So...I promissed to write a post about the reasoning behind the flash games portal. Here is it:

You see what I did here?. If you do you are awesome ;)

Even though right now I'm on the verge of launching my first flash game, my "global" plan involves launching A LOT more. Obviously I'm thinking about getting some kind of sponsorship for my games. But being as much of a perfectionist as I am, I really don't think that my first games will be "sponsorship worthy"...so, right now sponsorship is not an option.

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Surely you don't know about this, but one of my favorite games of all time is Starcraft, right now I'm a Zerg Starcraft 2 player (HELL yeah! zerg rush kekeke). Starcraft is a strategy game (you don't say o_O) and a lot of the initial game plan relies on building structures. 

Usually it's important to try to make your build order in a way that every building helps you to accomplish something specific, and IF a building helps you to accomplish more than one thing you will surely get an advantage over your opponent.
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With the "starcraft 2 build order strategy" in mind I begun to ask myself  "What can I do with this flash game so that launching the game helps me to accomplish MORE than just launching a simple flash game".

It's clear that I'm not the  first one to think that it is a valid strategy to create a flash portal (even with the monsters that are out there like kongregate) and that coupling your flash portal with flash games is a great strategy. And just like that...my flash arcade idea was born. BUT! am I doing this JUST because there are two random guys over the internet doing the same?....well maybe...I mean NO U_U. I'm different, keep reading to know why ;)
I actually HAVE experience creating and running a "mildly successful" flash portal. After templo de zelda I started making some other sites (although not with as much "love" as with templo de zelda...but that a story  for another time), one of them was a flash portal called juegos.com.sv  (yep, the portal was in spanish), here is a pic :

That was juegos.com.sv in all it's glory :D

To tell you the truth I would still be working in juegos.com.sv....U_U but I had a ""problem"" with the """""co-owner"""" of the site and we (mostly I) decided to shut the site down. But it was a really  good site, it generated enough money to pay the hosting bills AND also to buy a few Gamecube games now and then . Also I really had BIG plans for the site.

The site started as nothing more than a generic arcade script (AV Arcade I think) but after a few months I wanted to do some things than weren't supported by the script and I decided to "dive" into the code (After all that's what I'm a programmer right ;) not just the chicks n_O) and I ended with a custom made (by myself for myself) site.

I worked in juegos.com.sv more than 2 years and that was 2 years ago (give  or take). I am REALLY a better developer now than I was back then. Making "again" a flash portal really didn't seem a daunting task to me. I already have some experience and  I already have plans and ideas that I could (and will) use.

To sum it up (finally...right?), why I'm making a flash portal?

1. I will earn (at least a little) more money by launching flash games and having a portal to back them up rather than just launching flash games.
2. I can use the portal later to promote my flash games or to test them (with the help of my kind visitors :))
3. It really isn't something extremely hard for me to do. In fact the "first release" is almost done.
4. It's really  fun :D I love programming, I love flash, I love games :D I love flash games :D

Aaaand, that's it. Surprised by the long post? Well now that some of my projects are ready to be released I can start writing more. I'll be writing regularly from now on. At least until all my projects are again in a "top secret" phase. :D