So, you are new to the flash market and finally finished your game after countless hours of coding, designing, and testing (over and over). Now you that think you are ready to let the whole world see your super crazy awesome game. The only problem is, how do you get your game in front of as many people as possible? Well this is the tough part but a number of steps can help you toward your goal.
Many people think that their game is done, and in the developer's eyes the game is absolutely perfect (or close to it). But ask yourself, if you are relatively new to flash games and don't have the time to read the instructions, or just don't want to like many of us are guilty of, can you easily get into the game and figure it out. Like sometimes when I play a game I just jump right into the game and nothing happens so I start clicking on random keys to see what happens, and if it takes more then a few seconds of clicking then I exit, it's true. So it really helps to start off the game slow and have instructions in game, or have some elements of the game introduced a little at a time.
One of the biggest reason I see a fantastic game fall through the cracks, and I am guilty of this, is lack of testing. You should test, and test, and test, until you don't think you can test anymore, then test again. People really do get mad if they think they have found a sweet game then find out there is a huge bug that totally ruins the game, don't let this happen. It is the NUMBER ONE reason for a good game failing according to me:) no but seriously.. don't let it happen. Have your friends, or even family try it out, you will be surprised what kind of bugs they can find
Alright now your game is somewhat decent, fun, bugless, and ready to go. But where to show it off? Well this is personally my plan of attack, and it seems to work pretty well because most of the games get well above 1 million plays, a couple of mine are at 20 million plays. First, I submit it to Kong, it's a respectable site that will get you some decent comments on what should be improved, just ignore the hateful comments, EVERYONE gets them. It's also a good idea to start out on Kong because you can select the exclusive to Kong check mark and get some extra revenue share. Wait maybe a day or two and read all the comments and perhaps add in some features requested by a lot of people. Little things can make a big difference.
Now it's time to really get it out there, unselect the Kong exclusive thing because we are about to put it on more sites. These are some of the main ones I recommend submitting to in no order:
-Newgrounds
-Nonoba
-Armorgames
-Hiddenninjagames (of course)
-Addictinggames
-Agame
-Oyunlar1
-Mindjolt
-Onemorelevel
-Notdoppler
Those should really get you started, and if you get the frontpage of Newgrounds (Tom, the webmaster chooses these) then you are going to have a lot of other sites put your game on their site, meaning a lot of distribution. If you have a really great game distribution really will come by itself. This is really viral distribution and it's what every developer once. If this happens to you then you are in there.
REMEMBER, the sites I listed are not all of them, they are just a few good ones, if you really want to maximize your plays send an email to every Flash Portal you can and try to get your game on their site. Every little play counts.
Good luck, and I wish you many many plays! Just remember to keep working hard.
My name is Eric Smith and I make and review games for you guys! I own a gaming website where anyone can play my favorite online games and the most popular Ninja Games for free.
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