Casual Games

So while things are progressing a bit slow at the moment I see the light at the end of the tunnel and I hope I'll get back on managing the site and developing some games in the near future! I've massed some creativity and feel really inspired to work on Project L again!

In the mean while I'm writing something about casual games and more specifically the genre hidden object games. This genre is the absolutely most popular casual genre at the moment. The latest being the hidden object game; Big City Adventure: New York City

To be honest I though that this would just be a fad in the casual games market, but as it seems the top casual games are mostly hidden object games! While the gameplay in the game are dead simple, basically click on a certain set of objects on a cluttered scene (with some variations on this) production values of the games are top-notch. The theme of the games also seem to lean towards the mystery/horror genre many of them having quite gruesome stories in them. A bit like an Agatha Christie novel.

As it seems this is a winning combo in the casual games market; keep the gameplay dead simple, add top quality graphics, music, user interface and a mystery story. Just check this list of the best hidden object games out.

So have you played a hidden object game at all? Why not? What did you think?

As an experiment I decided to start a fun casual games portal. For this I'm using premade content only. I'm wondering if this market is not already too packed with sites like this and how much work it will be getting this new site out there. Also it's kind of an experiment with google SEO techniques

It's really easy to get started; got a domain I liked, registered with BigFishGames. Downloaded their game system in php and a few hours of fixing and configuring the site is online.

If you are interested in helping me, please spread the word in anyway you can

I'll be keeping you guys posted on the progress.