{"id":699,"date":"2008-11-27T03:10:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T19:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2008-11-27T03:10:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T19:10:03","slug":"online-profits-for-game-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/online-profits-for-game-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Profits For Game Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"
While some marketers are turning to games like Gears of War 2, the new expansion to the World of Warcraft mmpog or Red Alert 3 as a diversion from working on their marketing campaigns all day, it might be a little too easy to overlook the immense profits present within the niche.<\/p>\n
A recent CNN report<\/a> profiled Steve Demeter, creator of Trism, a game for the Apple iPhone. Priced at about $5 per download, the game which is similar to bejewelled, has generated $250,000 in profits in its first 2 months, giving aspiring game developers an easy distribution channel through the iPhone and the app store.<\/p>\n Likewise, TechCrunch<\/a> recently reported that PlaySpan<\/a> which deals with virtual currency for online games has raised $16.8 million in series B funding. The company said to be founded by a 5th grader is focused on providing virtual goods for online games like Eve Online, EverQuest and EA games.<\/p>\n With these news items making headlines regularly, it shows that the profits within the game industry are open to all, even if you’re a 1 or 2-man startup, planning to compete with or cooperate with the big games companies.<\/p>\n In particular, integrating advertising and affiliate offers with a game, can provide an opportunity for internet marketers to move into the entertainment space easily.<\/p>\n A couple of pointers should you decide to go into the game development arena:<\/p>\n While some marketers are turning to games like Gears of War 2, the new expansion to the World of Warcraft mmpog or Red Alert 3 as a diversion from working on their marketing campaigns all day, it might be a little too easy to overlook the immense profits present within the niche. A recent CNN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1504,1817,1503,1506,1505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n