, and it will usually remain on the front of MindJolt for several days. It will be interesting to see how it does there after it's no longer in the new games section.