[casual_games] Casual Games List FAQ

[Eric Zimmerman]

Brian,

The FAQ is a great idea.

I regularly get calls from developers who are new to downloadable games 
(often coming from the retail game world) that usually break down into the 
following questions:

 - Should I go with a publisher or approach portals on my own?
 - What is a good royalty rate for a game if I work with a publisher?
 - What is a good revenue share rate for a major portal?
 - How easy is it to get on a portal? Does working with a publisher make a 
difference?

Plus, the questions you already asked:

 - How much revenue can I expect to make?
 - What technology should I use to create my game?

These are all good and important questions, with somewhat involved answers, 
depending on several factors. It would be great to have thorough answers in 
the FAQ so I could point people there.

-eric


Eric Zimmerman, Co-Founder & CEO, Gamelab
+1 646 827 6644    www.gamelab.com




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> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:26:57 -0500

> From: "Brian Robbins" <brian-l at dubane.com>

> Subject: [casual_games]  Casual Games List FAQ

> To: "IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List" <casual_games at igda.org>

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> Over the years several people have asked for a general "list-FAQ" that

> we can direct people to in response to several of the questions that

> are asked here regularly. Finally, we have created this resource:

> http://www.igda.org/wiki/index.php/Casual_Games_SIG/Casual_Games_List_FAQ

>

> However what you'll note when you go there is that right now it

> doesn't actually have much content. I'd like to ask for all of your

> help to change that.

>

> What questions should we include on this list? What are the answers?

> Essentially, how can we make this as useful of a resource as possible?

>

> If you think there's something that should be included here, please

> mention it now with or without the relevant answer. If you want to be

> a super star you can even log into the wiki and update it based on

> your knowledge and the responses we've seen on the list.

>

> I also now give you all permission to re-ask the same questions and

> let's hash out the answers together and document them so they will

> never be asked again :) I'll try to keep the wiki page up to date with

> the content listed, but I'd appreciate any help that other people can

> give to:

>

> http://www.igda.org/wiki/index.php/Casual_Games_SIG/Casual_Games_List_FAQ

>

> As a final request, if you have a new question to suggest, please

> start a new thread to the list with FAQ in the subject line so we can

> try to keep everything straight.

>

>

> -- 

> Brian Robbins

> Executive Producer and Gaming Evangelist

> Fuel Industries - www.fuelgames.com

> Casual_Games "List mom"

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