Casuality - casual games conference

General Discussions
#1

Some interesting hilights from day one:

[] The mass-market thinks nothing of downloading 10Mb games (according to PopCap, Sandlot, etc)
[] The major players are aiming at 20Mb downloads as being fine, but “you’d better have good screenshots [to make sure they don’t give up waiting] if the download is 20Mb”
[] Most interest seems to be in moving towards skill-based gaming (c.f. worldwinner, midasplayer, etc)
[] There is still almost nothing happening in genuinely / non-trivial multiplayer casual games

#2

Thanks for the update Blah^3. Keep em coming.

#3

I agree to your second bullet…

[quote]The major players are aiming at 20Mb downloads as being fine, but “you’d better have good screenshots [to make sure they don’t give up waiting] if the download is 20Mb”
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…but I still prefer to program Applets. :slight_smile: Well, plus I haven’t gotten the hang of Swing yet. I’m still coding with old AWT events.

#4

The Java Posse is predicting the return of Applets, and I think they might be right. With broadband becoming more prevalent, and web apps becoming more popular, the time is much better for Applets now than ever.

#5

Yeah, I like playing web games all the time since there’s no need for 25MB+ downloads. Less wait! :slight_smile: Anyway, hope we didn’t go too far off topic here.