Slide collection of my short speech at the gameplaces international 2008

1. Casual Games
History, Status Quo And Future In 19 Minutes
André Bernhardt
26.05.08

2. Casual Games
Overview
Introduction
Short History of Casual Games
Status Quo
The Future
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3. Casual Games - History
In The Beginning –1970+
Pong 1972
Nolan Bushnell
Atari
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4. Casual Games - History
Pong
DEPOSIT QUARTER
BALL WILL SERVE AUTOMATICALLY
AVOID MISSING BALL FOR HIGH SCORE
Trivia : The first computer game ever was Tennis for two developed 1958 by William Higinbotham
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5. Casual Games - History
World of Warcraft Manual
Trivia : The unofficial WoW-Wikipedia Wowwiki.com features 56.384 Articles at the moment
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6. Casual Games - History
1980+
One target audience: Kids & Teens
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7. Casual Games - History
1990+
Nintendo Game Boy
Windows 3.0: Solitare
Trivia : Tetris sold at the Game Boy over 30.26 million copies.
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8. Casual Games - History
1990+
Civilization
Dune 2
Railroad Tycoon
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9. Casual Games - Overview
Civilization 1 Advances Chart
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10. Casual Games - History
Hard to learn:
i.e. Civilization Easy to learn:
i.e. Guitar Hero
Instant accessibility
Source: http://www.casualgamedesign.
com/
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11. Casual Games – Short Quiz
Instant accessibility and platforms
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12. Casual Games - History
2000+
Source: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10681 - Parks Associates Study
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13. Casual Games - History
Source: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10681 - Parks Associates Study
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14. Casual Games - Overview
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15. Casual Games - Future
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16. Casual Games - Conclusio
Instant accessibility will get more and more important – even for gaming plattforms:
Easy to use consoles:
Easy to use online services:
…and last but not least the omnipresent devices:
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17. Casual Games
Thanks a lot for your attention!
Contact:
André Bernhardt
RTL Games
Am Coloneum 1
50829 Cologne
andre.bernhardt@rtl.de
Trivia : My favourite chart I definitely wanted to show but didn´t fit into my presentation until now. +49 221 780 6582
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