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I have a relative coming to visit soon and I’m not looking forward to it. I hate people getting into my business so I have been holding off on redesigning my website for a few days now. With the new site will come a new flash game (quick and dirty style) but I need to clean my crap hole too. My sense of dread overshadows my need to be creative this is not a good situation when I figure this out I’ll post again.

This is not going to be the usual post about procrastination, you know the common don’t procrastinate blah blah blah. I have held off on doing a great many things for my current game so I could watch Naruto at hulu.com. Well there is some fruit from that I revived my interest in my project Save Xhoon, I’ve added new features and I’m about to add a new animation, if Photoshop will work for me. You see I usually swing around in my chair till I have an idea for the game I’ve been bored to death of. The Naruto breaks are really helping me though there is the possibility of wasting the day, I’ll just have to work a lot harder to know when it’s time to get back to work. In June I finished watching the Macross arc of Robotech(Yes I know all about the Macross vs Robotech debate and I don’t care), I think it actually helped my work. I just remembered I would take walks in the middle of the day, but that was a long time ago in winter, I guess this is my adaptation to the summer. Don’t feel guilty about your indulgences, you might just add value to your project and shorten your time on it. 

I recently added a game that I thought was very good except for one caveat: the graphic representation of blacks within the game was very exagerated. The typical big lip and bulging white of their eyes. I though it was a good game to add to my site but the image of the blacks within it is just to much for me. I thought how I would explain this to my family and my rational for adding it just evaporated. I been called all kinds of names but the racial one hurt the most. When some is trying to hurt you on that level its hard to ignore. So I’m pulling the game, I suppose I should have had more sense than to put it up in the first place. I almost sold my soul for nothing, I feel shame.

And for those of you that are artist please do some research if you want to add blacks to your game. It would have been better if they left the blacks out of this game. I would have noticed the absense but would have considered it an oversite instead of a racial attack.  No one should fear adding black characters to their game even if its a bad guy but don’t stoop to racial stereotypes. Basically, don’t use Tin Tin style graphics and your almost there. There is an added problem the portal that made or commisioned this game will get no juice from me.

question - What game am I talking about?

Answer  - Why give them a cent of advertizing revenue?  

Well enzogames free flash arcade is now at page rank 2! I have no idea how I got to PR2 but I’m happy. I must say I was really unhappy since the middle of june when I found out that google didn’t pass any PR via no follow comments. It pays to read Matt Cutts blog. I had been ready to devote all my time to adding games and working on save xhoon, when I checked earlier today and found I have my pr2 (my precious, ugly hobbit wants me precious.. he can’ts have…no..). I was never even at a PR1. Goes to show that google works in mysterious ways. I will be commenting on do follow site when I gat some time. Its nice to achieve something every once in a while, it helps with the coding.

I’ve been trying my hardest to make a simple throw mini game inside my Save Xhoon project and failed. I’ve been dragged around for days on family crap and getting very angry. And then I realize a game I had made earlier could be used for the mini game instead giving me almost exactly what I wanted. Sometime try to make everything fit nice and neat turn into a failure. And Sometimes you need to get away for a while to see that there is an easier way.

ME: I had my mind set on Xinks?

You: What?

Me: this

There is no guarantee that any game will make a ton of money and no matter how much you believe it won’t make it so.

I new that I could cash in on the match 3 craze with this game, Well if you don’t ship the game you’ll never make a dollar.

Mistake 2: The language, IDE, The myth GameMaker is not as easy to use as many think. yes you can get many things up and running.  But polishing a game is difficult.

The language is not as straight forward as many other languages, so forget about getting complex code from the internet to work quickly.

Mistake 3: That said I was too idealistic and not pragmatic enough. Sometimes you have to roll the dice and forget about the experts. Do your own research put you game up on forums.indiegamer.com and see what they say (if anything at all) and then move on. Mistake 4: Perfectionism doesn’t sell. This is important so I will highlight it If YOU CAN’T Don’t waste you time. What I mean by this is if they say get an artist well try harder at making your art better but if you KNOW you did your best and can’t afford it then get going and release the game into the wild. This too is very important (but I won’t highlight it), getting something out there will let you move forward on all you other plans. What plans? Building the website(should have done that first read seo), putting out press releases(even if it sucks a bit), uploading to download.com and the rest. This will give you a feel for what to do when your next game comes. Mistake 5. Which I didn’t actually make but you might so… Decide are you a programmer first or a game developer first. The goal is to put out games and make games not build everything up from scratch. And if your broke like me you need to do your own art and find sound fx and music etc.. So you won’t have time to build it all so you can know it all inside and out. You can’t program it all in any company so why put that barrier up for yourself? Keep this in mind, You need money to stay afloat. ps. What language am I using now - Flex-AS3 in FlashDevelop.

I wasn’t the original owner of Enzogames.com I was the second owner. The owner from what I can piece together was a Brazilian who wanted to sell his 3d games under the name of Enzogames. I wanted to sell 2d games( more on this later ), but fell into using a white label game distributor.  And this article is that story of multipronged failure.

multipronged?

1. Game creation

2. Game sales

3. Marketing

4. Advertising

Hopefully, you can learn from my mistakes and turn a profit sooner than I did.

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