Pow Pow’s Mini-Golf Goes on a Putting Spree

[terin]

Pow Pow’s Mini-Golf Goes on a Putting Spree


December 16th 2005- Pow Pow and Mai Mei are back from their great adventure from their debut action title “Pow Pow’s Great Adventure.” What better way to kick back and relax than a quick round of 9 or 18 hole mini-golf? Outside the Box Software, www.outsidetheboxsoftware.com, is proud to announce that Pow Pow’s Mini-Golf, the latest game in the Pow Pow series, is now available to play from their website. Pow Pow’s Mini-Golf plays right from a web browser with no download and is absolutely free to play. Head over to the website and start putting like a pro with no waiting.

Maybe it started as a date, maybe it started as a bet. Either way Pow Pow and Mai Mei are going to solve their differences through a game of mini-golf. Take control of either Pow Pow or Mai Mei in their latest “adventure” at their local golf course. Control the power, angle, and accuracy of their shot. With 3D cameras, realistic physics, and the ability to visualize shots, Pow Pow’s Mini-Golf will provide an outlet for putting fantasies on rainy days.

To go a step further, each shot you take gives your putter experience. When the round ends the character adds their experience and gains levels. As they level up new golfing skill points become available. Place these skill points into power, accuracy, luck, or visualization to create the putt-putt champion of the world! When their skill is up to snuff, take them online against live opponents, all from the safety of a web browser.

Pow Pow’s Mini-Golf is absolutely free, so enjoy it and other Pow Pow games at www.outsidetheboxsoftware.com.

[Chris Evans]

I'd just like to mention that the game has already exceeded my expectations by a great deal! During this week, tens of thousands of people have been playing the game daily. Well over 100,000 game sessions have already been played. I actually had to keep delaying putting out this press release with Joe since my server was nearing full capacity at times.

I'm not complaining though because It's generated over $100 a day just in Adsense revenue alone. :) It's also substantially increased my downloads for my downloadable titles by an additional 800 - 1600+ downloads per day.

Player feedback has also been great so far, which is very gratifying.

I took a gamble by spending quite a bit of time developing a fairly involved web game that is completely free and doesn't have a full version upgrade. But the gamble seems to have paid off. It's generating a lot of traffic to the site, boosted game downloads, and become a solid alternative revenue stream itself with the Ads.

So I'm very happy and I'm looking forward to getting even more exposure for the game with Terin's press release! :)

[terin]

Chris,

Just a thought: You should make the Adwords link open in a new window if you can. I was playing multiplayer and clicked on one :(

Enjoy the 5-10 cents from me!

-Joe

[Drake]

Over 100,000 plays in a week? Wow! That's really great.

Congrats, glad to hear your gamble is paying off. :)

[Mike Boeh]

Better yet, serve ads that pay out better than adwords.....

[Jim Buck]

Holy crap! Congratulations, that's awesome! $100/day*365 plus whatever you making from the sales of your game.. damn, you're now in the top 1% of indie developers, I think. :)

[Chris Evans]

Better yet, serve ads that pay out better than adwords.....

If anyone could recommend a quality trustworthy Ad network it would be greatly appreciated! :) There's a lot of Ad networks out there, but it's tricky to find the good gones.

Holy crap! Congratulations, that's awesome! $100/day*365 plus whatever you making from the sales of your game.. damn, you're now in the top 1% of indie developers, I think.

Well it's been a very good week that's for sure. But I'd like to wait a month or so and see how my traffic is then before I consider myself in the top 1%. :)

[Jack Norton]

If anyone could recommend a quality trustworthy Ad network it would be greatly appreciated! :) There's a lot of Ad networks out there, but it's tricky to find the good gones.

Adsense is one of the best around because doesn't pop-up unwanted windows or flash things that makes the user immediatly close the browser and ban your site as "sh*t" :)

You might want to try Chitika (https://chitika.com/mm_overview.php?refid=rei1974) , they seem to be good.

Or just look at pavlina blog, that site is totally spammed with ads :D

[chanon]

Wow, congratulations!

Looks like I'll have to try developing some web games for our site too!

[Indiepath.T]

Wow, congratulations!

Looks like I'll have to try developing some web games for our site too!
Shameless Plug: Use igLoader and serve you existing games.

[Chris Evans]

Or just look at pavlina blog, that site is totally spammed with ads :D

Wow, I haven't been to pavilna's site in awhile. I could barely find his blog among all those ads. :)

Anyway, after doing some preliminary research I'm still not quite sure what I'm going to do. Right now with Google Adsense, I just have a single 480x60 text/image ad that brings in most of the money. It fits in nicely with the page and doesn't seem to really annoy players. A similar 480x60 banner ad with other Ad networks pays only .30 - .50 cents CPM. Even though Google is only pay per click, I have a much better CPM than that with Adsense.

Of course the Ad networks have some other higher paying options, but they're also the more annoying options for end users. I'd rather have a link and screen shots to one of my games (or an affiliates) instead of a huge Skyscraper Flash gambling ad.

[Jim Buck]

Steve claims to be doing really well with those tabbed-style of ads he has on his page.. and he says they are very quick to get up and running. Could be worth a try.

[soniCron]

Congratulations on the mention (http://jayisgames.com/archives/2006/01/pow_pows_minigolf.php) on jay is games (http://www.jayisgames.com/)!

[Chris Evans]

Thanks! :)

I'm very happy with the review too. It was very detailed and the positive comments were nice, but his criticisms were also fair and helpful. There's not too much else you could ask from a review.