How do I Make Money with my Flash Games?

Great, so you have completed a Flash game that you are happy with and you are going to release it out to the world. Why not make some extra cash with it? Not only will you make extra cash, but your game will be seen by more people than it would have otherwise, so it's a win win situation. Here are the top ways to make money with your awesome Flash creations.

1. Getting your game Sponsored

There are many Web Sites that would love to sponsor your Flash game. Why? Because your game will drive more web traffic to their site. Some are willing to pay from $200 - $5000 to sponsor a game. Web sites like ArmorGames.com, CrazyMonkeyGames.com, and many others consistently sponsor games. There are even web sites to help you find a sponsor, flashgamelicense.com is one of those sites. If you would like more information about this option you can check out flashgamesponsorship.com.

2. Placing Advertisements in your Flash game

It's becoming more and more common that people are adding advertisements to their games. The 2 major players in this market are newgrounds.com with their advertising API and MochiAds.com with their video advertisements. I personally prefer newgrounds because their ads are not as annoying and intrusive to the person playing your game.

3. Getting your game Licensed

This is much like getting your game sponsored, however, the web site licensing your game will have exclusive rights to it. This often pays much more, in the range of $5000-$7000 for a great game.

4. Creating traffic for your Web Site

If you have a great web site with a fair amount of monitization then you can use your flash games to send traffic back to your web site. So not only are they playing your game, but they click on the link to your web site and visit that where they will find links to your other games and whatever else you wish to display. For example you can market certain things to the people who visit, for a Flash game site this would be gamers who are most commonly male ages 13-35.

5. Creating a Fully Featured Game

If you are very ambitious you can go as far as to create a fully featured game in Flash. You can then create a demo version and distribute that around the net and have a link back to your web site where you can sell the full version. This is a great marketing strategy as you can see on Xbox Live Arcade.