[casual_games] "Don't Roll Over" Casuality Slides

[Steve Meretzky]

Nice talk, Brian. It seems to me that portals will only budge when they have
to, and they'll only have to in the face of considerably more developer
solidarity than exists right now. If some of the major developers got
together and drew up a set of guidelines/principles/model contract to cover
the minimum acceptable portal deal, and publicize the hell out of it ...
then if a developer made a deal with a portal that didn't meet those
minimums, they'd at least know that they were breaking ranks. And we'd of
course then shun them and not invite them to Minna Mingles anymore.

Also, I must again make a plug for more innovative casual game designs ...
if an offering is very me-too-ish, a portal can ignore it if a similar game
is being offered by a developer willing to toe the financial line. But if
the game is unique, the portal will have to budge on its terms (at least
until the clones arrive, but that would be many months during which rival
portals would have an exclusive on that type of game...)

--Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Cormac Russell
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:40 AM
To: brobbins at dubane.com; IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] "Don't Roll Over" Casuality Slides

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Brian Robbins wrote:

> Several people have asked for a link to my slides from this morning's
> (rant) session at Casuality. Since it's something I think everyone
> needs to see and think about I thought it would be good to just post
> the link here:

twas a fun rant, thx for posting the slides. It was an important message, 
everybody in the casual games industry (even the 
publishers/distributors/portals) has a vested interest in seeing 
developers be able to succeed financially so that we can keep the flow of 
good innovative product coming. The traditional game industry trap where 
developers can't afford to take risks is something that it would be best 
to avoid.

    Cormac
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