Spill Group, the owner of more than 20 online game portals, has published my flash game Enigmatica on their network! Since last weekend, Enigmatica can be played on all their sites, including www.gamesgames.com, www.spelletjes.be and many others.

This is great news of course, since it means a lot of new people discover my game (about 180000 gameplays in the first 5 days), and a good percentage of those people also click the links in the game to my own online games site, www.smileygamer.com. It’s nice to see Enigmatica getting a bit of a second life, after a slow start!

After the recent release of Smiley Memory, I’m currently working on a new flash game. This one will be a mini arcade game, to be finished somewhere next week. It’s main purpose, besides being fun, is to attract more visitors to my Smiley Gamer site. Since Smiley Memory will only be distributed to other gaming sites at the end of october, this smaller game should fill the void, and give me a chance to develop another larger smiley related game.

Finally! The coolest memory game ever has been released to the public! For those who haven’t read my blog yet, Smiley Memory is a challenging memory game, in the popular action puzzler genre. Find the matching pairs of smileys before your lifebar runs out. But beware, making mistakes will make it run out faster. And worse, when the shorter movebar runs out, the smileys will start to move around! Give it a try here or here.

The game was already finished for a while, but due to negotiations I had to wait until today to release it. It’s released simultaneously on both my SmileyGamer arcade site, and on GameGarage.

For 3 months, the game will be exclusively available on these 2 sites only. After this period, it can be licensed by other sites, and after that a free version will also be created and distributed to other online gaming sites.

To end, I’d like to give special thanks to MazeMaster, who’s great song Dreams Of Above is used in the game!

Smiley Memory, my new flash game, is now in beta stage! I’ve done the highscores integration with the Smiley Gamer website, improved the gameplay and some animations, and added an intro screen. Find out more about the game here.

I’m still looking for beta testers, don’t hesitate to contact me through this form!

It’s been way too long since my last blog update. But there are good reasons: I’ve been working hard on both my new Flash game, Smiley Memory, and my Smiley Gamer online games arcade.

Smiley Memory is an action-puzzler based on the classic game of Memory. The goal is to find matching pairs of smileys, within the given time. What makes the game unique, is the added difficulty that the smileys will move around from time to time, in a number of different patterns.

Smiley Memory is currently in alpha stage, but I should be able to have a beta version by the end of this week. The most important things to do are finetuning of the gameplay, adding some animations and polishing the graphics, and adding sound and maybe music.

I’m always looking for some good beta testers, so if you want to give the game a try, don’t hesitate to contact me through this form.

Smiley Memory will be the first game to come out of the Smiley Puzzle Project. I started this project more than a year ago, and it has gone through several changes. The current strategy is to make online games is flash, that function as advergames for the Smiley Gamer arcade website. Although this is a big step away from the original plan to make downloadable games in java, the core idea to make interesting puzzle and action-puzzler games has stayed the same!

Three weeks ago I launched the beta version of my new online games arcade, SmileyGamer.com. While the site is still in beta, I already made some changes to the design and color scheme. I went to dark text on a light background, to make it easier on the eyes.

Since the launch, the site has received almost 16000 visitors, and more than 45000 pageviews. This is definitely more than I expected! According to Google Analytics, almost 60% are direct visitors, i.e. not referred by another site. Most of these are people who click on the links in my flash game Enigmatica, which I released not long after the site went live.

In the past few weeks I’ve been spreading the freeware version of Enigmatica to several online game websites. It is surprising to see how many people visit the site thanks to the game. So the free version of Enigmatica is not only giving me a small residual income with the included MochiAds advertisement, but also through the advertising on my website.

Making money with a games arcade is rather hard though, the revenue from Google Adsense ads is very very low. Most visitors visit the site to play games, not to click on ads! But fortunately I was accepted with ValueClickMedia last week! They are an ad network that also pays for pageviews of the ad, so I make money even if people don’t actually click on the ads.

The rest of the traffic was mostly obtained thanks to banner exchanges, like MoreGamers and ArcadeBanners, social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon, and link exchanges with other arcades.

I still have several features planned for the website, before I can call it final. But even more important is to continue work on Smiley Memory, which will be my next Flash game! Already mentioned before, Smiley Memory will be the first game from the Smiley Puzzle Project. This game will feature the 3D smiley’s also used on the Smiley Gamer site. I expect it to become a lot more popular than Enigmatica, so it will be a great promotion for the site! It’s great to see the Smiley Puzzle Project, originally started more than a year ago, finally come to life!

As this blog is, among other things, about making money online, it’s about time I write something about Agloco! Rumour is all over the net that they’re going to launch their viewbar very soon now!

For those who have been living in a cave the last few months, Agloco gives you a way to make money just for surfing the web. All you have to do is install their viewbar. For the long story, I gladly refer to their website.

In my quest for online passive income, it’s rather obvious I signed up for their program. And since I can make more money by referring people, it should be rather obvious this post is full of referral links

Like most bloggers, I (ab)use my blog to get referrals. But unlike most bloggers, I’m not going to write endlessly about how Agloco works, and how it is good for you, and will make you rich, and do your homework too. No, my message is plain and simple: I want to make money with Agloco. And if you want the same, stop reading and sign up already!!

Not interested? Then go play a game!

The freeware version of my Flash game Enigmatica has been released on my new arcade SmileyGamer.com! If you are a webmaster, you can put this version for free on your own website or games arcade. Download the full package here.

Contrary to the version that is available for licensing, the freeware version contains advertising from MochiAds, an ad network for Flash games. It also contains logo’s from, and links to the Smiley Gamer website, and it’s integrated with the highscore system of that same site.

Check out the games for your site page at Smiley Gamer to see all our games that are available for free and for licensing.

Yesterday, I uploaded the game to Newgrounds, and it has already received some nice reviews over there!

In case you were wondering, yes, the Smiley Puzzle Project is still alive! While the actual games are still under development, the project has gotten a new scope.

As discussed before, the SmileyPuzzleGames.com site was intended to become a small games arcade featuring my smiley related games. But instead of developing this site, it seemed like a better idea to take it a few steps further, and actually build a full-blown online games arcade.

So I registered the SmileyGamer.com domain, and started building my arcade based on PHPArcadeScript. It’s now in a reasonable state, which I just declared the beta stage, so have a look for yourself:

Some of the reasons for dropping my original plans:

• A full-blown arcade can be used to showcase my own games to a wide audience.
• If I can let my arcade grow and start getting serious traffic, the site can start generating some decent advertising income.
• I will spread freeware versions of my own Flash games to other arcade sites, with links to my arcade, as a way to get more traffic.
• Since I wont be focusing on smiley related games alone, a general games arcade is a better home for my first Flash game, Enigmatica, and my java game Bubblomania.
• Also, I will not only make puzzle games, but other genres as well. So the SmileyGamer.com domain is better suited than SmileyPuzzleGames.com.

This change of plans also means I will be focusing my attention to webgames made with Flash, rather than downloadable games made with Java. I wrote previously about why to make this switch. I might still decide to make a downloadable version if any of my webgames becomes wildly popular, but for now, sticking to webgames makes more business sense.

If you visit the site, and find any problems or have feedback, please let me know by using the contact page on the Smiley Gamer site, or leave a comment here on this blog.