A look on Omega Box’s statistics 1 week after release. Measuring the stats (whether using Mochi Analytics – not entirely accurate, MochiBot, GamerSafe, or other APIs) is something all developers should do, as the information is critical to the the standing of your current game, and the quality of your future games. (PS thanks to our great bunch of fans!).

Revenue

Although we are unable to disclose the exact amount of $ received, we landed a very generous $x,xxx exclusive licensing deal with AddictingGames. We decided to leave out MochiAds since it brings in only a small percentage of revenue, however the revenue from traffic we receive from Omega Box more than makes up for it.

And note to developers, be true to yourself when negotiating a licensing deal. If you worked hard on your game (meaning red bulls, long nights, & coding marathons) and believe in its quality, it’s only right that you hold the bar for as long as you can at a price you deserve.

Average of Ratings from Major Portals

These portals were chosen through Google, and have high Alexa Rankings, are well known, and Omega Box either has many plays on their site or many votes for ratings. The final aggregate rating will be based on the average percentages of the major portals listed.

- NewGrounds.com = 4/5 (won 4th Place Daily Trophy)
- AddictingGames.com = 71%- Kongregate.com = 3.77/5
- GameFly.com = 4/5
- Y8.com = 71%
- HallPass = 24/27 Thumbs Up
- Funny-Games.biz = 79%
- GamesButler.com = 5/5 (Featured as Game of the Day!)
- t45ol.com = 76%
- Gameslist.com = 5/5
- EbaumsWorld = 5/5
- MoFunZone = 86%
- PlayedOnline.com = 4.12/5
- GameNode.com = 8/10
- FastGames.com = 4.56/5
- BelugerinStudios.com = 4.5/5
- ArcadePreHacks.com = 4/5

FINAL RATING = 84%

Game Plays

Omega Box racked in a huge amount of plays in it’s first week of release across the web, AddictingGames bringing in the most with 550,000 + plays alone. A new record for the launch week of any of our games! NotDoppler brought in 55,000+, Funny-Games with 35,000+, ArcadePreHacks with 25,000+, MoFunZone with 20,000+, Kongregate with 18,000+, NewGrounds and FreeWorldGroup both with 10,000+ , and a hundreds of websites ranging in the 100 to 5,000 plays range. Omega Box managed to h0ld a very high 100,000+ plays per day since it’s release, tapering off to around 50,000 towards the end of the week. The massive amount of websites hosting our game (in the next section) helped contribute to our 1 million!

PLAYS ≈ 1,000,000+

Hosts

Compared to our other games, Omega Box had a whopping number of portals hosting it (according to MochiAnalytics). The top 5 hosts were:

1) AddictingGames
2) NotDoppler
3) Funny-Games
4) MoFunZone
5) Kongregate

Omega Box was able to penetrate deep, crossing language barriers in the process, and giving IronZilla alot of reach and exposure.

NUMBER OF HOSTS = 249 websites

Play Session Time

Omega Box is a progression type game, so we managed to hold the player’s attention for a good amount of time:

>5 minutes of play: 41%

>10 Minutes of play: 26%

> 30 minutes of play: 8%

AVERAGE PLAY SESSION = 14 minutes 11 seconds

Facebook Likes

This stat is an estimate of how much Omega Box was shared (“Liked”) through Facebook. AddictingGames.com has the majority of likes, racking in about 1,100, and other major portals ranged from 10-200 likes.

FACEBOOK LIKES ≈ 1,600+ likes

Demographics

Omega Box was originally designed from the ground up to appeal to the tween audience, and although they rated pretty harshly (~70%), we managed to grab the attention more of teen – adult gamers (NewGrounds, Kongregate).

The top 10 countries for Omega Box’s number of plays were:

1) United States
2) Canada
3) United Kingdom
4) Polamd
5) Netherlands
6) Australia
7) Germany
8 ) Brazil
9) Russia
10) France

Fanbase

Our fans are what motivate us to continue to forge quality games, and we thank you for all your support! Various videos have been made on Omega Box, check this one out made by SirTapTap, my personal favorite. It’s hilarious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6drUt-3mkg. I also wish I could post all the comments we found funny / inspiring, but there’s simply too many!

Alot of people especially liked the game soundtrack, be sure to check out the composers of these great works on Newgrounds to download the mp3′s: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/564193

Conclusion

We managed to attain a great amount of success with Omega Box, which in total took about 150-200 hours to complete, but as always there’s still a long way to go, and a lot more goals to achieve. IronZilla’s currently throwing a bunch of ideas around in the lab, and at the same launching side small side projects such as this one. It’s still early in the year, so stay tuned!

~ John