Part 1 – http://www.filesonic.com/file/210488682

Part 2 – http://www.filesonic.com/file/210449101

P.S. No personal website required and this really works!

In a perfect (or even ethically sound) world the bit about Zynga buying a well done game would be true… sadly, Zynga is far more likely to simply rip you off and copy your game, changing little more than the title. (Like they did to “Mob Wars” with their own “Mafia Wars” … Background: http://techcrunch.com/2009/02/14/mob-wars-creator-sues-zynga-for-copyright-infringement/ ) Well, they will change the title and pepper your idea with their own evil little scams to spread their games virally (why do you think they dominate the most popular apps on FB Games? Surely it is not because these “games” are any fun…. hehehe).

Luckily there are other big players emerging in the FB Game market. Playdom is a new face, EA is a gaming mainstay that is taking a stab at the FB market, Big Fish games has ported one of their classic PC Games to FB… and we can only expect more and more of the same from some of the established players in the Gaming industry. This is good for the FB Game user but bad for the un-funded, starry-eyed youngster who wants to put their quaint little 3 level adventure game on FB in hopes of becoming a millionaire. That’s what Kongregate is for… where “millionaire” is replaced by “kinda popular kid on a gaming network who made $40 last year from Google Ad revenue share”.

Lest my negativity be misconstrued, I did not mean to discourage the right team with a bright idea and a great game from entering the market and making a killing… there’s ALWAYS room for that kind of play. The market needs that stuff to keep the big guys on their toes. I was just hoping to discourage the “quick buck” thinkers from trying to put forth their pitiful spam-machine and making it that much harder for us to find a quality experience within the Facebook app catalog… that is the stuff that the big players are counting on to bolster their own images (and profits).

So if your idea is bad-ass, and you are passionate and serious… by all means, go out there and bring it! But if you think you can put together the “next big thing” in a weekend and start making boatloads of cash by forcing everyone to invite 10 friends… then it’s time to go back to the drawing board shortly after returning to reality. I repeat… no such thing as easy money. Money is really really hard to make a lot of. And a rule of thumb , as cliche as it sounds it’s true: it takes money to make money.

the 75 percent cant be found on this link. Just search for “75 percent”.

I do not think this is correct. Where are you getting your numbers/information? Plus, Zynga’s profits (even as of the writing of this post) are WAY higher than that, actually.

People reading this blog post should realize that there is no such thing as “easy money”, creating a valuable Facebook game/application requires a lot of work and that it takes money to make money. If you are not an experienced developer you can forget about it. The competition will simply steal your idea and execute on it far better than you could have ever hoped (and far quicker, too) … and you will have little to no recourse.

Better to just sit back and be fascinated by it all than to try and jump in to the fray and flood Facebook with low quality apps/games. You won’t make any money and you will only succeed in polluting the already murky library of apps. So I repeat… do not make a Facebook application if you are not a developer. If you ARE a developer… think long and hard about it and don’t try to copy someone else’s game, they will have already made it better than you can (Even if your mom disagrees and thinks your’s is better, it’s not). If all of that does not discourage you then who knows, you might have a shot! Good luck… but please keep all these points in mind when deciding to enter this market.

P.S. The ads on the side of Facebook that you see are Facebook’s own ads… not the developers… and the developers do not see a penny of that revenue regardless of how often they are clicked. Developers must find their OWN ways to monetize their applications and these ways must abide by the Facebook Terms of Use… so if you think you will run your own banner/google ads in your Facebook Game, think again. That’s not allowed. Like i said, no such thing as “Easy Money” or else we would all be rich!

calvin: hahaha. so ano lalaruin mo farm town, barn buddy or happy farm? sina gena happy farm eh.

calvin: hehe gawa ka na lang sarili mo para walang kahati.