Players scour Paris for souvenirs as they're interviewed for an article in a travel magazine. The Seattle-based company spent $300,000, hired seasoned illustrators and photographers, and bought the rights to images of historic landmarks like the Eiffel Tower. released its most expensive title _ ''Travelogue 360: Paris'' _ earlier this month. The games can be played for 5 minutes _ while the baby is sleeping or between office meetings _ or for hours at a stretch in a Zen-like trance.īig Fish Games Inc. The sequel also has an original musical score.Ĭasual gamers play to relax _ the same reason people play solitaire, dominoes or mahjong. The original game blends features from crossword puzzles and The Jumble, and in the sequel Lex progresses through stages of richly stylized dragons, vampires and other foes. The protagonist of ''Bookworm Adventures'' is Lex, a brainy, bow tie-wearing invertebrate who bops evildoers on the noggin whenever the gamer spells a word from a random assortment of letters. If they include characters at all, they're almost never the stereotypical swashbuckling soldiers or stealthy kick boxers of hardcore games. The games often revolve around spelling, trivia, arithmetic or geometry. It takes less than a minute to understand the rules, structure and plot. ''They used to be considered a low art form.'' Casual games are simple, one-player puzzles that can be played on desktop computers, gaming consoles, cell phones or hand-held computers. ''A couple years ago, the prevailing wisdom was that it took three guys six months and $100,000 to make a casual game,'' said PopCap director John Vechey. It's set to debut online Tuesday at $30 per download. PopCap, which has offices in San Francisco, Seattle and Ireland, spent $700,000 over 2 and a half years developing the game. The sequel to one of PopCap's popular word puzzles, ''Bookworm Adventures,'' is expected to be the most expensive title produced for the casual game genre. Companies like PopCap are sinking hundreds of thousands of dollars into casual games and demanding sophisticated graphics, more nuanced plots, even original music instead of bland electronica. Such hardcore games can cost $30 million or more to develop _ as much as a Hollywood movie.īut the casual gaming niche, which includes hits like ''Bejeweled,'' ''Scrabble'' and the low-budget classic ''Tetris,'' is in the midst of a Cinderella-like transformation. Their humble word puzzles and math teasers were in a different league from games in which role-playing characters spray bullets, slay dragons and maim rivals in fantastic virtual worlds. used to think of themselves as the unloved stepchildren of the computer gaming industry. PopCap Game Collection.The programmers at PopCap Games Inc.
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