18 February 2006
Casual Game Design » Game design at Casuality Europe
by bcpbcp# Make it really hard.
# Have a dozen mediocre game modes instead of one good one.
# Make it a 600 MB download that requires two next generation video cards and 4GB RAM.
# Price your game at $35 or $3.50 and sell only from your myspace homepage.
# Use the right mouse button.
# Give it a terrible name or theme.
# Award low scores.
# Expect users to read.
# Make it challenging and cerebral.
# Ignore what everyone else says about your game.
11 February 2006
PhilSteinmeyer.com » Blog Archive » Top 10 Casual Games Portals
by bcpbcpIf I was to put a short list of the top 10 by volume (not performance) I would say
1) RealArcade (Gamehouse)
2) Yahoo Games
3) Oberon Network : Pogo, AOL (non exclusive), MSN, Xbox Life, and so on
4) Zylom
5) Shockwave
6) BigFish Games
7) Boonty Games
8) TryMedia (Because of AOL)
9) Reflexive Network
10) Gamefiesta, Arcadetown, Iwin, Wild Tangent
29 January 2006
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