One reason casual game startups are even now confident in these recessionary times is how the prime titles attract thousands of players. Our close friends at casual game ad network Mochi Media have supplied a list of the 10 most favorite casual games hosted on its network, each and every of which can be played thousands of times each and every month on thousands of web sites.
“The most common theme that can be seen inside the [most popular] game titles is always that they are really easy to play and amenable to nearly any demographic,” business founder Jameson Hsu told me by e-mail. “Most of the video games have uncomplicated control mechanisms and might be confined to just the mouse.” Hsu won’t say how significantly every single of these titles makes from advertising, but claims that the best developers on their network commonly earn four to five figures a year month in ad revenue.
What’s the secret to their accomplishment? “First of all, these video games are merely fun,” Hsu said. Beyond that, Hsu says games which might be fast to hook users do nicely, as are game titles that do so in new, original approaches. Although Mochi sees a whole lot of knock-offs of well-known game titles, “when something special comes out, it tends to strike a chord with folks in search of a thing new,” he explained.
The list of best 10 game titles is under.
1. Bloons, created by Ninja Kiwi. A monkey and some darts versus an army of balloons.
2. Hotel Online, created by Realore Studios. Hotel management action game: keep your guests happy with room service, coffee, etc. or lose popularity.
3. Bubble Struggle 2, created by Krešimir Cvitanović. Can one heroic piglet with a speargun defeat waves of falling balls?
4. Papa’s Pizzeria, created by Flipline Studios. Baking action: make money by cooking your pies on time with the right ingredients.
5. Fancy Pants Adventures 2, created by Borne Games. Cool platformer action with appealing visuals and stick-drawing animation — and my personal favorite from this list.
6. Tower Bloxx, created by Digital Chocolate. Another fave: construct a city of skyscrapers by dropping ready-made floors from cranes, but beware wobbly towers.
7. Cube Crash, created by Ocean Breeze Games. Score points by scooping up connecting rows of like-colored cubes.
8. Bricks Breaking, created by Novel Games, distributed by MindJolt Games. Near identical to Cube Crash (above), just less visually attractive.
9. Paris Oh Paris, created by Shaun’s Flights. Possibly NSFW (and definitely cheesy), toss greasy food at the famously annoying, underfed celebrity.
10. Stunt Dirt Bike, created by YouGame.com. Jump cars and other obstacles with your dirt bike in this 2-D side-scrolling game.
Mochi Media, by the way, is spearheading a Flash Gaming Summit business conference subsequent Spring, which consists of “The Mochis,” an award demonstrate that’ll pick out the year’s best games. Which titles would you nominate?