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Gamasutra offers a behind-the-scenes look at three recent casual game bestsellers (Casuality: Luxor, Mah Jong Quest, Fish Tycoon Devs Talk Postmortems).
The lead developers for those three games were Darren Walker, Lead Programmer of Mumbo Jumbo (Luxor), Jim Stern, VP of Production at iWin (Mah Jong Quest), and Carla Humphrey, Executive …

An article at GameDaily (Are Big Budget Console Games Sustainable?) discusses the economics of developing new games for next-generation (PS3, Xbox360) consoles, predicting that total costs will rise to $25 million per title, compared to current costs of about $14 million. At that level, a title will need to …

Tom Hume has published his notes and commentary on a presentation given by Jason Kapalka of Popcap Games at Casuality Europe, a conference for casual game developers, publishers and distributors. “10 ways to make a bad casual game” is a list of things developers should think about when creating …

The Escapist, an online magazine covering gaming and gamer culture, published an article from Allen Varney titled Casual Fortunes, which discusses the economics of casual games, compared to “hardcore” games, such as popular console and PC video game titles.
The American casual game market was estimated to be worth $600 million …