XlanderSoftware

Wow it is half way through October, I have been pretty busy
Here is my late September postmortem.

September Goals
Gain +1 feed burner readers
Status: Failed
My feed count has spiked up to one every now and then but they are all just bots from the data I have on them. To counter this I should write some useful blog posts about Flash that people actually want to read. I think some Flash game tutorials would be a good idea once I have some more Flash programming experience under my belt.

100 blog views
Status: Success
For September I had about 194 pageviews and 90 unique visitors.
Not massive numbers but it is a start and I achieved my goal.

Brainstorm at least 3 game ideas and place them into my ideas vault
Status: Failed
I brainstormed a lot of ideas, how ever only two of these ideas made it to the ideas vault.
A lot of the ideas I have are way beyond my current Flash skill level and the amount of spare time I have to work with thus I am unsure about posting them up here as the chance of these massive game ideas ever becoming a reality is close to zero. On the other hand it would give me a large pool of ideas to trawl through later that I could try to pull smaller snippets of stuff from to make a game that is within reach of completion.

Find some good online game programming communities and tutorials
Status: Success
I have been trawling the internet and have found quite a few useful tid bits here and there.

Design and complete 1 Flash game
Status: Success
TankRush was my first complete Flash game. While it is technically a game with a start, middle and end it is very, very rough. Still it is a start

Earnings for September
For September I had one revenue stream for one Flash game.
Using Mochi Ads I managed to earn $0.27 USD
This is ~0.13% of the grand total of $200 a month I want to earn.
Once I get some more data I think I will build a graph to chart how my earnings are panning out versus the target I want to hit.

Conculsion
September was ok, I hit 3/5 goals, earnt a tiny amount of money and learnt some new things.
Time to review and build on this for October.