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We've been serving in-game ads for several years now and it is the exceptional click through rates that that have prompted us to open up our network directly under the brand of Playvertising.
While a game is loading, the typical game player has nothing to do except watch the ad. It is one of the few situations online where you have someones undivided attention.
There is more information over at Playvertising.com
We've had over 17,000 votes cast now in our little viral game Poll Position in only a couple of weeks. The game took just a couple of days to make and has had very little promotion. Shows how a relevent game that kind of hits the spot can really get out there for minimal investment.
What is the Fizzy GLS? The GLS is the Fizzy Game Loading System. It is a piece of software developed in Flash that is necessary to successfully upload your game as an Enhanced or Pay to Play (Download or Subscription) game on Fizzy. The GLS enables your game to check user info on Fizzy, enable score submission and load the game correctly. It also includes pre-loader ads which means you will earn more money if you use the GLS. It also allows us to distribute your game to other websites, which will earn you even more money and you get version management thrown in.
Forget the policies, the press, the smear campaigns and the history, Australians just want to focus on Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott in the race towards the Federal Election in under five weeks.
Who wins is anyone's guess and with the nation more likely to tune into Masterchef than the Great Election Debate, Aussies are looking for easy answers to that all important question: Just who should get my vote?
Every 2 months we hold a 3RDsense Pool Competition to decide who is King of the Felt. The 3RDsense pool table is more than just a fun way to spend an afternoon after a hard day's work. It's our meeting room, water cooler and a place where great minds come together for a brainstorm. There's nothing like shooting some pool to get the creative juices flowing. Because it gets used so frequently we have cultivated a company full of pool sharks. Seriously, Neil Robertson has got nothing on some of the 3RDsense developers.
Historically, Swords and Sandals 3: Multiplae Ultratus has been consistantly the most popular game on our portal Fizzy.com. Released originally in August 2008 along with single-player companion game Solo Ultratus , the game was built as a vehicle to build up subscriber traffic to our website. It was not, however, available as a downloadable purchase.
It has been a long time between major gaming projects for this little black duck, let me tell you! Since my last major game release back in September '09 (that being Exmortis 3) there has been a long cue of client projects receiving priority attention from my calendar.
However between all this awesome client action that has been stealing me away, I have been plodding away on a new gaming project that is set to venture in to a genre that you may not traditionally associate my name with.
In breaking news, Google Inc. has invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million into social games giant Zynga. The exact details of the partnership are still unknown, but industry analysts are speculating that the strategic partnership will form the foundation for the upcoming launch of "Google Games", Google's new online gaming service.
Zynga has an ongoing 5-year commitment to Facebook and only recently signed a games distribution deal with Yahoo! for Yahoo! Games.
It’s a wonder Mark Pincus still has time to play cards with his dog.
- Chris Gander
Swords and Sandals, to date our most popular series of online games, has been around for some time now. The light-hearted gladiatorial combat game first made its debut on Fizzy's precursor site Playaholics way back in 2005 and was received enthusiastically by the web game playing audience. Many millions of plays, three sequels, a spinoff game and an Android mobile version later, the game continues to evolve and sell well . So, for us as a company, Swords and Sandals is big business.
However, whilst the brand "Swords & Sandals" is in essence 5 years old, the game itself is much, much older. This morning as I prepared some early game map sketches for the upcoming Swords and Sandals V, a great sense of familiarity came over me. I've drawn this map before. Many times, in fact. In fact, I've written this game before - twenty years ago.
How many times have you wondered exactly what a "Devigner" is? None - probably... considering it's a word that I just made up. But that is what I consider myself as well as a few colleagues of mine here in the 3RDsense office.
Traditionally in the application & game development world you can usually determine what pigeon hole a person is in by their skill sets. And more often than not, you would label someone as either a Designer or a Developer.
My how the world has changed and so much of it is attributed to the emergence of Adobe Flash almost 15 years ago.
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