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Thanks for summarizing it and giving your view point on it Gwink. Bitefight and any other clone of that game by gameforge is easy to explain, spam their 50 million users base. GF gets aprox a 100-150k signup at every game they launch by sending their userbase a e-mail. If 5k of one of their games buy premium features they make serious money. If I recall correct last years gross revenue from GF was around a 120 million euro. Do consider they have a ton of games , each game released is localized and published in a different language. Some markets have been dumped over the years probably due to bad revenue... brazil I think... now 20+ games x 20+ languages with multiple virtual servers (eg bitefight s1, s2, s3, ...) so we get easy to a total above 1000 published games, assuming a avg per game of 10k revenue per month and we get at the 120 mill amount/year.

Are you able to edit the EXIF data in photoshop (not just the description) ?

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You could always wait on something MWG releases pretty soon ... howver some rules atc are in power ...

don't know if it's important but it fits to this article and is a must read (even as it's old) for every person that is serious in the browergame biz... nothing much changed actually I'm awaiting a reply from gwink on the doc ...

you forget important aspects of game building not everyone needs to be able to program or do gfx what about story lines, content writing, localization , etc ...

yes it's from 1999 yet you will feel familiar with everything said in it, and people make still the same mistakes as in '99 psst and don't forget I'm pretty long in the game related biz ...

actually this is what I got as reply  

I will ad a document (word) to this post.

I had the same problem at your age, didn't know what a hangover was till I entered univ

There is a demo/free trial available didn't look how much it costs ...

I personally believe that January the 1st should be renamed. It's the sole day in a year where the majority of the world is suffering from a hangover. So lets call it Happy Hangover Day . And why happy actually fuel for discussion also as it starts every year as bad as the previous one for most ... Why ... Waking up with a coyote who you do not know who smells like a winery. Thinking a rat comes and sleeps in your mouth every new years eve because your tongue is hairy and your mouth tastes like rat s..t. Somebody must be putting something in your drinks every year because you always seem to wake up with an upset stomach and a blaring headache. This not only happens to you but to all your friends as well. ok lets discuss and keep it if possible without bad words ... adjust your language

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It really depends, for instance if you use gameadvertisingonline (GAO) and select tribalwars to have your ads displayed you will have more FF users. Simple reason why, there are a lot of greasemonkey scripts for tribalwars hence FF needed to run those. More and more games allow greasemonkey scripts/addons for their games so it does create an influx on FF users.

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Zombie Driver - Cheat codes and hints Cheat Method This method involves editing game files, backup before doing so. In the root directory of the game you will find a folder called "Packs", in here you will find a zip file called "Pak0.zip". Open this with winrar (or any other program that reads zip files). In here you will find all the files you need to edit. Here are some edits that i found quite usefull: Make vehicles (almost) invincible: Inside the Pak0.zip go to the following directory: Scripts/Cars. Here you will find an xml file for each of the games vehicle. For example the taxi (taxi.xml). Unzip the file somewhere and open it with any text editor (like notepad). Below the file you will find the lines: <params> <health value="350"/> Change the health value from 350 to anything you want, something like 100000 would do nice. Now save the file, and put it back in the Pak0.zip You can do this for all the vehicles. Cheap upgrades: Inside the Pak0.zip go to the following directory: Scripts/GameRules and edit the file upgrade_prices.xml For example machine gun level 1 price: <item name="machinegun1" price="2000" /> Change it to 1 and the upgrade will cost 1. Weapons ammo and damage: Inside the Pak0.zip go to the following directory: Scripts/Weapons here you will find an xml file for each of the weapon of the game. To edit the rocket launcher for example open the rocket_launcher.xml. And change the following line for damage: <damage value="800" /> Change the 800 to anything you like. Mind you there are different levels of the weapon, and each level has it's own value. To change the clip size edit the following line: <clipSize value="500" />

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I've looked at lighty awhile ago, pretty impressive ipocalypse is also using lightptpd

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/me adds illigalife to the list of people to contact

been checking more data and games wise , seems that browser usage is more FF than IE probably due to the fact to be able to run scripts ... in other words greasemonkey scripts ...

just checked out tribalwars,thewest,grepolis as a reference for browser usage Advertising data 54,700,000 visits per month 1,700,000 visitors per day 1,784,000,000 impressions per month Age groups[align=left] [/align] Source: comscore inc. Browser apportionment[align=left] [/align] Source: Google Analytics