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[puddinlover]

I'm a stickler when it comes to people putting their hands in my pockets.

I see various different flash micro-payment providers but the lowest percent taken from payment I could find is nonoba (they take 30%) but the minimum payment for a user is $5 which I feel will turn away some people looking to pay just $1 to advance/buy my content.

I'm new to flash game development and really have no clue what flash supports... what all languages can be used inside of a flash game?  Becuase if I could use like javascript or PHP ect... I could just build my own payment system.

So my questions are:
1) What micro-payment provided charges the least for flash?
2) What langauges can be used insides of flash that will work to contact a remote server (since my game won't be just on my site)?

Thanks guys and if I do happen to make a payment system I will be sure to share it

[John Nesky]

Flash supports ActionScript 3 natively. And arguably Haxe too. And MXML.

It sort of supports a few other languages thanks to the Adobe Alchemy project, including C/C++ and Lua.

It does not internally support php or javascript, but it can communicate with an external javascript web page and can send http messages back to a php server.

[puddinlover]

Ah, well then it sounds like a serious task to create a viable system... what do you guys recommend for in-game micro-payment providers that take a cut of 30% or less?

[weasello]

The big problem with people purchasing less than $5 worth of  at a time, is transaction fees.

It's been a while since I looked at the current rates, but providers like paypal take a minimum of 30 cents per transaction, PLUS a small percentage. If you only take $1 from your customer, that's at least 30% out of your pocket right there.

But bumping the payment to $5 - it becomes more manageable - and $10 is even better.

This is why many games have in-game "coins". $10 will buy you, say, 1000 coins - then you can have in-game items that only cost 75 coins, and players can purchase them whenever you want.

Setting up a payment gateway via flash is not difficult. What is a bit more difficult is, if you're running it yourself - you need to have your own server to track what username has how many coins, etc. etc.

[puddinlover]

Well I'm not too sure how I could be able to actually put it into flash...  I don't actionscript well enough yet I guess.

[weasello]

Well I'm not too sure how I could be able to actually put it into flash...  I don't actionscript well enough yet I guess.

It's "just as easy" as adding in portal functionality, like leaderboards and logins and such. Maybe a tad bit harder.

It really isn't too hard, but if you have no experience with it you might be better off going with something like MochiCoins.

[puddinlover]

Well I know PHP but I know VERY little about actionscript.   I think I might try the one micro-payment provider I first mentioned since they take 30% compared to mochicoins taking 40%.