Alright, so the development portion of the experiment has just finished yesterday. I have managed to get three games to point of where I want them so those are the three games that will determine how I fair in the contest.

Other Games

As for the other 4-5 games I developed during the contest time frame, they will be finished, but not included in this contest as far as scoring goes. These games include: Avoider, Dodger, Runner, Clicker, and Defense. (Yes, they will all get real names once art has been added to them). It should take 1-2 hours to implement art and polish to each game when I get back around to them. Unfortunately many of the artists I contacted did not respond so I was unable to get everything needed.

Completed Games

Now let’s do a quick breakdown of the three games I manged to complete. I did not record time that it took to implement art so I’ll try to make a reasonable guess for all of the games.

Beyond Escape (Used to be Jumper):

Game Size: Large
Game Type: Distance
Game Length: 30 – 60 minutes
Total Dev Time: 12 hours 30 minutes
Art Costs: $430

Monolith Guardian (Used to be Shooter):

Game Size: Large
Game Type: Shooting
Game Length: 30 – 60 minutes
Total Dev Time: 9 hours 15 minutes
Art Costs: $220

Save the Egg (Used to be Dropblock):

Game Size: Small
Game Type: Avoiding
Game Length: 1 – 2 minutes
Total Dev Time: 2 hours 0 minutes
Art Costs: $70

So that’s $720 in total art costs which starts me off at -$360 for this contest. I have fairly large expectations as far as performance goes for these games. If my guesses are correctly I will have earned that back on ads alone in a matter of days. My competitor managed to complete 6 games during the allotted time, with total art costs of $150 starting him off at -$75 for the contest.

Expectations

I enjoy making guesses about how my games will perform so I’ll list below expectations for the first two months. After two months have passed, I will go back and analyze actual performance to expected performance.

Beyond Escape (First two months):

Expected Plays: 3,000,000
Expected CPMStar Revenue: $3,000
Expected CTR: 20%
Expected NG Score: 4.00
Expected Kong Score: 3.75

Reason: This is a fairly unique game that has a whole atmosphere incorporated to make the game very enjoyable; this is something I haven’t tried doing before. It has stellar graphics along with a large amount of content so I expect it will fair well as far as distribution goes. No matter how this game performs, I’m very proud of how it turned out.

Monolith Guardian (First two months):

Expected Plays: 2,000,000
Expected CPMStar Revenue: $2,000
Expected CTR: 25%
Expected NG Score: 3.80
Expected Kong Score: 3.60

Reason: This game turned out to be a fairly generic space shooter aside from a twists which will hopefully keep it interesting for users. It’s a well built game, but I don’t feel it stands up to the others as far as the wow factor goes. Despite this, I still think it will spread well due to it’s outer appearance.

Save the Egg (First two months):

Expected Plays: 500,000
Expected CPMStar Revenue: $500
Expected CTR: 10%
Expected NG Score: 3.80
Expected Kong Score: 3.40

Reason: This game actually deserves to perform better than I expect it to, out of the three games this is a close second to Beyond Escape in terms of my favorites. The concept for this game is very simple, but I’ve managed to turn it into more of a novelty. I’ll wait until it’s released to tell you more .

Analysis

If all goes according to plan I should $5,500 pocketed from this 7 day frenzy, and a nice 1,150,000 clicks to our website. The long term revenue should be closer $10,000 and 2,000,000 clicks after 6-12 months if expectations hold. Hopefully I’m not being too ambitious with these numbers, but they’ve been estimated based on the success of my previous games.

The clicks to the website should earn approximately the same amount as the ad revenue so that would mean all the revenue statistics posted here should be doubled. I also intend on selling a couple non-exclusive licenses to give all this revenue a nice boost. If my numbers are correct that means I’m worth about $1000/h as far as coding goes!

In my next post I will include the swf files to the game both prior to and following art implementation. Hopefully some of the games will be released as early as tomorrow. The follow-up to this post should be coming in the next few days once I’ve released everything.

Stay Tuned!