2006 Casual Games White Paper 15
Dubane writes "The 2006 Casual Games White Paper (pdf) has just been released by the IGDA Casual Games SIG. The 116-page report was contributed to by nearly 40 professionals in the casual gaming space, spanning all aspects of the industry, including developers, publishers, portals, tool providers and more. Notable updates from last year are the Business Models section with up to date information on how casual game companies are making money today, and the Publishing section which contains results from a publishing survey of over 50 players in space. These results provide information how companies earn their revenue, what genres of games perform the best, and typical royalty rates seen for the various players in the space (among other things). This year's paper is also available on the IGDA wiki where it can be continuously updated by the community."
What's Next? (Score:1)
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Disappointing (Score:1)
I've always been a casual gamer... (Score:4, Funny)
Meaning of Casual Games (Score:1)
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Casual Games definition (Score:3, Interesting)
In a lot of ways you are right. Casual Games is an extremely hard to define term. We took a shot at it again this year, but the reality is that I don't think we'll ever see a full and complete defition of casual games. Some people like to define them by their player-base (ie Soccer Moms), but that's flawed because there's many other types of people playing casual games. Even if you expand the definition to people that play in short bursts of time it isn't right, because you have some extremely hardcore casu
Re:Meaning of Casual Games (Score:1)
That's the official Casual Games definition. It's not applicable to gaming casually, to blowing off steam on the Xbox360 [suttree.com] or to playing old-school classics using MAME. Casual Gamers are a very tighly defined bunch and Casual Games are almost exclusively aimed at Windows downloaded, try-before-you-buy, 2D pick-up-and-go style games.
Personally, I find actually 'looking at' what consititues a Casual Gamer [suttree.com] makes it easier to define them as a bunch.
Argh! (Score:2)
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