This casual games traffic thing is pretty crazy. I had no idea Addicting Games had such a spotlight to focus. Here are some interesting numbers:
- 334,000 plays of the Olympic Torch Game on Addicting Games (within 48 hours of posting).
- 874 ratings, 367 reviews on Addicting Games (mostly complaining about the game being too short).
- 51,198 plays today on Addicting Games (since midnight PST), and that’s without being the biggest featured game on the homepage.
- #10 most popular game on Addicting Games of the last week.
- 54,000 visits to our homepage since the game was posted at Addicting Games. Nearly half of those visits came from sites that “borrowed” the game off of the Addicting Games website and reposted it on their own, primarily AGAME.
- 2,000 people have signed-up for our beta test (but only 500 of those actually entered a valid e-mail address). That’s about the same number of people who played the two games on our homepage.
Wow, I’m blown away. We never expected that much traffic to be sent our direction from this game. I hope the momentum keeps up for the next week or so… we’re getting close to unveiling the real deal.
Oh, and for those folks who saw my presentation on the Craft of Gamemaking: this is what I meant by “replay is a myth.”