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GameBulge v2 - Sneak Peak
We have been shedding sweat and tears for the past four days straight. I have been sitting at my desk and coding for up to 5-6 hours at a time without taking a break. Why? Because we’re getting ready to launch GameBulge v2 - Beta.
First, some introduction to GameBulge and the first release.
When we first put up GameBulge, we decided that we didn’t want to put too much time into it. We just wanted to test the waters, see how viral the market is and then move on to a better version if we were successful. It took me about 2 full days of coding and database work to get it running smoothly. Then we went ahead, did some small promoting and testing.
Good thing, we were successful. We’ve been averaging about 1,500-2,000 unique visitors per day and a ton of Google traffic (and 3-4 front page Google search results for certain games). That’s when we knew we could make it larger, that’s when the desire, the fire, the urge to make it better came about.
The process of GameBulge v2.
When we were thinking about the re-design, we really didn’t have anything in mind. We just wanted it to be simple, easy and look good. We also came up with another idea. We can have games (flash games) but why can’t we also integrate hand-picked videos from YouTube, Break and CollegeHumor and such?
So we decided to add a video section. So now not only will it be games, it’ll be videos as well (hopefully in the future sometime we can make it user-submitted).
One other big overhaul was that we added a user system. You can now register and have your own profile. Doing this, we can offer special contests, incentive and keep stats on each player/video viewer. (These items are still in progress).
It would be great to hear ideas from the readers! If you have any cool ideas that we could implement, please let us know. We want to improve GameBulge and make it the premier spot for web games and videos, so let us know what you want.
OK, OK, Let me see it now!
Well, here you go, an exclusive link to GameBulge v2.
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(On Sep 7th, 2007 at 7:25 pm)
wow looks great!
A couple questions - just cause i love to delve into the details of things.
What do you attribute the HUGE spike at the beginning of august to (alexa graph here http://www.gamebulge.com/v2/advertise/)
Where do you get the flash games from? Do you have to pay to buy them and use them or are they freeware with free distribution rights?
(On Sep 7th, 2007 at 1:55 am)
simple, when you first launch a site, any amount of hits will do this, alexa looks at %. so first day they may have 100 hits and it climbs to 1,000 in the week after. alexa looks at this as huge and thus the chart
(On Sep 7th, 2007 at 4:56 pm)
Looks good for a beta. I’ll keep checking it for updates.