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Flash Mindmeld

60 experts. 60 seconds each. 60 tips for being successful in the flash game market.

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Jim Greer

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Jim Greer

Kongregate

Jim is the co-founder and CEO of Kongregate, and is responsible for the company's vision of community around games, its focus on game developers, and most importantly its ability to identify and retain great talent. Jim is a regular committer to Kongregate's codebase, and developed many of the customer support and fraud screening tools. Before founding Kongregate, he was Technical Director for Pogo at EA and led the web and game engineering teams. He has worked in the game industry since 1991, when he went from summer intern to leading the game world design team on Ultima VII. Despite his boss Richard Garriott's advice, he finished his computer science degree at Princeton University before returning to the game industry.

Flash Game Tip #61

Make a game or two a day and throw them all away until you find one that you spend four hours with some new idea and you are just like, wow, this is really fun, I want to keep playing this, so I have to make it.

Flash Game Tip #102

Be both prolific and ruthless in the idea-generation stage and really hard on yourself and your game in the polished stage. Get lots of people to play it. Let newbie users play it. Let hardcore users play it.

Hear Jim's tip on what makes a great flash game!

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