[casual_games] Casual Game Portal Features

[Wade Tinney]

Actually, those are not the only things that matter to me, although
certainly they are at the top of the list. 

If you'd like to create a portal that is superior to the most of the
existing portals, I would also consider the following features, above and
beyond the ones that Phil mentioned: 

-Access to download/sales data in real-time

-Give developers and publishers credit on the pages for their games.

-Create a royalty system that includes sharing advertising revenue with
developers, so that they are motivated to create content which maximizes
said revenue.

-Ability for developers to build tracking and feedback mechanisms into their
games, so that they can better understand the customer and create better
games and thus make everyone more money

-If you're going to have a subscription service, share the "breakage" with
your content partners. It's only fair. 

-Make public your system for determining the top 10 games. Never curate that
list. 


Other ideas out there? 


Wade










Wade Tinney
partner, game designer
Large Animal Games, nyc
http://www.largeanimal.com
212-989-4312


-----Original Message-----
From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Phil Steinmeyer
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 10:57 AM
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Casual Game Portal Features

The only things that really matter to casual game studios are traffic, and 
percentage royalty.

As for consumers?  That's depends on what consumers you're trying to reach. 
My quick summary - look at Amazon.com.  Build the equivalent of it for 
games.  Nobody has done this yet, and the first one to do it well, and 
market it well, should prosper.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Tate" <pixelparklarry at lycos.com>
To: <casual_games at igda.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 3:01 PM
Subject: [casual_games] Casual Game Portal Features


Hello,

If someone were to build a brand new casual game portal from scratch what 
web site features, for both consumers and causal game studios, would you 
like to see?

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