That’s my own personal top 10 table of games produced over the last 2 years, the top ten accounts for just over 75 million game plays, which is pretty amazing. When i first started and my first game was played over a million times I was really surprised, out of the 35 games I’ve worked on there are only 3 which have failed to reach a million, that was splatter, bobblox and chooka world.

Its also interesting to see trends in which games do well, the top 5 games are all sim/ serving games, the big difference with those sort of games isnt the initial spike it’s the long term appeal they have, several games I’ve released have had huge initial spikes which drop off very rapidly but the sim games have a huge long tail often doing 10,000+ plays a day even years after release.

Firstly a few bits of news Heavy Weapons won the weekly best on Kongregate and picked up the daily award from Newgrounds with a score of 4.34, which is my first ever win on there. It has been a bit of a mystery as the game has done phenomenally well on Kong and Newgrounds but hasn’t done anywhere near as well on other sites in terms of plays. It kind of shows how different the demographics are between those 2 sites which are mainly teenage boys and the more casual games players. The teenage boys are used to xbox / playstation games and expect the flash games to have a similar quality, of which heavy compares quite well and it also has a long play time. These kids are quite prepared to put an hour into a flash game where as the average gameplayer is only after a 5 minute bit of fun.

The reviews of heavy have also been very complimentary but our favourite was “this game could kill Chuck Norris”, high praise indeed !

The other bit of strange news is I’ve had 2 games nominated in the addicting games showdown, both Synapsis and Dibs adventures have been nominated in the “Greatest escape game” and the “Best Game from planet random” respectively. I have no idea what the winners get and I’d be very suprised if I won as the competition is pretty stiff but hey its nice to be even considered. The nice people at addicting games have even done me a few buttons so if you’d like to vote click on one !