40 million loads that is! I was checkin out my mochibot stats and Flash Element TD is about to hit the big four zero. With 160,000+ loads a day it will not be long now.
40,000,000. That’s like everyone in California building some towers, or the combined population of New York, Washington, Ohio, Colorado, AND Kentucky wondering if they should go for fire or earth upgrades. Or if you are a Brit like me that is 79% of the UK population! Pretty amazing. [data from here]
Interestingly (well for me as I love stats) the majority of traffic is not people playing it on my site. I worked out that only 27.2% of loads take place on my domain, leaving a whopping 72.8% of plays taking place on other peoples sites.
In the past this sort of “Flash Piracy” would have been a big worry to game developers like myself who rely on in-site advertising such as Googles AdSense, but with in-game advertising provided by mochiads it is possible to keep earning revenue even when the game is hosted elsewhere. Without this I would be trying my hardest to prevent people from re-hosting the game, but now I can let it run free which “feels” better to me, the whole point of making a game is to have people playing it right?!
Thanks to all who played and are still playing, Quantast tells me that 44% of players are “regulars” and 2% are “addicted” maybe we need to start a program for DTD and ELE TD addicts.
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June 8, 2007 at 12:21 am
wow 40 million thats very impressive…If only my flash skills were better =(
I wonder…can someone link me to the DTD stats page?
June 8, 2007 at 5:12 am
guys, thats awesome. You deserve it. I look forward to the new stuffz you’ll be making!
June 8, 2007 at 7:20 am
[...] Scott of Novel Concepts and the creator of Flash Element TD just posted a great blog entry about how his game is about to reach 40 million game plays. That’s a very impressive number [...]
June 8, 2007 at 4:18 pm
40m! SUPER awesome.
Ads in-game; brilliant solution to the piracy issue.
June 8, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Now all this post needs is a link to the game in question. To google i go.
June 8, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Oops, I have edited the entry and made the words “Flash Element TD” link to the game. I am sure if you Google it though you will find it.
June 9, 2007 at 11:59 am
wow, they are some super impressive stats!
June 9, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Wow guys, thats awesome, I know I’m one of the ones playing it everyday! ^^
June 9, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Wait isn’t four 0’s 10,000? Whatever, I know I’ve been a good portion of that. Good luck.
June 11, 2007 at 3:31 am
Congratulations.. I’m definitely in the wrong line of blogging… I need to create an addictive flash game!
June 11, 2007 at 7:41 am
thts clever man.
July 6, 2007 at 1:13 am
you are nice people : )
July 27, 2007 at 2:05 am
That’s AMAZING! you guys have made a truly awesome game! I play it like 5 times a day ^_^
July 27, 2007 at 10:29 pm
i usally play element TD on http://www.alliancerankings.com its for a browser based MMORPG i play they have an arcade there with ELE TD on it wicked game kudos to the designers.. am one of the 2% whose addicted :P
August 16, 2007 at 5:23 pm
I hope you’re sucessful.
Giving us free games and still getting paid from it. Pure genius.
October 20, 2007 at 6:52 am
I would like to know that, Is this Flash Element TD can be play on symbian mobile phone or not. By the way, thank you for created this incredible game.