[casual_games] Casual Games Quarterly Spring 09 Issue: Exclusivity roundtable, Bejeweled Twist Postmortem and more

[James C. Smith]

The Spring
<http://www.igda.org/casual/quarterly/igda_casual_game_quarterly_4_1.pdf>
2009 issue of the Casual
<http://www.igda.org/wiki/Casual_Games_SIG#IGDA_Casual_Games_Quarterly>
Games Quarterly is now available.  This is the most recent issue in a long
running publication of IGDA's Casual Games SIG.  This issue features:

.         Exclusivity Roundtable: A panel of eight industry veterans from
portals, publisher and developers sound off in the issue of portal
exclusivity for downloadable games.

.         Bejeweled Twist Postmortem: Jason Kapalka of PopCap reveals the
long windy road that "Zongo" took during the development process to
eventually earned the right to be part of the Bejeweled franchise.

.         Top 10 Data Review - Release Date Synchronization: James C. Smith
uses data from CasualCharts.com to shows which download games were most
popular in 2008 and which portals had them first.  

.         IGDA Casual Games Whitepaper Announcement: Dave Rohrl announces
the release of the 2008 addition the this masterpiece containing valuable
information for developers, investors and anyone else wanting to learn more
about web games, download games, microtransations, casual console games and
every other kind of casual game.

 

You can find this issue and all past issues of the Quarterly at
http://www.igda.org/wiki/Casual_Games_SIG#IGDA_Casual_Games_Quarterly

 

James C. Smith

IGDA Casual Games SIG 

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