[casual_games] Startup

[Alex Soler]

>Our first complete game experiment (development, website, marketing) was
>a logic puzzle, PegSweper
>( http://www.mysterystudio.com/pegsweeper.php ) While it wasn't
>commercially successful, we acquired a huge amount of experience that
>enabled us to make Betty's Beer Bar
>( http://www.mysterystudio.com/bettysbeerbar.php ) which was released on
>november 2003, was successful, made Mystery Studio profitable, and even
>inspired some later games (you could say it spawned a genre).

This is very interesting, Gabriel. What kind of things do you consider you
learned from PegSweeper that allowed you to make a profitable second game?

Cheers
Alex


Alexandre Soler
Moonlamb Entertainment
Barcelona
asoler at moonlamb.com