So the game I showed in my last blog post has now been released; Santas Blizzard Blitz. Unfortunately the game did not attract enough attention to get itself a sponsorship (I'm not going to pontificate on the reasons, but I know it has a few flaws), so I am once again going to release the game myself with ads. If it were a non-seasonal game I'd just let it sit and wait for something to come through, but for a Christmas themed game there is only a few weeks in the year where it would get any attention. Although the game did get one bid of $100, I felt I could easily make that on my own, especially since I have outstanding revenues from previous games that are currently below their payout thresholds.

I'm not expecting great things from going this way, especially since I am using a few different ad networks to see how they perform, which will split any earnings (and risk not even reaching those payout thresholds). But hopefully MindJolt will once again come to the rescue; they will be publishing the game on Dec 22nd. Although from anecdotal evidence it seems their revenue from their ads is not what is once was, it will probably still make up the bulk of any plays/earnings. I'm also implementing their micro-payments system, so it will be interesting to see how that goes.

And with that, there goes my last colour-matching puzzle game. It's now time to move on to something a bit more complicated.