Alex So

Solo web game dev

Kingdom Heroes, Village Craft, Make Brainrots Online on Poki

$600 MRR 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 3k

Streaming dev on

[Alex So @afrokick]

I'm Alex, a solo indie dev building a portfolio of web games - with Poki as my main publisher - and betting on one niche: online multiplayer in the browser.

Make Brainrots Online was experiment #1. The tech stack, the CCU targets, perf optimizations - all of it is groundwork for what's next.

Follow if you care about:
- web gamedev (ThreeJS, PixiJS, BabylonJS, Bun, WebSockets)
- publishing on Poki (self publishing as well)
- solo dev building a real business

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@XiaoyangL10485 Mediacube

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YT Playables last 7 days: "We don't know what to do with your game, dude..."

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@PlaymosTeam If you don’t have players having 99% share doesn’t make sense.

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How to earn first money? Getting "Needle in a haystack" onto YouTube Playables could pay off pretty well.

Poki: ☑️
Crazy: ☑️
Playhop: ☑️
Youtube: ⏳

https://t.co/lUMNym2Abl

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@CryY666666 @grok is it possible to publish games on bilibili/wechat/taptap if you re from Europe/America?

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@MarkMFFF This summer was ok for publishing. But everything changed since September - thousands games per week, and now you should have 10mins+ playtime with d1 5%+.

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@ilkeryoldas I’m not sure about adding small/mid sizes. 1M MAU would be a good entry point.

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Almost doubled the amount of games by adding Playhop and not its ~29K !!!

Playhop is the only web platform with open IAP.

CrazyGames has IAP, but it's in closed beta and only for the specific games(15%+ D1, 15min+ playtime and midcore).

Which platform should I add next?

[✌︎ frederik ✌︎ @froessell]

12,741 browser games tracked across CrazyGames, Poki and YouTube Playables, with popularity, live player counts and which games are rising or falling.

WebGameSpy by @afrokick is useful if you're picking what to build next for web portals, or checking how a genre does before you commit.

My next game is going to CrazyGames, so this is where I'll check what works there first.

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@XiaoyangL10485 I work with a Publisher

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@TactiFiWeb3 @wavedash Unfortunately revenue metric depends on a lot of variables, so it would have low accuracy

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@SnoutUp I've been maintaining webgamespy since 2023 So it's not a new product.

I think "bad boys" won't use webgamespy, they just steal games from portals' main pages.

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Continue working only my web game analytics tool webgamespy:
- Added CCU counters to the cards.
- Fixing gaps for missing data

Check it out https://t.co/Yka7x2SmEB

PS any ideas are welcome

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1w since the last update(ads for my web games)

The budget: $440
Already spent: $181(+$70)
Earned: $270(+$40)

To optimize CPC/CPA I have to spend x2 more per week. Currently I'm spending ~$80/w.

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Day 4,5 of ads for my web games

The budget: $440
Already spent: $111(+$22)
Earned: $230(+$14)

CPA was increased a little bit(~20%), but still in good zone.

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@froessell Thank you man! Any ideas what could be improved/changed?

btw will add "raising stars" soon

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@hxtnv44 I think 10mins is a minimum. CG receives thousands games per week)

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@dextune Does it work with low poly?

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Me: making 3d MMO for Poki
Someone: publishing Tic Tac Toe with 3k CCU

Gamedev is so funny
https://t.co/9iJSGXPe55

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Live on twitch https://t.co/FCBmrdHowi Come say hi!

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@koteelok2014 @AGulev @verekia I have only 1 4k atlas, should be ok

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Just tested @verekia 's library to compress textures "on the fly". It supports webgpu/webgl2.

Download size: 3mb webp
VRAM: 64mb -> 16mb

Tested on 600 users.

gputex: https://t.co/rErZMAczqp

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@hxtnv44 “Steal an egg” gameplay

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I could watch three things forever: fire burning, water flowing, and my game's average playtime going up.

7:13 -> 8:16

- onboarding fixed(1st minute just chilling without any PVP)
- stable 60fps(was 33)
- the main texture atlas was compressed(~16mb png down to 3mb webp)

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@AGulev @verekia Will do the same, should be 20 lines of code. Thank you mate!

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@Lampogolovii Thanks. My previous prototypes(2 or 3) had <3min, so you just need to iterate faster😬