Newsletter 97

You’d be very surprised to know that a niche, hardcore trivia site gets six-digit traffic with zero marketing and living completely through word of mouth.

It goes to show that any game, as long as it’s made with real passion and interest, will naturally draw people in and eventually spread and create its own community.

Interestingly, this is a side project turned into a legacy for a late friend. And now this legacy carries on beyond the words and trivia quizzes he painstakingly crafted.

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“I tend to work on QuizWise during bursts of passion, moments when I really want to implement something,” says the co-creator of a hardcore trivia quiz site.

Niche projects will always have a specific group to target, as proven by this other game that, while relatively young as a website, gets 35,000~ Math-loving regulars every month.

All side projects need some kind of fuel, and passion can only take you so far without resources propelling it. When it comes to monetizing passion project games, are ads bad?

Regardless if ads are bad or not, there’s no denying that everybody wants to get passive income. And what’s better than earning money while you sleep?

For last week’s trivia, the answer is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial! Almost everybody got it, congrats! E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is considered one of the worst video games ever made due to a multitude of problems, with rushed development being one of the root causes that led to other issues like poor graphics and bad gameplay.

Let’s start with this week’s question:

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That’s all for this week. See you next Friday!

The Hey, Good Game Team