At the beginning of April, 2010 those who deal with affiliate sales of casual games have got unpleasant news. The point is that Reflexive stops its game publication business and put an end to Game Center Solution Affiliate Program as a result.

Still, This Affiliate Program is going to work at its customary mode for three month. However, on June 30, 2010 all sales by the means of GameCenterSolution will be stopped and this games affiliate program will stop its being. According to the message by Reflexive, the studio plans to direct all its forces on game development.

When the affiliate program closes, you will be able to use its control panel, account, etc. for month. Up to June 31, 2010 all affiliates will get their last commissions! That is end!

Between now and June 30, 2010, the Game Center Solution Affiliate Program will continue its business as usual. We will continue to provide web service and support and pay referral fees on every qualified sale through June 30, 2010. We will stop processing sales after that date and our agreement with you governing the Game Center Solution Affiliate Program will terminate on June 30, 2010

In this connection from the Zamango base of casual games will be removed:

• 547 games for PC,
• 90 games for MacOS.

There will be remove only exclusive games that were spread by GameCenterSolution and were not available on other English affiliate programs (Alawar, BigFishGames). This removal will be done as soon as Reflexive closes.

That is pity to say goodbye to such a good affiliate program that provided us not only with a long list of PC and Mac games but its quite high quality conversion let earn its affiliates. We hope there will be a new fine game affiliate program which will take good position on casual game market.

Technology of working with widget is easy:

1) You choose the size of image: 160×200, 160×600 or 728×90,

2) Choose the platform: PC or Mac,

3) Get HTML-code that can be embedded into your web site.

You can test widget Featured Deal at the affiliate’s board: Sales Tools>Widgets.

This tool simplifies the work for all affiliates, since there is no need to invent your own banners, create new pages on your site with special offer. You are to paste the embed code into your site.

The other advantage of Featured Deal is that you cannot trouble about the banner removal because of lapse anymore. Widget reloads by himself, therefore your users will see only fresh information about sales promotion and special offers.

You can try this widget by now as all affiliates are able to use new bundle – Cake Mania Mega-Pac:

Games: Cake Mania, Cake Mania 2, Cake Mania 3, Cake Mania: Back to the Bakery, Cake Mania Main Street.

Platform: only РС.

Effective period: to 3d of January, 2010.

Price: 19.95 USD (saving 39%).

Those who does not want to use new widget and prefer to customize everything as they like, the information about bundles is still available at Sales Tools>Bundle Info & Links section.

On 4^th of  January, 2010 on Reflexive affiliate program will be available new special offer from Hipsoft.

FreeGamesYard.com is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Russian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar, GameBoss, TurboGames .

AllGames4me.com is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in English on the base of such affiliate programs as BigFishGames, Alawar.

LikeFreeGames.com is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in German on the base of such affiliate program as BigFishGames, Alawar.

JustGameZone.com is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in French on the base of such affiliate program as BigFishGames, Alawar.

EnespanolJuegos.com is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Spanish on the base of such affiliate program as BigFishGames, Alawar.

JapaneseGamesForFree is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Japanese on the base of such affiliate program as BigFishGames, Alawar.

PobierzGry is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Polish on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

GiocoScaricare is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Italian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar, BigFishGames.

LaddanerSpel is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Swedish on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar, BigFishGames.

DownloaddoJogo is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Portuguese on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar, BigFishGames.

TryCoolGames is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Hebrew on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

Download-Joc is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Romanian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

AllChineseGames is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Chinese on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

Zkustehry is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Czech on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

GamesInEstonian is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Estonian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

HungarianGames is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Hungarian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

Cobagame is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Indonesian on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

GamesInKorean is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Korean on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar.

GratisDownloadSpel is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Dutch on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar and BigFishGames.

Eniyoyunoynamak is an example of the site that is using plugin Z.M.E, containing the games in Turkish on the base of such affiliate programs as Alawar .

Registration in BigFishGames affiliate program

Link to the registration page

You are to fill in this form.

1. Email – your e-mail address. It is possible to use up to 88 symbols. Then it will be used as your login for admission on a site. Later you are able to change your e-mail

2. Password – the key word, from five to twelve symbols.

3. Re-type Password – repeat your key word.

4. Username – your symbolic name, from 4 to 16 symbols, only letters, figures and underscore are allowed. Username is your ident on the forum and is reflected at personal profile. You may choose any name as you like but remember that it is given forever and cannot be changed.

All four fields are compulsory for filling in. Your information is covered by BigFishGames Privacy Policy, which you can see in English.

The system of accounts on BigFishGames is united, i.e. you may use your account only once to enter into personal profile, forum or site.

By the way to get the content on different languages (English, German, French, Spanish or Japanese), it is possible to sign in once and the whole content will be available for you.

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Registration in Reflexive affiliate program (GameCenterSolution)

Link to the registration page

1. Legal name of Entity – official title of the organization.

2. Site URL – address of the site.

3. Contact name – name of the person to connect with. It is not very important  as it is need for correspondence or persoanl profile only.

4. Email – address of your e-mail, its domain should be identical to the domain of the pointed site.

5. Mailing Address – net address: street, flat, office.

6. City – city, where the organisation is situated.

7. State – state, only for the USA. For other countries choose – Not Applicable.

8. Province – province (or other unite of administrative division), optional.

9. Postal Code – Zip Code.

10. Country – country, where the organisation is situated.

11. Phone – telephone number of the organisation with the code of country and city that allows to connect with you.

12. Fax – fax numder of the organisation with the code of country and city, it is optional.

It is important to tick off that you read  the Affiliate Agreement and agree to all terms therein.

The password of your account and other instructions will be sent to your referenced e-mail.

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Registration in Alawar affiliate program

First of all you should choose the language of your resource and the language of the games there. Alawar offers affiliate programs on Russian, English and Polish. But you have to login each of them as they are all independent.

Registration in Russian Alawar  affiliate program

Link to the registration page

You should fill in this very short form to login on Russian affiliate.

1. Адрес сайта. Site address. In the capacity of a site’s address you should point the resource where you are going to place the games from the affiliate program. The referenced address of your site will be used as a login for the entrance in personal profile. Form www.yoursite.ru

2. E-mail – address of your e-mail. After registration some other instructions will be sent to the referenced e-mail.

3. In the last field you should put the symbols that you see at the picture.

All fields are compulsory.

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Registration in Polish Alawar affiliate program

Link to the registration page

As you see the form of registration on Polish affiliate program is the same as Russian.

1. Adres witryny – site’s address where you are going to place the games from Alawar affiliate program. It is used as a login for the entrance in personal profile. Form www.yoursite.ru

2. E-mail – address of your e-mail.

3. Przepisz kod z obrazka – put the symbols from the picture.

All fields are compulsory.

The form of registration and interface on English Alawar affiliate program are differ from Polish and Russian.

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Registration in English Alawar affiliate program

Link to the registration page

1. Login – login, which let you join the system.

2. Password – key word, minimum of 6 symbols in length. Only letters, numbers are allowed.

3. Retype password – repeat your key word.

If you leave these very fields сlear, they will be created in automatically and sent to your e-mail.

4. Company Name – name of the company, it is optional.

5. Site Address – site’s address where you are going to place the games from this affiliate program.

6. Email – address of your e-mail.

7. Phone Number – telephone number to connect with you, but it is optional.

8. Enter this symbols – enter the symbols, which you see at the picture.

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Registration in GameBoss affiliate program

Link to the registration page

1. Логин -  login for the entrance to a personal profile, from 4 to 10 characters.

2. Пароль – password, from 4 to 10 characters.

3. Имя – name, optional.

4. ICQ – numder of ICQ to connect with you.

5. Адреса сайтов, site address where you are going to place the games from GameBoss.

6. Тип оплаты – payment type, which is more convenient to you to get affiliate fees.

7. WMZ – your dollar cash on WebMoney,optional.

8. Минимальная выплата – minimum payment, choose a sum of minimum payment in dollars: 5, 10, 25, 50 or 100, optional.

9. Код – code, enter a code of a picture.

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Registration in TurboGames affiliate program

Link to the registration page

All fields are compulsory.

1. ФИО – your name, surname and patronymic name.

2. E-Mail – your e-mail address.

3. Пароль. Password.

4. Повтори пароль. Retype your password.

5. Адрес сайта – site’s address where you are going to place the games from affiliate program.

6. Введите код – enter a code, symbols from the picture.

When you fill in the form it will be moderated, and the confirmation of your registration will be sent to the referenced e-mail.

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Registration in IGROMoney affiliate program

Link to the registration page

All field are compulsory.

1. Ваш логин, your login that you will use to the entrance to the personal profile. From 4 to 10 characters in length. Only letters and numbers are allowed.

2. Ваш E-mail – your e-mail address.

3. Фамилия – surname, from 2 to 20 characters, Cyrillic alphabet.

4. Имя – name, from 2 to 20 characters, Cyrillic alphabet.

5. Отчество – patronymic name, from 2 to 20 characters, Cyrillic alphabet.

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Within the framework of using service Zamango, it is available such casual games from the following affiliate programs*:

*At the table you can see total amount of the games from affiliate programs that are available on certain language. The figures of green color in brackets show the amount of exclusive games, which you do not find at other affiliate programs of this language. The results are true on 19 November, 2009.

Zamango’s base of casual games includes not only games for Windows PC, but also for MacOS as well. Today Mac games available only on the English language at such affiliate programs as BigFishGames and Reflexive. Total amount of casual games for Mackintosh platform are:

Besides to our base we are going to add so-called Strategy Guides, the manuals for gameplay, which are available only on BigFishGames.

Every day we work in order to give you full information about the games:

• reviews
• screenshots
• preview screenshots
• icons 50×50, 100×100,140×140
• system requirements
• list of related games
• download links

All graphical sources, collected on different affiliate programs, are standardized and have identical size for all games. Besides all pictures, icons, screenshots are localized and presented on chosen language, i.e. one and the same game has got different sets of pictures both for English and Russian. Certainly this fact has positive influence on customer decision to buy this or that game.

As for game descriptions, we are going to give you a chance of making original descriptions for each created channel. Also we would like to place different banners, link to buy game, videoshots, reviews and previews. So collaboration with us is a great pleasure as we always try to move with the times.

This article is for those who have chosen the way of a content receiving and have the favorite game project started. Now you have a new task: how to receive statistics, analyse it and make a decision on increase of game sales from your resource. The Reflexive program’s control panel is unlikely the best example of report among all the other partner programs. Here you can find any necessary information.

Well, the following types of reports are available for a partner:

1. Affiliate Sales Totals. Gives the information about final quantity of sales in the context of channels (for those who have many game projects on one affiliate account).
2. Affiliate Sales History. More detailed sales report with the possibility to see all kinds of datas, for example, game title, country name, IP address, purchaser’s emails, etc.
3. Affiliate Downloads. Gives statistics about game downloads in the context of channels.
4. Earning Totals. Report about general earnings amount during fixed period.
5. Earning History. Complete report about earnings and payments.

Each report has a huge number of different parameters:

• Date Range: selection of statistics period
• Distribution Channel(s): selection of one, several or all sales channels
• Game(s): data revision on all games or concrete one
• Platform:  platform choice (PC/MAC)
• Total by: selection of a report parameter: by days, weeks, games, channels, etc
• Data Columns: selection of data columns
• Sort by: selection of a sort field or sort mode (ascending / descending)
• Graph(s): selection of fields you want to make a graph for.

After you have you report parameters set up, you can use the feature of the custom report save (custom report). The saved report standard appears in the control panel, and you can receive it by simple stroke of the mouse button without recurring parameter selection.

Any report can be saved in XML or CSV format for possible processing or visualisation of the received statistics by other means. Moreover, if you don’t want to enter the control panel every time when you need to view statistics, you can see a saved custom report via a link in Reports>Download (to do it  you should  insert  you IP address in the list of authorized addresses in Accounts>My user>Authorized IP Addresses).

One of the most interesting features in GameCenterSolution’s report system is the possibility to receive buyers’ e-mails for the further work with them. The list of e-mail addresses is available in the report Affiliate Sales History, as well as in Order Feed (Sales Tools>Order XML Feed). It allows to work more effectively, offering them another games that are similar to those they have already bought. The only problem with it is that not all buyers allow to display their e-mails and receive new information. Nevertheless, after reaching the certain number of buyers, availability of their e-mails turns to be a serious help for increasing the sales.

In the GameCenterSolution’s affiliate panel you can find a huge number of content tools (Sales Tools>Channels). In the previous article on Reflexive’s program we have already wrote about banners, Store Fronte, XML feed and iFrames. Here we could draw attention to the other features. First, you can find all necessary information about any game: buy link, download link, all descriptions, images, etc in the chapter Game Info & Links. Secondly, in Game Filters you can find a unique feature of game filters that you will find in no other casual games affiliate programs. You can easily select games to display on you site and games to blacklist:

There is another important feature of Reflexive’s partner program – content brending. You need only to load three images with your logo (Sales Tools>Channels>Brending Images) and they will be integrated in all games distributions. Moreover, loaded images serve for brending of game purchase’s page and support service’s page. In other words, if you don’t want to create a support page, you can use the page offered by the affiliate program. You can find the link to this page and its settings in Support.

After you have started the channel of sales and have sold necessary number of games, there is a question – how to receive your earnings? Times when GameCenterSolution gave possibility of getting money only with the help of check have sunk into oblivion. Now there is an opportunity to choose from 4 accessible ways of obtaining:

• payment via ACH (Automated Clearing House, the USA clearing system) – it is quickly and reliable, but it is necessary to have an account in the USA, and that is problematic enough for individuals who are not USA residents.
• payment by check. You must have the post address and patience before you can cash it.
• payment via PayPal. Your email at GameCenterSolution must coincided with contact one in PayPal account.
• bank remittance (Wire Transfert). One of the most simple and fast ways, you must have the bank account, and also know its requisites.

To receive money through bank remittance you must fill in a small form in control panel. The data can be specified in the bank where you opened the account.

GameCenterSolution will withdraw 20$ from your earned means for bank remittance and 5$ for check sending. The minimal sum which you can bring equals 100$.

Now you have the necessary knowledge to start working with the GameCenterSolution affiliate program. Good luck!

Now they offer the bundle of 10 games “10 Game Bundle” to all participants of the affiliate program at unique low price – $29.99

The collection includes 10 following games:

• Airport Mania: First Flight (1079)
• Big Kahuna Reef 2 (503)
• Ricochet Lost Worlds (96)
• Mosaic: Tomb of Mystery (492)
• A Fairy Tale (1355)
• Sprouts Adventure (1384)
• Build in Time (1131)
• The Great Tree (1007)
• Monarch: The Butterfly King (755)
• Costume Chaos (1283)

The collection is accessible both for Windows PC, and for MacOS. The offer is valid till November, 30th 2009.

More detailed information about “10 Game Bundle”, links to purchase, various promo-banners can be found in GameCenterSolution panel. Description for this collection is not provided, you should write it for the users yourself, the link to downloading also cannot be found, it will be accessible for user after payment. Banners of 5 various sizes are offered to partners, choose the one which suits you and place it on pages of your resource to inform your users about the given offer. You receive 10.5 USD from each bundle sold.

The first and the most important innovation concerns the calculation of payments to affiliates. Now partners receive 40 % of  so-called NetRevenues, i.e. of the total profit from games sales minus various expenses for transactions, hosting, etc. But since November, 1st, 2009 Reflexive partners will receive 35 % of the total profit (Gross Revenues) from games sales. The percentage rate was weakened, but, as Reflexive representatives stated, it was made in favor of partners, as aftertax earnings, instead of NetRevenue, reduced by various exemptions, would be basic. There is simple arithmetic:

These figures are approximate. If you have been participating in Reflexive affiliate program for some time already, you can replace them with your data and compare.

At first sight it seems that partners will be earning more, but whether it will be so or not the time will show.

Also Reflexive affiliate program promises to give more special offers (bundles and promotional items), for example, Double Play: Nanny Mania 2 and Babysitting Mania or Double Play: Jewel Quest 2 and 3, the partners’ commission from their selling will be higher, besides they are adequately purchased by users.

And the last update: Reflexive is going to sign a contract on cooperation with the major casual games publishers. So such bestsellers as Assassins Creed, Disciples, and the series of games about Nancy Drew will be added to the base, and it will help to attract more users to your website, to sell more games and to receive more money.

So all these innovations in Reflexive affiliate program are made to increase affiliates’ earnings, that is why if you haven’t joined this partner program yet and haven’t started to sell casual games, we recommend you to do this in the nearest future; and Zamango  Money Extractor plugin will considerably facilitate this process.