[casual_games] Casual Games Quarterly

[STEVE FERNANDEZ]

I spent a little time with some of the queries.  It is rather labor
intensive to do a breakdown by portal with the current UI, so this is
just an aggregate.   This is what I came up with for 2007.   The numbers
are based on the score metric.


>From the web site


 

Score

A games score is a very simplistic way of measuring how many weeks a
game was in the top 10 list and how high it the list it ranked.  A game
is given 10 points for ranking #1 in a top 10 list, 9 point for being
number 2, and so on down to 1 point for ranking #10.

 

In other words, games accumulate more score for each time they appear in
the top 10 list and a higher appearance in the list is worth more than a
lower appearance.

 

 

Genre

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Score

hidden objects

27,814

32,752

27,720

24,904

113,190

click management

19,107

18,414

23,762

33,712

94,995

sim

17,896

21,165

14,764

19,955

73,780

match 3

13,464

17,432

11,358

12,991

55,245

adventure

1,240

1,594

10,007

3,961

16,802

strategy

2,468

3,520

5,122

4,593

15,703

word

4,306

3,150

2,246

3,239

12,941

breakout

2,905

2,649

2,889

2,733

11,176

mahjong

1,674

2,144

2,745

3,507

10,070

trivia

3,495

1,559

1,344

1,364

7,762

chain popper

3,091

845

744

2,891

7,571

solitaire

2,147

1,102

966

688

4,903

platformer

1,999

970

402

1,245

4,616

RPG

1,928

1,058

1,011

480

4,477

collapse like mechanic

1,470

890

896

978

4,234

pachinko

1,317

1,259

236

649

3,461

slot machine

317

200

2,199

718

3,434

shoot em up

1,562

911

490

348

3,311

artillery

540

909

1,030

642

3,121

bowling

682

717

437

428

2,264

poker

466

549

440

533

1,988

dice

0

1,097

255

22

1,374

mini-games

524

0

534

88

1,146

bingo

738

354

17

16

1,125

aim and grab

658

48

73

321

1,100

inlay

255

457

115

184

1,011

piece placement

61

411

348

0

820

jigsaw

322

183

165

34

704

spot the difference

0

6

521

98

625

Minesweeper Style

0

61

469

0

530

animal care

158

8

0

319

485

golf

1

35

90

286

412

Bust A Move like mechanic

22

184

125

14

345

aim and click

0

264

57

22

343

path creation

219

41

31

17

308

Lines

0

29

42

229

300

memory

0

93

167

15

275

Whac-A-Mole

48

193

2

6

249

sudoku

86

104

15

18

223

flight combat

83

65

44

5

197

racing

3

91

70

3

167

Sokaban

32

82

10

10

134

fill in board

2

16

84

18

120

fishing

0

69

0

0

69

dominoes

0

36

9

17

62

digital photo sharing

56

0

0

0

56

chess

16

21

10

5

52

eat or be eaten

21

0

0

18

39

billiards

7

3

0

22

32

 

 

 

________________________________

From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Dave Rohrl
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:53 PM
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Casual Games Quarterly

 

Hey, James, I was just looking over your excellent roundup of top 10
data from Q2 and Q3 and it triggered an interesting question for me.  I
find the dance of rising and falling genres in the lists really
fascinating.  Have you figured out a reasonably reliable way to look at
that genre data and filter out how much of the change relates to the
list of titles in a given quarter vs. true (and durable shifts) in the
market?  That is, are we seeing a downtrend in the match 3 category just
because there weren't as many strong match 3 titles released that
quarter or because the public is just getting tired or them?  I'm sure
this is impossible to measure over a couple of quarters, but if you look
at this data over a 4-8 quarter period, can you find a way to eliminate
the noise and get a look at real trend lines? 

Dave Rohrl
Indpendent Casual Game Producer/Designer/Consultant
universedave -at- gmail -dot- com

On Jan 18, 2008 10:09 AM, James C. Smith < james at reflexive.net
<mailto:james at reflexive.net> > wrote:

Thank you Wade for putting together another great issue of the
Quarterly.  It is always a great read.

 

Here is a list of the articles in the newest issue: 

*	Letter from the Editor
<http://www.igda.org/casual/quarterly/2_4/index.php>  
*	IGDA Casual Games SIG 2007-2008 Initiatives
<http://www.igda.org/casual/quarterly/2_4/index.php?id=1>  
*	Improving Communication with your Sound Designer, Part 3
<http://www.igda.org/casual/quarterly/2_4/index.php?id=2>  
*	Understanding Digital Rights Management and Anti-Piracy
Technologies <http://www.igda.org/casual/quarterly/2_4/index.php?id=3>  
*	Top-10 Data Review: Q2 and Q3, 2007
<http://www.igda.org/casual/quarterly/2_4/index.php?id=4> 


You can find all the previous issues of the Quarterly here: Casual Games
Quarterly Archive
<http://www.igda.org/wiki/Casual_Games_SIG#IGDA_Casual_Games_Quarterly> 

 

James C. Smith

Reflexive Entertainment

 

-----Original Message-----
From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Wade Tinney
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 8:34 AM
To: 'IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List'
Subject: [casual_games] Casual Games Quarterly

 

 

First off, I wanted to correct oversight on my part. It seems that I

neglected to announce the last issue of the Casual Games Quarterly to
this

list. Here is that link: http://www.igda.org/casual/quarterly/2_4/


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