If the game is good enough, players will keep playing and tell their friends.

There are players for every type of game.

enter the IGF and other indie game development public competitions or such things. You can try and get on the Humble Bundle
If its full fledged enough, you can always try getting Steam to pick it up. Though unless you know someone or it meets a certain "appearance" of their standards, its very hard to get in.

If its a smaller applet, there are numerous sites out there that host java games, similiar to kongregate or newgrounds and try to make sure your apps have somewhere your main page/website information.

edit, since your in a java forum, assuming your game(s) are you in java.  There tend to be less available "games" on mac or linux, so checking into those avenues for marketing is a lot easier then marketing to the massive windows crowd, IMHO



Just keep making and producing games that are fun to play and that you enjoy making.  Don't try to make a game that will draw in the crowds, for the sole purpose of drawing in the crowds.  

These are wise words that I think many newbies (and non-newbies) should learn. Write programs that you enjoy. Write programs that a couple of your friends might enjoy, but never force the issue. Don't worry about getting rich and famous, because you won't. Don't try to invent the next minecraft/wow/facebook, because you won't (and even then, the best case scenario is you wrote a clone of something else). Have fun. Learn. Be creative. Don't worry about anything else.

Ask yourself: is "Angry Birds" really different from 1000's of other games?  My answer would be no. It's well done,
but there are many games in the same same equivalence class.   Maybe the authors could cite reasons why they're
better, but it would all be post-hoc and not useful to predict the next success.  For all practical purposes, all you
can say is that they got lucky.

You can never depend on getting lucky, and it's not a good business plan or life plan.  So I agree 100% with the
comments that you should do what you like above all.  If having actual players is what's important to you, then definitely
attach yourself to some existing site and borrow the eyeballs there.

How small studio like Rovio could out do every other mobile app companies at marketing? They was almost bankrupt before Angry Birds started to sell lot's of copies. They have luck at start and then they used their 15minutes at fame better than others and stayed on top. Their success was luck and skills not  money.

You are referring wrong numbers. Those are after success. Rovio released Angry birds at february 2010. They didn't have any money at then. They have done over 50 games before so this isn't like their first title.  After Angry Birds success they received lot of funding and started agressive recruiting. We maybe get more inside stories here at Finland but search even at wikipedia before doing that kind of empty claims.

edit: Before angry birds release they have only 12 people at work.

Of course but they did get funding because of their game was good and lucky and that was main point.

You just blindly see what you want see.

But why they did get funding at first place? Because of good game and luck.

Nailed. Now ask yourself why they did get that 42million?

They got the 42 million because they knew how to find funding.  It was not luck or game related.

It could also be that they happened to know the right person to talk to the right person with the money. 

Though I usually like to believe its a little bit of at least a half decent game, good connection, provable and solid profits, reputation, and a little chance and luck

Many things happen behind the closed doors and curtains.

JL235
I didn't mean you should make a fun game with crappy graphics.

You should still make a well rounded polished game in all aspects.

I had meant it more of,  don't choose to make a angry birds game because you think it will draw in a ton of people, if you personally hate catapult games.

If you like shoot em ups or platformers for example. make a platformer, but by all means. Make it the best damn polished, fancy, marketed platformer you possibly can.