Comments on: Can Social Games Make More Money? http://gigaom.com/2009/07/19/can-veteran-designer-brian-reynolds-make-social-games-more-money/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Zynga Blog » Blog Archive » GigaOm: Can Social Games Make More Money? http://gigaom.com/2009/07/19/can-veteran-designer-brian-reynolds-make-social-games-more-money/#comment-218149 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:53:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58870#comment-218149 [...] Click to view full article [...]

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]]> By: Nicholas http://gigaom.com/2009/07/19/can-veteran-designer-brian-reynolds-make-social-games-more-money/#comment-218146 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:01:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58870#comment-218146 May I suggest another purpose. Eliciting commentary on media like movies and music through such mechanisms could be interesting. We developed a music game-like experience — Ears Collective — for the iPhone which will launch tomorrow morning at the App Store. The objective is to rank music and see how others do so. Not really a complex game by any measure.

It would be interesting however, to create social game like mechanisms that become social measurements though. I am intrigued how Mafia Wars really does engage people for the long haul.

]]> By: Gadget Sleuth http://gigaom.com/2009/07/19/can-veteran-designer-brian-reynolds-make-social-games-more-money/#comment-218145 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:08:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58870#comment-218145 Mafia Wars is a prime example of how social gaming can be successful, but for every one of those, there’s a dozen that fail in the first few months.

]]> By: Martin http://gigaom.com/2009/07/19/can-veteran-designer-brian-reynolds-make-social-games-more-money/#comment-218144 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:21:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58870#comment-218144 Nice article.

Somehow strange that some of my childhood heroes are now active in the casual gaming area.

]]> By: SuperDave http://gigaom.com/2009/07/19/can-veteran-designer-brian-reynolds-make-social-games-more-money/#comment-218143 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:34:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=58870#comment-218143 Thanks Om. I’ve wondered how these games make money, and how sustainable they are as compared to MMO or traditional games. Scrabble has, so far, been my favorite of the offerings.

I agree with Reynolds’ observation about tedious, repetitive clicking.

It seems to me that the more games (ie Mafia Wars) can REALLY tie into the community, and build in stats ladders, the more successful they will be.

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