Thursday, January 13, 2011

General Notes 1/13/11

Changing the game industry
-          Wii, Kinect
-          Smart phones
-          Interface
-          Development platforms (Steam, XNA (downloadable content))
-          Facebook (Zynga) and MMO
o   Paying money for stuff on games
MMO with alternative genre (get an agenda across)
-          Root to contention
-          Multiple issues
-          Movies do it now (Wall-E, Avatar, Happy Feet)
-          SimCity with Green materials (put in your own creations)
-          Long-term
Do you expect them to return?
-          If not in front of you -> goes to lower priority
-          In general, hard to win
How long do you expect players to play?
-          In general, short playing game
-          Subject matter type thing
How easy should these games be?
Shockvalue
-          Border Patrol (remember it just because of the shock)
Too much text
-          Impatient to read all the text
-          Short game should be intuitive no long instructions

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