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“Dodge, Survive, Evolve.”

Enter the Omega Box, a classified weapons testing and bio engineering facility. Survive the weapons tests, evolve into stronger forms, unlock achievements, and unveil the secrets behind the Omega Box.

Omega Box was released under the licensing of AddictingGames in March 2011. One of IronZilla’s most acclaimed hits, it received 4 out of 5 on NewGrounds winning the 4th Place Daily Trophy, 3.8 out of 5 on Kongregate as well as 100,000+ plays alone on Kongregate.com, and a 4 out of 5 on JayIsGames. In it’s first week of release on the web, it received over 1,000,000 plays.

Omega Box received reviews from IndieGamesChannel, JayIsGames, Denver WestWord, and Kotaku Australia

Top 10 Browser Games of the Week by GamerzStation:

Videos from some of our fans!

Man Hunter is a shooter-hunting type game, except you don’t hunt animals – you hunt humans. Released in November 2009, it was published under the licensing of AddictingGames. It proved to be a runaway hit, launching with a 90% rating on AddictingGames.com, and garnering much fan fare across the web.

Man Hunter took 3 months from conception to sponsorship – or in total only taking about 1 full week of work, with most of the time being allocated to the drawing of all the graphic assets.

The idea was based upon the short story, The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell, in which a wealthy man owned an island, specifically for the hunting of humans. Man Hunter was even originally titled Most Dangerous Game, but due to rights and marketing concerns it was changed.

Being based on a short story read by many high schoolers at the time, the tween audience immediately noticed it. Man Hunter was tailor made for the 13-17 age demographic and it indeed reached its mark.

Welcome to version 2.0, the next level in IronZilla’s growing brand. There are many drastic changes, but changes that I believe are necesary for IronZilla’s maturation. Not only is the new website format sleeker (read: sexier), it helps put the spotlights IronZilla’s own work – the launch of IronZilla 2.0 being the precursor to our “AAA” game project in the works.

Changes

- IronZilla’s logo has been revamped (for the 3rd time, this one’s looking like a keeper)
- Flash Games are now opened in lightbox, one of the most convenient ways to view media.
- There are no longer advertisements on the site- we want you to focus on the content!
- The entire theme has been changed and edited.
- “The Basement” now houses all old posts from IronZilla 1.0 – There is now a seperate link for the Blog, which will house the categories, posts, and games, for further content.
- The “ShowCase” is our own homemade collection of games.
- About / Contact have been fused together for those who wish to drop a line and get to know IronZilla more.

Gamers

Don’t worry! I’ll make sure that high quality games from across the interwebs are showcased on the site with at least 1 new game a day. As always, I support other great developers’ works and wish to share it with you all. Game on!

Developers

As always, the latest industry news, every day. Game previews, reviews, developer interviews, postmortems – you name it. I’ll ensure that my fellow developers are fed fresh content on the daily.

So there we have it, hope you enjoy.

Feedback, criticisms, celebrations, are welcome!

- John Funtanilla

IronZilla 2.0 will be launching within the next few weeks. IronZilla as you know it will be completely revamped.

Some updates: work on Jump Hero has started again, and I’m hoping to get this one out by June. It’s a 48 hour project, and currently I’m on hour 27. The goal here is to not only see how successful a short project can be, but how much revenue it can bring in (be on the look out for a postmortem after its release!)

IronZilla’s biggest endeavor is still in the works, The Pantheon, and has a bunch of talent under it’s helm already. It’s still relatively a top secret project, but once we hit a certain goal, we’ll be releasing some teasers, concept art, and othe good stuff.

~ John

IronZilla’s next game, Jump hero, coming soon.

~ John

It’s been a goal for me since I was younger to create a game and have it reviewed by JayIsGames!

The success of Omega Box continues to pile up, and thanks to these two websites alone, the game has had a huge surge of plays today, up from the 40,000 range back up  to 100,000+.

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

Omega Box won the Daily 4th Trophy on Newgrounds with a rating of 3.94! Omega Box will be launching on Kongregate later today, hopefully it’ll have a following there as well.

Enter the Omega Box, a weapons testing facility.

Dodge hi tech weaponry, giant robots, survive, and upgrade your test subject.

Frantic dodging game at its finest.

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It’s alive! Check out our latest project, Omega Box, sponsored by AddictingGames.com. Play it Now!

Here’s some interesting stuff after the jump:

Reception from AG audience:

~70% rating with ~250,000 plays in 3 days.

Seems that most players had negative feedback about the game’s difficulty. However we greatly appealed to the hardcore player. Definitely looking to aim A LOT higher and produce even more quality games. Also hoping that it’ll be more well received from the NewGrounds and Kongregate audience.

Some comments that got our attention:

brenden24

127700 love the game its a-dict-ing-eh

duerbebe

its a fun experiance. wut do i no i am a blonde?

Yokomomochi

I freaking LOOOOOOOOOVE the music on this!! This game gets impossible after a while O.o High score of 317600

Thunderdoo5178

So awesome and hard but I beat it got nearly 80 mil and godly rank no lie!

(author: that’s an insanely godly score)

Happy New Year from IronZilla! 2010 was relatively quiet for us, but for all the good reasons. We’ve been working on a few projects behind the scenes, which should be up and running for 2011. Here’s a recap of this year’s landmarks!

Ski Runner 2 released

The sequel to our hit game Ski Runner, licensed by AddictingGames.

IronZilla Network project (BETA)

A network of websites was launched and is currently in beta. We’re looking forward to the official launch this year. Below are some logos of the websites.

Ski Runner iPhone App

AddictingGames ported Ski Runner over to the mobile platform. Check out the full version, or download the Lite version for free!

2011 Goals:

• Continue  growing as a media network and development company.
• Release 1 to 2 games a month.
• Work on more ambitious long term projects.
• Hire Artists, Developers, and Editors.
• Increase network profits. More revenue = better games!
• Get our name out there!

We’re looking forward to check this list off as the year goes by. We’d also like to give a BIG thank you to all our supporters and fans of our websites and games. You keep the motivation alive! Toast to a bright future!

IronZilla’s latest project, Omega Box, is now complete! The game took about 2.5 months to complete. My goal was to create another simple avoider type game, but one that required mastery of it’s game play in order to experience the full depth of the game. A lot of mystery surrounds the game, as you wake up as Subject 117, and are directed by an Artificial Intelligence towards the Omega Box testing facility. The rest is up to you to find out!

Check out the screens below: