[casual_games] FAQ: Do casual games use writers?

[Injoy Games]

I think that its safe to say that there is no definitive answer to this 
question, just as there is none for many of the previous questions.

$0 - $1M sounds pretty accurate these days...

Alex
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 4:22 pm, Kirby, Neil A (Neil) wrote:

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> How much money does it cost to make a casual game?

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> Audry Taylor

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> At GDC 2005 in San Francisco, there was a presentation given one 

> evening at the Apple Store where a guy went over how he did his 

> downloadable game.  His budget was US $10,000 and he wound up spending 

> $13,000 if memory serves.  I can't find the presentation in my paper 

> notes and my laptop was having seizures or something that week (I lost 

> a bunch of notes on sessions).

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> Music:  How to get cheap but good music?  He contracted with some jazz 

> artists who would do it cheap if he gave them prominent credit.

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> Voice Talent:  His story dialog was text.  But when you met a character 

> for the first time, voice talent would read that text for the first few 

> lines.  The player's human brain would then "hear" the unread text in 

> that same voice even though it was not read aloud.  This results in 

> tremendous savings since there is far less usage of the talent, and 

> what you get is less subject to change as the game evolves.

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> If anyone on the list could post a link to the session, I'd be 

> grateful.  The game itself I think involved a yarn shop, a magic 

> spinning wheel, and the title involved weaving a story or something 

> like that.

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