[casual_games] languages... (that's an 's' at the end!)

[Lionel barret De Nazaris]

Phil Steinmeyer wrote:
> Right now, requiring a 25MB .NET framework download would be 
> commercial suicide in the 'traditional' casual games distribution 
> channels (RealArcade, Yahoo, MSN, Pogo etc).
>
> Perhaps that will change at some point in the future, but I think that 
> point is AT LEAST two years away.
>
> Of course, for retail (on-disk) distribution, and possibly other 
> alternative channels (including marketing of niche games, marketing of 
> an entire games 'platform', etc), this may not be as much of a problem.
I agree with you when we are talking about strictly casual game. But the 
distinction between "casual" and "small" game (breakquest, astral 
masters) is not very clear and is more a gradation with price and data 
size very correlated...
A portal could use exclusively .Net to get an edge.
Downloading 25MB is not really an issue with "real" broadband. The real 
issue is the lack of browser plug-in.
Streaming the framework (download and install along) could make it even 
easier.
The thing is : during the install, put a nice game ;) a flash one for 
example.

Sadly all this, need a bigger workforce than the average casual/indie 
game dev studio.
Lionel.