Following on from my last post, what do casual gamers look like?
From my involvement with Playaholics, Chickstop and Millions of Games, I can give you a very boring answer in terms of demographics, habits, play durations and score submissions but the one thing that continues to stick in my mind regarding the look and feel of casual gamers is one of the early posts to the excellent Casual Games mailing list.
In a thread discussing casual games user groups, Wade Tinney posted a link to the winners pages on Wild Games.
If you want to see what casual gamers look like, if you want to know what jobs they hold, how they found the games they play and how they view themselves as gamers (it ranges from slightly dismissive to very positive, more often than not), then take five minutes to browse through these competition winners, it’s fascinating stuff.
Casual Gamers, what do they look like?
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July 3rd, 2006 at 11:28 pm
[…] There goes the try-before-you-buy model, then. Given that these games are probably going to turn up in Walmart stores, the very same people who buy Casual Games online are now going to buy them in-store, along with their groceries, without the perceived risk of buying online. […]
August 11th, 2006 at 11:57 am
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