Andy Moore has written a very interesting article about how his Flash game, Steam Birds, has made over $34,000.

Almost a year ago, Dan Cook (who happens to have done all the art for Steam Birds) wrote a couple of articles about the possibility of making a living off Flash games. I called it a pipe dream, because I’d looked into the possibility of making a living off Flash games a few years earlier, and had come up empty-handed. So I pursued other things, like Xbox Live Indie Games, and sticking with my day job.

Last month, a friend of mine made a cool little Flash game, and sold it to a flash portal for almost twice as much as In the Pit has made in the year and a half it’s been on Xbox Live Indie Games. That totally amazed me, and convinced me that going back to making Flash games would be a more worthwhile pursuit than making Xbox Live Indie Games, but it certainly wasn’t a “quit your day job” amount of money.

$34,000, however, is more than I make in a year (before taxes). I realize that Moore is splitting those profits with his co-creators, but his take ($15,000) is certainly enough to get me off my ass and get me to finish up the pile of mostly-finished Flash games that I abandoned once I concluded that “there’s no money in Flash games”.

Thanks for being right, Dan!

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