Features - The Circle of Life: An Analysis of the Game Product Lifecycle. In 1994, encyclopedic game site MobyGames lists that 20 graphic adventure games were released. By 2002, the number of titles had plummeted to 3. The halcyon days of the graphic adventure genre are now long past and many of its descendants are relegated to a niche status in the modern gaming market.
This is all part of a much broader trend. Genres can be treated like product categories that evolve through a predictable series of life cycle stages. They rise in popularity and then decline. Along the way, both the needs of your users and the competitive dynamics of the market shift quite dramatically. Product categories A product category is a set of products that serve customer needs in a similar way. Product categories matter to your business. Customer defined homogenous markets. Games happen to be products that serve a person’s need for entertainment. How do product categories map onto games? Game genres are the most common way to splitting games into product categories. Knowledge center - Global Collect™ — International Payment Services. Digital Accomplice Blog | Digital Accomplice – Web Video Production. If you’re trying to create a video to sell something, you need to focus on how to convert effectively.
Every sales process has a difference sales cycle, some are impulse buys, others take a very long time. If you’re able to sell online, even better: in theory any view could lead to a sale…if you reach the right audience, with the right message at the right time. Continue reading Categories: B2B Video Marketing, B2C videos, conversion, Engagement, Marketing, Mobile, Product Videos, sales, Uncategorized, Video Production Inspiration is everywhere… if you stop and look!
1) Here’s an example that shows an interesting way to combine photos or video with illustrations. Continue reading Chipolte wins the ‘awesome award’ for brand content with their new “Farmed and Dangerous” video series. They undoubtedly had a huge budget but we can all learn from the example. I think any company can create affordable and effective video brand content.
Continue reading There are surely more as well. Video Galleries : The Big Picture. [a]listdaily. Urgent Fury Unleashed » Multiplayer no longer extending the life of games. Over the last year we have seen several titles release with a multiplayer inclusion and have been excited about the different tournaments that can be created to extend the playability of the game and continue fostering the team building and communities built around it. But then we get the game and start testing to only find that sure the “Multiplayer” label is affixed to the game but no true means of really fostering a team or community for that matter. So let’s go back a few years so I can help you understand where I am going with this. And keep in mind PC Gaming had already started this trend with games like CounterStrike, but that was not my introduction to multiplayer. On PlayStation 2, a game called Socom was launched with this new feature called Multiplayer.
Online gaming was a new concept for consoles and this seemed pretty cool. The next thing you know it, someone asked if I would join their clan or team for those not familiar with the term. Be Sociable, Share! About Shane Bell.