[casual_games] Fwd: Up and coming CMMOs

[Chris Cowherd]

I've been keeping a pretty good eye on the space for about a year now.  I'm
seeing some interesting implementations but generally most fall into the
dress-up-chat-and-decorate bucket.  I think the players for this genre will
tire and be looking for more.

My kids like to play in virtual worlds, MMOs. Every time I find a new one, I
send them off to play it and gauge their response and I have found, over and
over that they continue to come back to Puzzle Pirates and yes, they want me
to buy doubloons. You're welcome Mr. James :)  Dressing up and chatting with
bad grammar tends to bore them.

Like a lot of folks, we are working on one as well.  I think there is still
plenty of space out there but I think differentiation will take you a long
way.  We are approaching it from the platform side, meaning we
are developing a server platform capable of delivering a much richer
experience in Flash with client side libraries to create a game of
significant scale (for Flash at least).

Chris Cowherd
BakedOn Entertainment <http://www.bakedon.com>

From: James Baker - WDDG/Funtank <james at wddg.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Subject: [casual_games] Up and coming CMMOs
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List <casual_games at igda.org>


  I was wondering if anyone is keeping an eye on the current crop of CMMOs.

I've been seeing quite a few pop up recently, so I was curious if anyone
thought that any of these new contenders might have a chance at being a new
puzzle-pirates or club-penguin.



At Candystand.com we're looking to possibly partner with one (or a couple)
of the CMMOs.





Thanks!



James Baker

WDDG/Funtank

candystand.com

j <James at wddg.com>ames at wddg.com

james at candystand.com

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