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Colm Larkin's Blog   Expert Blogs

Colm Larkin is the founder of Gambrinous, an Irish game development company trying to find their way in the Flash games market. As they work on their first game they are sharing their experiences on their game development blog and always welcome a bit of @gambrinous towards their twitter account, so don't be shy.

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You Should Be Making A Premium Flash Game  Featured Blogs
Posted by Colm Larkin on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:38:00 EDT in Production
A breakdown of monetizing flash games via ads vs asking players to buy, backed by examples (with revenue totals) from the industry.
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Colm Larkin's Comments

Comment In: 10 Things Corman Taught Me About Indie Game Development [Blog - 09/29/2011 - 07:02]

Excellent stuff ...

Excellent stuff

Comment In: Lessons Learned While Submitting To IGF [Blog - 11/02/2009 - 06:35]

Nice list, will revisit when ...

Nice list, will revisit when I'm doing playtesting myself :

Comment In: You Should Be Making A Premium Flash Game [Blog - 10/08/2009 - 04:38]

Thanks for the kind words. ...

Thanks for the kind words. Eric: Twin Shot 2 in my examples does just that 50 levels for free and an 'evil themed' 50 level pack for sale. Nitrome said in the linked Q A that they will try a different approach next time however. Ben: A good point about ...

Comment In: Opinion: The Evolution Of Indie [News - 02/17/2009 - 06:00]

so nowadays whats a couple ...

so nowadays whats a couple of ppl making a game Micro-indie

Comment In: Where's The Cash For Flash? [Feature - 02/09/2009 - 04:55]

Nice article- interesting that the ...

Nice article- interesting that the guys making serious money are all using multiple revenue streams. I'd like to see some of these 'casual' flash game brands make the leap to a maple-story-like persistant game. They do pretty well out of microtransactions after all.

   

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