Comments on: Gaming Site InstantAction On A Roll

By: Robin Wauters

Robin Wauters — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:04:10 +0000

That’s a very cool site too.

By: Tim Dorr

Tim Dorr — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:41:45 +0000

The thing that bothers me about iminlikewithyou is that they started out as a dating site. Now it’s a gaming site. That’s a pretty big shift in their business model. It makes me not want to visit the site because I don’t want to deal with things that are still in development and also risk getting into something that’s going to be taken away in the future. They should have just started a separate brand for the games and linked into the main site.

By: Jaymes

Jaymes — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:37:08 +0000

What only ~14% of their traffic coming from the U.S. and over 47% coming from India is that really impressive?

http://www.alex...stantaction.com

This entry stinks.

By: Games

Games — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:10:20 +0000

It’s no surprising they’ve managed to get this many visitors; especially given how much they’re spending on advertising. They have a rather extensive affiliate program, which at one point was *extremely* profitable for affiliates. If I were to attribute their success to something, it would definitely be their effective affiliate marketing efforts.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:07:33 +0000

Thanks for the kind words on Legions Dave! I just wanted to correct real quick on the last sentence (the founders of InstantAction). The game was actually made internally by the game studio at GarageGames (5 man team).

After Open Beta launched it continues to be maintained and further developed by a small team internal to GarageGames, but 3 of the original team members have left the company to help form a new studio, PushButton Labs (http://www.pushbuttonlabs.com). Some cool stuff going on there that should be announced soon.

By: Brian Sherwin @ Myartspace Blog

Brian Sherwin @ Myartspace Blog — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:42:13 +0000

Tob, looks like you are right. I went on Alexa and http://www.instantaction.com has the blunt of their traffic coming from India. So that is a good sign that they might be using pay per click services. Or they are just really popular in India.

By: Brian Sherwin @ Myartspace Blog

Brian Sherwin @ Myartspace Blog — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:38:50 +0000

Wow, Ian is going beyond the call of duty.

By: Jakob

Jakob — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:38:20 +0000

Kongregate ofcourse. badges:D

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» Instant Action Reaches 1MM Players »Make It Big In Games — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:52:22 +0000

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By: Great Sites

Great Sites — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:27:44 +0000

i actually think a marriage of offline and online is always the goal of what the new age of the WWW is aiming to be and love the idea that this site and the games are heading.
And now that its free oh yea.

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Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:22:38 +0000

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By: Ian Tornay

Ian Tornay — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:31:04 +0000

Sorry you’re having trouble!

Make sure to contact:

Support@instantaction.com

I would love to personally help you get back on track

Ian Tornay – Customer Service

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:29:07 +0000

There’s a big difference between flash games and 3-d games.

There’s also a cost.. The games take a bit longer to load, but the graphics are certainly much better than simple flash.

I just played Rokkitball… silly name, but damn that was fun.

By: Roman

Roman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:10:52 +0000

My site http://www.cafe.com also covered by techcrunch at the same time than instant action, is also working very well in terms of traffic and user engagement, both on cafe.com as on facebook.
Our demo is mainly Active Women. The quality games we have are very popular, like Temple Of Mahjong, already played million times!

Try it: http://www.cafe.com

Have fun

By: Joey Mucha

Joey Mucha — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:02:41 +0000

Garage Games has a great team and I have heard them speak in the past. They were very excited to launch instant action a while back and now very glad to see they are thriving.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:50:57 +0000

I usually play on http://www.cafe.com … i like it because of my ability to play quick games at work and not having to register to play the games.

By: Basar

Basar — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:47:41 +0000

How would playing a game on this site affect my laptop’s battery on the road with 3G?

By: John D.

John D. — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:44:26 +0000

I think the surge in traffic is due to IAC buying lots of banner ads. If you look at their Alexa history, which goes back farther and has more detail, you see they have big spikes and big drops. That corresponds to ad campaigns and low retention. The retention problem is probably largely due to having to do a huge plugin download. (http://www.alex...stantaction.com)

If you actually manage to get into the game lobby you can see that their are typically 500-800 people playing at any given time. Not a big audience compared with other online game services – they are also about 90% on one game – Legions. It’s a really good game – a descendent of Tribes 2, made by the founders of Instant Action.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:29:03 +0000

Ironrealms.com – They’re text MUDs, which will put most people off at first, but my god are they incredible once you get past the textyness. I’ve never played an MMO that even comes close to the depth and richness of their worlds.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:23:20 +0000

http://www.iminlikewithyou.com is the site. multiplayer, beautifully designed and highly addictive. the little site that could.

By: gamer

gamer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:15:00 +0000

Impressive growth indeed.

What’s the revenue model, now that gaming is free?

By: Paul Wade

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:42:59 +0000

I’ll have to check it out when I get some time.

By: Damion Flynn

Damion Flynn — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:03:20 +0000

Never heard of it and must have missed the original write-up. My fav game sites are: Zodoo.com - cheesy little site but fun. Pogo.com - I play on Wednesday and sometimes Thursday when new badges come out...

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:38:39 +0000

I frequented the site when it was in beta/free and stopped when they tried to charge.

I don’t agree with saying the browser isn’t the place for 3D games, if you tried any of them you’d see how well they were created and run.

They aren’t meant to be full title games but a cross between them and 5 minute flash games. I for one think they’ve done a fantastic job however they should move to a “virtual goods” type economy to monetize.

I’ll be logging back on the next time I have 10-15 minutes to kill.

By: Tob

Tob — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:11:53 +0000

The only reason they got to 1mm is because they’re paying for them – this is IAC we’re talking about… remember MyFunCards?