Casual players ready for strategy games
21 01 2009I don’t know about you but I always had troubles positioning my games within existing casual game categories. For example, I didn’t know whether I want to put Runes of Avalon into match-3 games or brain-teaser games. I believe it was the same with a lot of other games like Virtual Villagers, Build-a-Lot or Westward.
Good news is that despite all the whining about clones new genres are evolving. If you develop strategy games then you don’t need to worry that your game will compete in the same category with Diner Dash. At least at Big Fish Games, there is a category strategy games.
A bit off topic: have you noticed that despite real estate markets going down real estate games hold strong?
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I believe that “accessible” strategy games are going to be quite a big thing on the casual portals …