I like the formula a lot - I can see where retail paid games that are too short or poor quality, or subscription games that no longer add new content can easily fall into the same category of abusing the players. I have seen a natural increase in players acceptance ...
A few years back a study was done on game developers on the expo floor at GDC - it was secretly testing the EEG response to various stimuli in video games and the report was comparing what engaged developers and what engaged players - I 'm sorry I don 't ...
If 'X ' amount of content costs 'Y ' dollars a game has to recoup that 'Y ' amount to justify making 'X ' or it won 't succeed. P2P games have used the model: make a game and hyper market it to players in a way that 90 will ...
Discovery, curation and business model are all key factors in our new digital market place. Matching players to games they will enjoy is a difficult task to solve. I 'm not saying I have a magic bullet, but I realized some very simple facts - which can be used to ...
I would be happy to purchase a next gen digital-only console, and develop games for it, that simply provided a way to play apps on my HD tv - if it had PSN/XBox Live Arcade/Indie style games along with apps from Android or WP8/Win8 and could stream, media center style ...
About 10 years ago - when 'casual ' games were just getting their boom, it was observed that there are two primary spikes that occurred in sales - traditional gamers bought games in the 'core ' genres with hard to master controls and casual gamers bought games that had easier ...
