About 2 years ago, I made a puzzle game for Nokia series 40 mobile phones, called Enigmatica. It’s a mobile adaptation of my game Enigmatic Movements for the mac.

I tried to sell this game through Sharewire and Handango, but I only made a few sales. And since Sharewire keeps the first 25$ each month, I never actually received any money
I also contacted publishers and other distributors, but they didn’t like the fact that the game was only for the nokia series 40.

So since it never really got anywhere, I decided to make the game freeware! It’s available for download over WAP and web from GetJar. It already got quite a few downloads over there, so at least there’s now a bunch of people enjoying the game!

After reading Steve Pavlina’s article about Adsense revenue, I decided to add Google Adsense advertisements to this blog. These are the ads you can see on the left of this page. I tried to make them as non-intrusive as possible, since I’m not really fond of big flashing banners.

A few months ago, I already added adsense to my shareware games site. Up till now, it made me about 10$. So it’s a start…
If you’re interested in adding adsense to your own site, you can click on the Google Adsense button on the left, halfway down this page!

I realize this blog still has very little content, and as a consequence, very low traffic. But I plan to grow these, and it will be interesting to see the results of this experiment. My hope is to eventually be able to pay my web hosting with it! My current host is Canaca, and I’m rather happy with them. Their cheapest offer is 3.95$ per month, for 20GB of web space and 500GB monthly bandwidth! So it’s ideal for hosting shareware and music!

Woohoo!

Bubblomania X is currently the game of the week at the German games site Games4Mac!
With a 5 hearts out of 5 rating no less! Very nice to see some positive news about the game.