Dragon's Lair remastered in HD
So what. I mean ok they are taking one of the biggest quarter mongers of all time and making a DVD so us old farts can play it on the PC. Whoptee right? Well, right. But what if...
Lately a lot of the talk in the gameblogosphere has been about casual games and rightly so. Casuals offer small TMM. Time, men and money being the big three in any endeavor. They also offer a lot of distribution channels as anyone who played in the spaec recognizes. You can Besmkacdown for next to nothing and if it is good you can sell it to subscription web portals, pay for download, retail box, airplane seat backs...whatever. And unlike a AAA title, casuals don't necessarily peak really fast, they can be repackaged and re marketed to new distro channels again and again. This is indeed a good space to get into if you are indy (which generally means you have very little TMM).
So why then isn't someone looking at something like this as a casual game. It fits my favorite definition that it can be played with the mouse or my second that my grangran could play it. And with flash you could web browser this sucker in a heart beat.
There's a freebee for ya but when you stop to think about it there are a lot of "reusable" titles from the hey day of gaming that could easily be repackaged for the casual market and a lot of these liscenses could likely be had cheap. I'll call Costikyan. Someone scrounge me up some TMM...stat!
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Lately a lot of the talk in the gameblogosphere has been about casual games and rightly so. Casuals offer small TMM. Time, men and money being the big three in any endeavor. They also offer a lot of distribution channels as anyone who played in the spaec recognizes. You can Besmkacdown for next to nothing and if it is good you can sell it to subscription web portals, pay for download, retail box, airplane seat backs...whatever. And unlike a AAA title, casuals don't necessarily peak really fast, they can be repackaged and re marketed to new distro channels again and again. This is indeed a good space to get into if you are indy (which generally means you have very little TMM).
So why then isn't someone looking at something like this as a casual game. It fits my favorite definition that it can be played with the mouse or my second that my grangran could play it. And with flash you could web browser this sucker in a heart beat.
There's a freebee for ya but when you stop to think about it there are a lot of "reusable" titles from the hey day of gaming that could easily be repackaged for the casual market and a lot of these liscenses could likely be had cheap. I'll call Costikyan. Someone scrounge me up some TMM...stat!
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When it first came out....what was it, 1980? I thought it was some neato tech, but as far as playing? Well, Omega Race and Gorf and Wizard of Wor took up most of my 2 bits, hehe.
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