Odds and Ends
Casual Game Interviews:
Ken Wells, VP of Marketing for Big Fish Games
Jeff Tunnell, CEO of Garage Games, has a well-written, new blog
What I’m up to:
More puttering with the Mac version of Bonnie’s Bookstore (should be out very soon). Game concepts/quick prototypes for my next game.
Bonnie’s Bookstore is now on every major portal that I’m aware of, except Zylom (European portal that I think is waiting for translations to complete). This list isn’t exhaustive - there are a lot of small to medium sized sites that I haven’t listed:
Real Arcade
Yahoo
AOL
MSN Games
Pogo
PopCap
Shockwave
DA Games (UK/Euro friendly)
GameDemo
Games2Download
TryGames
Reflexive
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:05 pm
Are sites like download.com and tucows not good for game downloads?
February 2nd, 2006 at 11:19 pm
They’re kinda weak for casual games - it’s hard to separate the wheat from the chaff when you’re browsing. Whereas the portals are mostly well set up, with top 10 lists, good categorization, filtering out of bad games, etc.
The vast bulk of casual game sales are through portals, and to a much lesser extent, developer’s own sites. General-purpose shareware-y sites like download.com are very minor in this biz. For instance, Bonnie’s Bookstore on Download.com has 335 downloads to date. That’s well under 1% of total downloads of the game (weeeeeelllll under)
February 3rd, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Thanks. That’s good to know.