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Casual Games are Dead

Casual Games are Dead. Eric Zimmerman Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer, Gamelab. Casual Games are Dead Long Live Casual Games!. Eric Zimmerman Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer, Gamelab. Rules of Play Game Design Fundamentals Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman MIT Press, 2004.

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Casual Games are Dead

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  1. Casual Games are Dead Eric Zimmerman Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer, Gamelab

  2. Casual Games are DeadLong Live Casual Games! Eric Zimmerman Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer, Gamelab

  3. Rules of Play Game Design Fundamentals Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman MIT Press, 2004 The Game Design Reader A Rules of Play Anthology Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman MIT Press, 2006

  4. casual games are dead

  5. casual games are financially dead

  6. casual games are financially dead you can’t make money making them

  7. casual games are financially dead you can’t make money making them it’s a broken business model for developers

  8. casual games are financially dead you can’t make money making them it’s a broken business model for developers here come the big boys

  9. casual games are creatively dead

  10. casual games are creatively dead more genre-bound than the retail games

  11. casual games are creatively dead more genre-bound than the retail games innovation is generally not rewarded

  12. casual games are creatively dead more genre-bound than the retail games innovation is generally not rewarded what exactly is “the mass market”

  13. where do we go from here?

  14. where do we go from here? new models for funding and distribution

  15. where do we go from here? new models for funding and distribution taking more design risks

  16. where do we go from here? new models for funding and distribution taking more design risks being smarter about our markets

  17. where do we go from here? new models for funding and distribution taking more design risks being smarter about our markets redefining the casual game

  18. we can do this

  19. easy is shit

  20. Thank you! www.gamelab.com

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