I haven’t given an update on SpudMud for a long time now so I guess that now is a good a time as any with the 75th video released.

I never knew that it would actually be a challenge to find good games/ videos / animations and pictures for SpudMud After countless hours of browsing the web for good quality media we now have 196 games, 264 pictures, 75 videos and 16 animations.

My personal favorites:

Pictures:

This is going to seriously hurt on landing!

Games:

Great puzzle game that has swept my office

Animations:

A truly touching animation of a kid who lost her father in 9/11.

Videos:

How the hell did I miss that!

Ill keep this short and sweet.

Adsense: $216.00

Intergi:  $218.56

Total:  $434.56

I have been looking for a good CPM ad network for SpudMud and I stumbled across Intergi over at Talk arcades. The main thing that caught my attention was the nice and high CPM of around $2.00 - $3.00 for some ads which is a lot more than my current eCPM of $0.60 - $1.00 from Adsense. So I have just submitted my application to them and lets hope that I get accepted so I can post some further feedback later on.

 EDIT  21/01/2007

Got accepted into the program and have placed the ads codes on my SpudMud. Did have a few small problems at first but they support was very good and fixed all issues fast.

EDIT 31/01/2007

I am almost speechless about how good Intergi’s CPM is, making $231.97 in 8 days is simply amazing for me, way better than I ever expected and as you can see this doesn’t include the revenue from Adsense which accounts for over half of the impressions and that averaged around $3-$8 a day. The only problem with them that I see is the Net45 payment method so I have to wait for the 15th march before I get paid but they do pay by PayPal which is great.

I have been waiting for this moment for quite some time now and now it is here, the Christmas holidays… I ahve been waiting for this holiday for quite some time because my University don’t have half term like Sixth Form/High School so we only have 2 breaks, Christmas and Easter. The only bonus is that they are both a month long so that’s quite nice apart from that fact that when I return Ill probably have forgotten everything that I have learnt that semester and get chucked straight into exams. But who cares, its a whole month off

Ok I better stop with the boring bit to do with my life and get back onto what this blog is about. Over Christmas I am hoping to get some work done with the new design of SpudMud , I have already gotton a designer to do me a new design and now that that is finnished and coded (by me) I am slowely brining it to life. You can have a look at how the development is going over at beta.spudmud.com. I have still got a lot of work to do i.e. finishing off the games, video and pictures sections as well as trying to make all of the code valid (not sure why I want it to be XHTML valid but I just do).

I better write a bit about the designer now that you have seen the great job he did with the design. I found Ed’s site over at the DP forums and immediately contacted him to ask for a quote after seeing his great portfolio. The quote he gave my shocked me at first, it just seemed to low (I wont mention any values), but I shouldn’t complain should I. His work was done in about 1 and a half weeks which I was quite happy with considering it was 5 pages fully custom designed. He was great at communicating and always kept me updated. The thing that I was really amazed about was the way he could understand what I wanted because as you probably can see from this blog, I am not the best at getting things across.

I am hoping to get the new design up and running by Christmas but I think that that’s very unlikely because I’m simply too lazy at the moment due to Uni taking everything out of me and I have coursework and exams to revise for.