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How to Make Money from Video Games
Online Video Course
Learn how to triumph against all odds and make money
from Video Games
across a broad spectrum of areas
regardless of your experience and resources
Sections
The introductory section of the video course. Find out which sections and methods you could undertake according to your abilities and interests. You should look at this section first.
A game niche is a small but sustainable segment of the gaming market.
Game niches can provide nice flows of income and they remain largely untapped by big companies.
However, it can be hard to find a good niche and even harder to tap into the niche and make money. You could waste
lots of time simply looking for a suitable niche only to find that there aren’t enough people within the niche to make it worthwhile.
Find out in this section not just how to find the best suited niches, but also how to make money from them successfully.
Why not educate and entertain at the same time?
Educational games are different from other games, since they have an additional component that teaches the kid about a topic.
Educational games are harder to design than other main types of games, because you have to balance the educational part of the game with the fact that it still must be entertaining.
Learn from this section how you can strike the balance and find out how you can succeed with making and selling your own educational video games.
There is a huge market for mobile games, since all types of people play them regardless of their technical know-how.
This market is also extremely saturated with existing mobile phone games. As such, it can be hard to get your own
games noticed.
Find out the best ways to develop mobile phone games (on a limited budget as well!) and then get them noticed for people to buy.
This special type of advertising consists of dynamically-created advertising content within your existing games.
Dynamic in-game advertising acts as a nice supplement to your existing revenue stream. However if it’s not done right
it can be extremely intrusive to the end user, causing people to leave your games in droves.
At the same time the advertising must be in a prominent enough location for a company to agree to advertise with you.
This section teaches you how to juggle the needs of the gamer with the advertiser, while lifting your profits even higher than before.
Learn also about some of the hot spots to go for people interested in advertising in games.
Licensed games present the prospect of creating and selling games based on the popularity of a license such as a movie or novel.
The main problem with relying on such a license is that if the license is very popular, it costs a lot of money to get the permission to make the game. If the license is not popular enough then the profits are substantially reduced.
Learn how to avoid the common legal pitfalls associated with this method and how to make games that thrive on the popularity of their license.
Games must come from somewhere, and that somewhere is from you. You will most likely deal directly with game design and development at one stage.
At the same time you do not want to fritter away money on expensive tools, only to find out later they are not
what you need.
Learn from this very important section about the fundamentals of
game development.
You also learn about the best tools you should use depending on your abilities and the types of games that you
wish to make.
Advergames are all about advertising a company's product. They are not sold, since the money is made through advertising the product.
The main problem with advergames is finding a suitable company that needs such software to advertise their wares.
If you can’t find suitable companies or even develop the advergames properly then you are sunk from the beginning.
Fortunately this section imparts on you what you need to know about how to make and sell these types of games
to other companies successfully.
Online web-based advertising is a good way to generate profit from existing web pages on your game site.
You only have a limited amount of space available on your web pages, so using that space effectively is of paramount importance. If you don’t know how to best use that space, then it is wasted on ineffectual advertising.
Learn which pages are best used for advertising, as well as the best places to get hooked up with advertisers (Google Ads isn’t the only place in the world).
This section also shows you how to best use the space you have, so that you can make the most money possible
from online advertising.
Open source games are games which allow for the use of their source code and components under a particular license.
Some licenses can stop you from using the source code in any meaningful projects, so it is extremely important to know what the main open source licenses are about.
Unfortunately it is also hard to find out what each license is about, because you have to read through and memorize pages of unfriendly legal writing.
However when utilized in the right way, open source materials can greatly speed up development of your own games.
Find out where to get the best open source games, as well as what the main licenses mean in ordinary language.
Use open source games properly, and they will further speed you along to making profits from your own games.
The closest thing to make money playing video games is to become a game journalist. This would allow you to play games for money.
Game journalism however is not as idealistic as it seems. It's not as simple as "play game, make money".
If you aren’t prepared for the discipline and skills that are required from a decent journalist, then you will find that no one will even read your material.
Find out through this section what it takes to become a game journalist, and how to make good money from
video game journalism.
Bundling other people’s software with your own can allow you to generate profits from existing downloads on your site.
You need to be careful when bundling third party software. One ignorant mistake is enough to ruin the entire operation.
Disgusted end users would stop downloading your software and download sites might even ban you if the bundled software is found to be hiding malignant spyware, viruses and other nasties.
Learn how to bundle only the most suitable software to generate additional profits, while avoiding the mistakes that ruin your reputation and turn off your end users.
Selling other people's products for a commission means more restrictions for you.
The good news is that it allows you to go straight from game, to cash, to wealth. Make money through this method and you won't need to worry much about development.
Selling for a commission also means less money for you, but this could be greatly offset by selling a product that ordinarily has high development costs.
Learn how to make the best out of selling other people's products and keep away from the complications that will
otherwise pop up.
Bonuses
Your game site can’t do much without visitors. Learn the best methods on how to drive more people to your game web site with this eBook.
Get the bigger picture on gaining Internet wealth. Find out more broad information on succeeding in the world of Internet business.
Learn important strategies such as approaching the situation with the right mind set to gain the most profit.
Certain questions are raised when you are trying to sell something online. The answers to your most commonly asked marketing questions are right here.
This is a handy in-house developed sample flash game, complete with web pages and the original design files. The main game design file is saved in the Flash 8 editor format.
It is always a good idea for you to have your own site. This eBook will give you the foundation steps needed in order to get your game site off the ground and generate its own popularity in no time.
This eBook is an in-house production, so you will not find it anywhere else.
Special credits to:
Q-Music
ITE
NEO Sounds
Mark E Buckland
For their freely given short sound effects/music clips.
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