Finally Plug-in-Playable: HeyZap Makes Flash Gaming Even Easier
It’s tough to stay afloat in the ultra-competitive flash gaming market, especially when you’re up against companies like MochiMedia and Kongregate that host a collection of games, but HeyZap has managed to break away from the herd and find a niche all its own.
Instead of allocating all of their resources to game development, HeyZap founders Immad Akhund and Jude Gomila decided to try their hand at cataloging the most popular games into a simple user-friendly widget that can be plugged into any site. By easing the game-embedding process and giving users an API option that allows for seamless integration (i.e. customizable borders, size, color scheme), HeyZap is on its way to becoming the YouTube of casual gaming. But instead of being a destination site that gaming junkies would regularly visit for their daily dose, HeyZap intends for most of its visitors to access its games through other sites that have embedded its games.
Facebook pages, tweets, and blogs are just some of the venues that HeyZap is plugging into, but nonsocial networking sites like lifestyles pages and hobby sites are some of the big game that HeyZap is fishing for. Looking to increase the traffic on your site? Embedding casual flash games with HeyZap increases both the number of visitors and the amount of time they spend on your site. Many of the viral games catalogued on HeyZap include those published by big names of the industry, but that doesn’t mean that the little guy is counted out. Publishing games is just as easy for independent developers, and HeyZap cuts them in on their fair share of the profits. HeyZap’s approach toward casual gaming lets developers, both big and small, make their games more public, viral, and most importantly, profitable.
With over 30,000 games catalogued in embeddable widgets, HeyZap is uniting the thousands of flash games scattered throughout the web into a single, cleanly wrapped package, complete with instructions for dummies.
Return Wednesday, April 14th to meet the young energetic HeyZap co-founder Jude Gomila in a one-to-one interview!!
[...] After a colorful collection of “mini startups,” Jude is finally prepared for his biggest yet: HeyZap, a new site that simplifies the connection between flash games and websites. After several blurry months of hard work and nonstop coding, Jude’s newest project has got him more excited than ever. HeyZap is on his mind during every waking moment, not because he is burdened by the thought or worried about whether or not it will succeed, but because he is genuinely thrilled to have built it and excited to see where he can make it go. Jude says that more than anything, the key to success is truly believing in a product and putting everything into it, because if you can’t live and breathe it, then it’s not worth your time. Click here to read more about HeyZap: Finally Plug-in-Playable: HeyZap Makes Flash Gaming Even Easier [...]