Eggy’s Blog

Well here we are almost at the end of the year 2007. I thought I’d write up a long post on pretty much everything of the year and things to come. It’s been a pretty good year I’d say, a few things have happened here and there since it’s the year I’ve turned 18. Getting my license, finishing Tafe, going out a lot more. Just the usual teen stuff. Been a pretty good year for flash too. I’ve gotten 2 front pages and a daily first on newgrounds. Thats one more than last year, so I guess I’ve gotten better, yet Nodes still wasn’t good enough to compete with Draw-Play. Didn’t make it over a 4+ I managed to finish 8 Flash’s, within 12 months, hopefully next year I can start to pick up my game and release one a month.

Now that I’ve finished tafe hopefully I can get more games done because I won’t be busy at all, and I also don’t have a gf to take any time either…..yet anyway, I’m bad with showing emotion, I think I need them to make first moves :S I don’t know…I don’t really have any experience lol… and I’m just generally shy with girls…end up as just a nice guy…a friend….sigh.

My plans for next year are to get out some more great games. I try and make something different every time, I try change things up, it makes it more fun, though I’ll release a sequel here and there if demanded of popular games. I’m trying to get into multiplayer servers since even simple multiplayer games do so well, but it’s tricky and I still got a lot to learn in that department.

I’m so frickin’ fed up of seeing games that are exact copy’s of others with just some shiny new slabbed on graphics, it really pisses me off. They’re just hopping on the chain to make money, it’s pathetic really. The one’s that really annoyed me were the Tower Defence ones. Desktop Tower Defence, and a couple of others were the first to arrive on the scene then in the next month everyone made clones. DTD was good, the clones - Pathetic.

Whats the point of copying things? The scores still stay high it’s frustrating. The problem is, flash games are played by people really quickly so they don’t know the history behind them ect, they don’t know it’s been copied, so they vote high. It’s basically a problem that’s hard to fix. Every few years you can release the same idea with new graphics and no one really notices.

Also I started up The Eggcomic this year, which has had some medium success for the amount I’ve done. I’ll have to wait and see when I have a lot more done, I’ve been slacking lately in that department and must start to do some more. I usually think of heaps of jokes but they just aren’t suited to comics which is annoying.

The main thing I’m going to be playing around with also this year is ads on my site, if I can find the best ad sites and get it nicely set up I can make a decent income, then I wouldn’t have to get a proper job yay….and could finally quit coles (THE HELLHOLE!) The old version of my site cremationproductions.com used to have google ads which when I released Draw-Play was bringing in like $50 a day in ads, but google ads clsed my account saying I had fraud clicks which is bullshit, and I didn’t even get the money I made from it. So my trust for ad sites is pretty low.

This blog seems to get 500 views a day and has had a total of 100,000 views, not bad, I wonder how many of them peopel actually read anything. I’m happy with that. Basically I see this blog as more of an open diary, where I can write it up and look back on it in a few years to read my stuff, so that should be interesting. Also it’s to entertain people, and people that are just nosy into my life I love when people leave comments too, so don’t be shy, just to let me know your reading.

Well thats about it I think for now, I know it’s early but I felt like writing this up now -

Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year!

Lots of love from your FAVOURITE GAME MAKER RIGHT? AM I RIGHT? yeah I so am.