[casual_games] Casual Games Quarterly

[Tim Turner]

This is pretty awesome stuff!

 

Anybody want to take any (all?) of these charts and note significant
releases on the timeline?

 

A lot of these spikes are bound to be awesome releases.

 

 

 

From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of James C. Smith
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:59 PM
To: 'IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Casual Games Quarterly

 

Thanks for the table of data Steve.  That I good way to look at it.  I am
not sure how to answer 

Dave's question but here is a longer view of many more quarters but only for
Real Arcade and 

Reflexive (since those are the only portal I have 5 years of data for)

 


Real Arcade


Tag

2002Q4

2003Q1

2003Q2

2003Q3

2003Q4

2004Q1

2004Q2

2004Q3

2004Q4

2005Q1

2005Q2

2005Q3

2005Q4

2006Q1

2006Q2

2006Q3

2006Q4

2007Q1

2007Q2

2007Q3

2007Q4

Grand Total


match 3

1,038

396

225

371

954

350

476

1,025

1,416

1,527

873

769

1,762

1,364

1,108

267

913

912

1,318

433

307

17,804


click management

 

						150

501

422

753

127

326

299

1,030

1,641

330

1,022

900

1,314

1,497

10,312


breakout

724

770

519

465

390

329

672

1,152

492

715

293

78

817

287

	28

187

293

187

103

79

8,580


chain popper

 

				910

812

750

592

551

1,172

966

493

648

208

140

458

334

23

129

358

8,544


hidden objects

 

								85

209

			546

558

878

1,005

1,627

1,518

1,640

8,066


word

42

301

831

859

711

1,365

539

91

126

296

43

564

208

405

93

93

581

100

62

14

49

7,373


mahjong

1,125

640

57

56

336

	35

	406

781

418

1,047

443

216

218

143

210

90

17

302

160

6,700


collapse like mechanic

584

693

828

1,174

629

490

70

56

				28

366

340

614

133

105

		13

6,123


inlay

 

	330

625

1,110

875

441

266

410

220

210

70

35

126

187

		28

			4,933


solitaire

 

14

7

			147

161

50

104

154

706

310

567

14

	513

66

	98

105

3,016


sim

28

			42

			7

		42

		182

520

130

597

325

441

336

2,650


eat or be eaten

 

				315

665

593

310

				72

405

		21

			2,381


jigsaw

811

570

481

20

	84

					161

						35

28

	2,190


platformer

56

217

				161

	63

		407

314

28

		108

274

13

	161

1,802


strategy

 

						221

507

	171

74

	70

		206

	30

284

24

1,587


shoot em up

 

	403

98

178

56

161

280

2

40

21

84

					49

			1,372


bowling

253

484

389

91

	7

		63

	
1,287


path creation

 

		285

163

		237

155

		252

			121

					1,213


piece placement

 

					308

189

			70

			308

9

	161

		1,045


bingo

 

					427

98

	105

	105

				219

44

			998


Grand Total

4,661

4,085

4,070

4,044

4,513

4,781

4,914

5,269

5,100

4,846

4,317

5,522

4,736

4,448

4,331

4,433

4,875

4,940

4,698

4,664

4,729

97,976

 

This only includes the top 20 most popular play mechanics

 


Reflexive Arcade


Tag

2003Q2

2003Q3

2003Q4

2004Q1

2004Q2

2004Q3

2004Q4

2005Q1

2005Q2

2005Q3

2005Q4

2006Q1

2006Q2

2006Q3

2006Q4

2007Q1

2007Q2

2007Q3

2007Q4

Grand Total


breakout

675

920

920

910

1,665

1,898

2,215

1,895

1,101

765

1,277

1,084

132

51

27

 

 

554

463

16,552


hidden objects

 

									252

889

1,235

1,479

1,962

2,480

2,393

1,673

1,291

13,654


shoot em up

1,188

1,552

1,891

1,801

1,234

1,502

775

345

47

11

	89

		29

38

		1

10,503


match 3

8

161

173

160

2

564

912

1,464

1,146

990

1,207

437

323

712

299

429

381

62

195

9,625


sim

 

	
723

819

1,183

1,443

1,071

1,423

872

950

8,484


mahjong

419

584

702

726

699

327

298

790

764

1,159

333

225

	26

53

				7,105


click management

 

								92

23

82

1,334

1,168

528

260

407

743

1,226

5,863


chain popper

 

							838

890

792

860

399

13

60

18

		236

4,106


poker

 

			160

47

	26

834

917

345

263

305

194

					3,091


strategy

 

							64

1

	147

87

25

371

530

422

313

439

2,399


collapse like mechanic

453

523

326

574

345

21

						1

87

					2,330


Bust A Move like mechanic

 

668

560

434

343

33

	
2,038


word

175

297

77

94

230

146

				200

								1,219


eat or be eaten

 

				212

488

191

				120

						1,011


solitaire

 

		241

61

17

			331

3

			284

				937


adventure

 

	
68

843

	911


chess

 

								193

588

10

							791


bingo

 

					96

52

211

42

				217

				618


platformer

124

11

			80

259

								41

			515


inlay

 

				137

	7

			141

181

						466


Grand Total

3,042

4,716

4,649

4,940

4,739

4,984

5,043

4,770

5,005

5,391

5,020

4,950

4,936

4,938

5,273

4,867

5,094

5,060

4,801

92,218

 

Notice that Reflexive started off with Ricochet and Crimsonland which build
a base of 

break out and shoop em up games but has evolved into a typical casual
audience 

craving Hidden Object and Click management games

 

 

James C. Smith

Producer / Co-Founder: Reflexive Entertainment

Editor: Game-Sales-Charts.com

 

 

From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of STEVE FERNANDEZ
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:36 PM
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Casual Games Quarterly

 

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.


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