Subject: Re: SUSPECT: RE: [casual_games] multiplayer?

[k f]

I wonder why I'm being hounded by one of the biggest game aggregators in the 
market to get my game on their portal?

Kurosh Fallahzadeh
www.kdfinfotech.com


>From: Kim Pallister <kimpall at microsoft.com>
>Reply-To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List <casual_games at igda.org>
>To: "casual_games at igda.org" <casual_games at igda.org>
>Subject: Subject: Re: SUSPECT: RE: [casual_games] multiplayer?
>Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:02:38 -0700
>
>KF,
>
>I think what you are hearing from the list is that everybody's pretty 
>skeptical about the 2-mouse approach.
>
>If you still want to support it, and believe there's a market there (more 
>people like your friend :-), GREAT! Maverick thinking is what changes the 
>world.
>
>In the meantime, though, if you want to get distribution, you are going to 
>have to face some realities of the market. Namely, make sure you have a 
>good, solid, robust, high-quality, polished single player game experience. 
>If the game can stand on it's own like that, great. If after that it has a 
>mode that you think will find an untapped niche of customers, more power to 
>you.
>
>Kim Pallister
>Business Development
>Microsoft Casual Games
>
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>
>Message: 1
>Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:15:16 +0530
>From: "k f" <mamaji4 at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: SUSPECT: RE: [casual_games] multiplayer?
>To: casual_games at igda.org
>Message-ID: <BAY115-F35E366563325B5DDDE27FDF8040 at phx.gbl>
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>
>I have a friend who has always wanted to play real-time multiplayer games
>like Air-hockey on the net, but he just can't seem to, at any time of day 
>or
>night, because he's on a dial-up. And he's been trying that for the past
>month. He doesn't want to spend $$$s on a console. He doesn't mind bringing
>his mouse over for a friendly one-on-one. But now I'm going to have to tell
>him that he'll have to change his mindset, because nobody in their right
>mind would cramp around a PC and do something like that.
>
>After hearing all the counter arguments I have arrived at the following
>conclusion. My firm will be the only one turning out games with support for
>multiple mice. :-) :-)
>
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