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The Growing Popularity of Free & Casual Games

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The Growing Popularity of Free & Casual Games

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Free online internet Frett Board gaming has exploded over the past 10 years and now comprises a large collection of game developers, publishers, web portals, and millions of casual game players. Talented game developers are in more limited supply than publishers and portals. Yet, even they are steadily growing in supply as more companies and brands look for sponsorship deals with high-quality upcoming free driving games.

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Wide brand exposure can be gained from sponsoring free online driving games, and more companies are looking towards game sponsorship and in-game product placement as a serious advertising platform. Portals are in the greatest supply with many gaming-orientated sites offering the developers creations; indeed, some game developers also offer their own web portals such as Ninjakiwi and Armor Games. These are two of the more popular and innovative gaming developers, with Armor Games holding a top 1000 traffic rating.

Behind such successes are talented flash game designers and coders; usually, one or two experienced designers plant the seeds from which top free gaming websites flourish. Casual gaming, both free and paid downloads, have become so huge online that the genre has the greatest presence in the world’s most highly trafficked websites.

Ninjakiwi has an in-house team of developers; they are the trendy brand of driving games named Bloons. The first Bloons game was introduced back in mid-2007, and the series has already been played hundreds of millions of times. If you compare such an audience exposure rate to the most popular video watched on youtube, it is easy to see why advertisers are turning to free online driving games to reach global audiences. What’s more intriguing are the demographics of casual game players, with a considerable percentage of the audience being young adults. This demographic has caught the attention of many blue-chip companies, including mobile giants Orange and O2, who regularly advertise through Mochiads – an in-game preloading ads platform.

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As the advertising revenue increases for free driving games, so will the creativity, detail, and complexity of their design. Developers are now creating games targeted specifically at certain age ranges, including teens, young adults, and mums. Ninjakiwis’ list of driving games is expanding rapidly. As their brand has received greater exposure over the past year, they have branched out from their original success of Bloons to produce other games with different concepts; some have been received with more enthusiasm than others. Some of their successes include: Bloons – Including the player packs, more balloons, and even more blooms, tower defense games, hot air balloon, balloons pop 3.

  • casualBoombot Games – 1 and 2
  • Hotcorn Games – 1 and 2
  • Potion Madness
  • Powerpool
  • Replay Racer – 1 and 2
  • Rings
  • Shinju
  • Sinta
  • Zeba

Ninjakiwi has established a loyal fan base, with their range being published across hundreds of medium to large-sized gaming portals. One of their advertising platforms is through the previously mentioned Mochiads, a major advertising platform for both game developers and game publishers who earn revenue from publishing driving games. A small advert is shown whilst each game is loading in a web browser, developers and publishers earn money from game impressions and advert clicks.

The other free driving games developer previously mentioned Armor driving games is the larger of the 2. Armor develops in-house games, sponsors independent developers, funding their creations, and offers revenue sharing across their advertising platform. Armor games have a much more extensive range of games than Ninjakiwi and have funded the creation of some of the most imaginative games on the internet, a list of some of their best games is compiled below:

  • Armed with Wings – 1 and 2
  • Crush the Castle
  • Hedgehog Launch
  • Hedgehog Launch 2
  • Fancy Pants Adventure – 1 and 2
  • Gemcraft
  • Gemcraft Chapter 0
  • The Last Stand 1 & 2
  • Pillage the Village
  • Sonny
  • Sonny 2
  • Warfare 1917

It is common to find developers and portals alike sharing each other’s driving games. This idea was originally invoked by the biggest casual free game provider on the internet – Miniclip.com. Their success grew from allowing web admins to publish their games on thousands of smaller sites. Sharing and creating viral copies of successful games can prove a very lucrative strategy on the internet.

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There are many more high-quality game developers, publishers, and portals, ones worth a mention include Crazy Monkey Games, Addicting Games, Newgrounds, and Kongregate.
Free game production has also seen the remake of many old classic arcade games, which will delight fans of the 80’s arcade. Classic games such as PacMan, Ms. PacMan, Space Invaders, Pong, and Frogger have all been remade using flash and are now available to play free online games. Paul Neave, a talented flash developer, is responsible for such flash reproductions.

More comprehensive flash gaming communities have sprung up within this landmark 10 year period of growth. One example of a trendy community is MechQuest, which is currently one of 5 flash games created by Artix Entertainment. MechQuest is an online Fantasy/Sci-Fi Web RPG game that offers both a free and premium paid side. The game is built using flash and has millions of members in its community. Striking a balance between casual and hardcore gameplay aims to offer a compromise that allows players who do not wish to spend all day at their PCs a casual multiplayer experience.

Of course, free online games such as MechQuest, AdventureQuest, DragonFable, ArchKnight, and BattleOn.com are a step in the right direction for what online gaming should be about (if we are looking from a healthy perspective), they offer gamers a balanced dosage of online fun which doesn’t require a lifelong commitment to progress and gain in-game rewards. The total opposite would be games such as World of Warcraft designed to reward excessive amounts of gameplay.

The free games market will continue to its rapid growth in the foreseeable future, and more developers will come into the market. Whether flash will remain the market’s main publishing platform remains to be seen, but for now, it will keep its dominant position with all free online game developers using it. Fans can expect to find more elaborate free online flash games introduced in the coming years as free games complete and very much encroach upon paid game audiences.