FlashDen Review
FlashDen is a site which allows you to buy and sell flash products. As a developer you can upload your flashes and sell them to potential customers for a set price. You can upload a variety of products, ranging from animations and games to preloaders and buttons. It’s pretty simple to join, just fill out a few quick forms and you are on your way to selling flash components.
Once you’ve become an author, you can start uploading immediately. The staff will review your uploaded flash and set a price for it as well as place it into it’s respective category on the site. Prices can range anywhere from $1 to $40 per sale.
There is a revenue share of 25% for your flash, however if you make your flash exclusively for sale on FlashDen, that revenue share will jump to 40%. The more files you sell, the higher your revenue share goes. The revenue share maxes out at a nice and high 70%.
Selling flashes isn’t the only thing you can do on there though. It’s also a great place to look for quick graphics or components to use in your games. You can pick up some nifty looking characters and backgrounds to populate your games for around 1-4 dollars apiece.
You can even buy the source code to flash games on here in the $10 range. It’s a good place to look if you want to learn how to do something, or are looking for a quick game to promote your site. As a developer I can’t say I would recommend selling your source code for such a low price, but if you don’t mind giving up your source code it’s a decent way to monetise more from your game.
If you haven’t already, check out FlashDen to see if it can help you make money off of your otherwise dorment game assets. Maybe you’ll even pick up a few nice assets to use in your game.
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May 7th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
FLASHDEN is a scam, they will take peoples money even if the program sold works or not… so it has me thinking that if they screw the clients, they probably do it royally with the programmers.
I would recommend going to other companies if I were you… ihave bought also from flashcomponents.net and they do backup there description of the programs so it may be a better choice
May 7th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Thanks David. I’ll have to give that site a look.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
FlashDen is awesome! I have only once had a problem with an item (out of the hundreds I have purchased) and I was able to get a prompt refund. Definatly give it a go :)
July 13th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Agreed Gregory. FlashDen seems to appreciate their developer community, helping them by sponsoring contests and making a good looking site. Glad to hear they’ve been working out for you.
June 28th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
flashcomponents.net is not much better. they are sitting in Romania and they are scam/fraudsters too. The latest trick is to mark certain purchases as a “fraud”. So they actually can keep all the money themselves and have not to pay the developer a single penny. I lost over 600 Dollars in only 2 months, sold products over products, got not paid at all – merely had all the work with developing and support around the clock…
by the way: they usually earn more than 50 – 60 percent of the price of a product always treating you as a “working bastard”, who’s products have to be “approved” (even if they obviously have no clue what all that stuff is all about). Finally they even act as fraudsters and rip off most of your money with tricky fakes (like the “fraud” fake). Finally you are working day and night for nothing.
Tip: Boycott these “companies” and build up your own portal with proper payment system. Hopefully there will come up someone to build a really fair commercial community portal for flash components and freelancers very soon! The developer minimally should have 80 percent of the money for his hard work of development and support. This way the products also can get much cheaper for the customers.