Sit-Com Casual Games
March 16th, 2009, By Duncan Gough
I completed forgot about Supple.
“Supple, a soap-opera type social interaction game, which is planned to be the released as a series of episodes with advanced features and additional characters and narratives included with each episode.”
“Supple, is one of the most popular downloadable games of 2008. The testimonials and game reviews say it all. With over 3 million downloads already, this totally original Sims-style game is sweeping the internet. Supple is funny, challenging, sexy and the characters actually speak real English.”
I played it a year or so ago and it was fun. When the hype about Episodic Games was exciting, a sit-com style game sounded perfect. It’s a shame that no-one has built a successful episodic game, unless you count the yearly sports iterations of games like Fifa Soccer, but sit-coms and comics would be a great fit for regular, immersive casual gaming as entertainment services.
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Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » Fictive Worlds replied:
[...] So The Wire is just a simulation of Baltimore, programmed to run from start to finish in around 65 hours (5 seasons of ~13 episodes at 1 hour apiece). Just as Friends is an inward-looking simulation of six distinct personalities in very limited number of locations (coffee shop, apartment, balcony). Speaking of Friends, that reminds me of Supple. [...]
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