First of all, I’d like to give a BIG thank you to Tom Fulp for giving me permission to make this post here on the Newgrounds BBS to share some information about the Crazy Monkey Games sponsorship program. Thanks, Tom! :)
We're always looking for more talented game developers to sponsor. If you have a game you’d like to submit for sponsorship consideration please email it to sponsor {at-nospam] crazymonkeygames.com .
CrazyMonkeyGames.com (CMG) has been around since September of 2004, and our sponsorship program has been around since March of 2005. You can read more about us here: About CMG.
To the best of my knowledge, we are the largest website (traffic-wise) of any site offering game sponsorship on the Internet today! We have the budget to offer very large sponsorships for high quality games. We also have the popularity and distribution network to put your games in front of millions of players and get your games the attention they deserve. We are well established as a quality, reputable sponsor. We’ve already sponsored many games from Newgrounds regulars over the last year, as well as many games from developers outside of the NG community.
Why are we sponsoring game developers? Well, obviously one of the reasons we’re doing this is to advertise CrazyMonkeyGames.com. Another reason is to give back to the Flash community that creates the games we love to play. We hope that by sponsoring game designers in this way they’ll be able to spend less time worrying about money and more time making great games for all of us to enjoy. Our goal is to help game designers support themselves while still being able to put out great games, keep their names in the credits, and freely distribute their games throughout the internet.
The basic rules of our sponsorship program are similar to most of the other sponsorship programs you’ve read about here: We pay you a cash sponsorship; you insert our site’s logo and link into your game and agree that it can be used on any website that wants to feature it. You can still keep your name and link in your game, and you keep the ownership rights to your game. You can read more details here if you’re interested: CMG Sponsorship info.
Our pledge is to always treat everyone professionally, fairly, and with respect. We’re very proud of the reputation our sponsorship program has earned. You can see a listing of all of the games we’ve sponsored here: CMG Sponsored Games . Most of the games there include the author’s website or email address within the game. I am confident that if you contact any of these authors to ask about us they will have nothing but good things to say about our sponsorship program. Many of them have had multiple games sponsored by CMG!
Here are some other things that set the CMG Sponsorship Program apart from the other sponsors out there:
--High score system: We have developed an advanced high score system that can be very easily integrated into any CMG-Sponsored game if the author wishes. If you’re interested in using our high score system in your game please email sponsor [–AT} crazymonkeygames.com for more details.
Our high score system is very secure (to keep out fake hacked scores) and allows players from all over the Internet to compete against each other by submitting high scores for your games. High scores can be submitted from any website that hosts your game. This means that people playing your game on Newgrounds.com, CrazyMonkeyGames.com, ArmorGames.com, Flashplayer.com, your own website, or any other website can all compete against each other for high scores!
The theme of your game’s high score page is also customizable to allow you to match the graphics and colors on your scoreboard to your game (or you can just choose to use one of our default scoreboard themes). You can see our system in action by viewing these examples of sponsored games that are using the highscore system:
Defend the North Pole (default scoreboard theme)
Nibbles (custom scoreboard theme)
Krazy Keyz (default scoreboard theme)
--Multiplayer development server: CMG operates a SmartFox multiplayer development server that is available for our sponsored developers to use free of charge. You can read more about the SmartFox Multiplayer Server technology at the Smartfox website. Accounts on our SmartFox multiplayer development server are available for any game developers who have previously been sponsored by us. Our goal with this is to provide talented Flash developers with a learning and development tool that they may not otherwise have access to. By helping you develop new skills you win, we win, and gamers all over the internet win.
We can’t give accounts out to just anyone, but any person who has proven their skills by having a game sponsored by Crazy Monkey Games is eligible for a free development account on this server to play with and learn from.
--Developer Appreciation Contests: We hold these drawings every now and then (usually around once per month) to show our appreciation for the talented developers who have allowed CMG to sponsor their games. Prizes vary, but are usually $100 for first place, $50 for second place, and a free CMG t-shirt for third. The prizes are awarded by random drawing and everyone who has had a game sponsored by CMG within the past year is eligible to win. Sure, it’s not going to make you rich, but who can complain about a free chance at $100 every month? ;)
To submit a game:
If you have a game you’d like to submit for sponsorship consideration please email it to sponsor {at-nospam] crazymonkeygames.com . We’ll evaluate your game and reply to let you know how much money we can offer you to sponsor it. There’s no obligation - You’re completely free to accept or reject the offer we make.
I’ll be happy to answer any questions either here on the forum or through email at sponsor (AT-nospam-AT} crazymonkeygames.com
Thanks,
John West
CrazyMonkeyGames.com