Gah...how many times have I head the 'you should throw hundreds of hours into a game so as to appease the priviledged tastes of gamers' line pitched?
It is worth thinking of how many hours you put in Vs return, instead of just telling people it's all about putting your heart into it for the sake of putting your heart into it.
Sorry to be slightly off topic, Duke. It's probably a good idea to look at various games on kongregate that identify themselves as a stencyl game. Roughly 16 views equals 1 cent.
Looking at flappy bird (quite possible to do in stencyl, of course), it's a matter of social networking or just plain luck that a popular blogger will 'champion' you, for massive popularity/views.