Firsties Guest Blog: Joel Brodie - PlayFirst Grapevine
2008
by Nemone
DEC
23
If you work in the casual game industry, you know Joel. Joel Brodie is the founder of Gamezebo.com, the editorial home of casual games on the net. Previously, Joel was head of business development for Yahoo! Games, where he was responsible for building numerous enterprising products, including Yahoo! Games Downloads, Games on Demand, and Video Games.
See Gamezebo’s latest post, featuring tips & tricks for Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar’s Eye, at http://gamezebo.com/games/nightshift-legacy-jaguars-eye/tips-tricks/nightshift-legacy-jaguar-039-s-eye-tips
PlayFirst is proud to present Joel Brodie’s Wish List for 2009, and assures you that wish number five has been granted:
Instead of giving you my predictions (which you can read on Gamezebo in my editorial, “Recession? What Recession?”), I’ll going to give you my Wish List for what I want to see in 2009.
- A fair deal for developers. It’s not easy to be a game developer these days, with lower prices, lower margins, higher development costs, and less ways to sell their games. I wish that game developers get a new fair deal, so that they have more money to make better games for us to play.
- Better games. We played a lot of great games in 2008 (Cooking Dash, Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst, Mortimer Beckett and the Time Paradox, etc), but there have also been a lot of major disappointments. It’s kind of like a TV schedule where every show is sort of the same. I wish for better games to review and play.
- New hybrid game categories. The most interesting casual games to me are those that combine different genres. A hidden object game meets an adventure game. An adventure games meets a time management game. You get the picture. I wish for more games that break between the lines.
- Lower prices and more ways to pay to play. OK, this is less a wish and more a fact of life. Games are being offered at lower prices due to the recession and different discount clubs (like you have seen here at PlayFirst). And it’s a good thing. The lower the price per game, the more game players can buy and the larger the market will be.
- 6 PlayFirst gift cards for the Holidays. My 6 nieces love the Dash games. My last wish is for PlayFirst to give me 6 free coupons to give my nieces the gift of Dash games to my nieces so that I am officially become the coolest Uncle ever.
Finally, I would like to wish everyone reading this a Happy Holidays and New Year.
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posted Feb 26, 2009 7:42:03 PM