--- title: 'How to Make Money With Game Development - Using GDevelop' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=zY5kv50XNnE' video_id: 'zY5kv50XNnE' date: 2026-07-15 duration_sec: 240 --- # How to Make Money With Game Development - Using GDevelop > Source: [How to Make Money With Game Development - Using GDevelop](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zY5kv50XNnE) ## Summary This video outlines four primary methods to monetize games created with GDevelop: selling premium games, integrating ads, using hosting platforms with built-in ads, and implementing in-app purchases. Each method is explained with practical steps and platform-specific advice. ### Key Points - **Premium Games** [00:02] — Sell games at a set price on storefronts like itch.io, GameJolt, Humble Bundle, or Steam. Steam requires an upfront fee and extra steps for achievements but offers a large user base. Mobile games can also be sold as premium via Google Developer account. - **In-Game Ads** [01:20] — Integrate ads using AdMob: create an AdMob account, add your app, pick ad types, then use GDevelop actions to load and display ads. Use test mode to avoid clicking your own ads. - **Hosting Platforms with Ads** [02:14] — Upload web games to platforms like Crazy Games or GameJolt that share ad revenue with developers. Success is tied to game performance on the site. - **In-App Purchases** [02:56] — Use GDevelop's extension to create and register products. Decide how purchases work in your game. This is a newer feature with wiki documentation. ### Conclusion GDevelop offers multiple straightforward monetization options for indie developers, from premium sales to ads and in-app purchases, with ongoing improvements to make earning easier. ## Transcript alright let's talk about four ways to do that using gdevelop beginning with the tried and true premium games ever since video games left the arcade and came into the home you've been able to buy premium games where the game is set price with g develop whether you're creating a mobile game or one for desktop you can export your game and upload it to whatever storefront you want like itch io gamejolt humble bundle or like the game swirl watch being developed by sleeper games you can upload your game to steam steam does have an upfront fee for creating your store page and requires some extra steps because you'll want to include things like steam achievements but steam's large user base makes it worth the effort and even if you're developing a mobile game you can still do this the majority of mobile games have ads and in-app purchases but you can get a google developer account for a one-time small fee and afterwards freely upload your games to the platform to sell as premium games or you can put ads in your game like this game from frolic studio at this point ads within mobile games is a commonly accepted practice and a lot of users might even be happy about the properly with gdevelop integrating ads into your mobile game is really straightforward you just create an admob account add your app to the account pick what kinds of ads you want go to your game and then use the right actions to load and then display your ad then you set up your payment information and start making money there are a few more steps in between but there's a helpful tutorial on the g develop wiki for that side note do not watch or click on your own ads that is a great way to get yourself in trouble instead with g develop use this action to change your game to test mode in that trouble speaking of ads the third method is uploading your game to a hosting platform that has their own ads like this game ball challenge 2 that's being hosted on crazy games this is actually a great deal for the hosting platform and the game developers because it means that one doesn't succeed without the other these sites give developers of web games a share of the earnings from ads based on how well their games are performing on the site there are lots of websites out there that do this but two examples are gamejolt and crazy games and the fourth way we're going to talk about in this video to earn money with your video game is with in-app purchases like ads if these are properly woven into the game users can be really happy to have the option to spend a little more money on a game they enjoy and again in g develop it's not hard to set this up you install the extension create the product that you want to sell register your product in your game using the action register an item and then decide how you want purchases to work in your game this is a fairly new extension in gdevelop but just like everything else there's a wiki page for that too there are lots of other ways to earn money with game development and gdevelop is working towards making it even easier to monetize your game in the future but these four are the most straightforward ways to go about earning money with your game tools that'll make it faster to make games in g develop check out this video games in g develop check out this video for the top 10 extensions in gdevelop