So, our Moving Pixels podcast crew spent a couple of weeks playing in fits and starts (well, because that’s the way you have to play social games) the beta version of Sid Meier’s CivWorld.
The game seems an effort to capture a narrower audience of Facebook gamers, a more hardcore crowd, or possibly to introduce casual players to the Civilization universe. We consider the game’s success at doing so and whether or not social games can legitimately appeal to a hardcore audience.
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More discussion of social gaming:
Paying to Own, Paying to Compete: Monetizing the Social Game by G. Christopher Williams
The Mass Appeal of Farmville by L.B. Jeffries
Farmville: Fetch Me My Manure Boots by Jennifer Byrne
Our podcast contributors:
Rick Dakan is a regular contributor to the Moving Pixels blog as well as to the Gamma Testing podcast.
G. Christopher Williams is the Multimedia Editor at PopMatters.com. You can find his weekly updates featured at the Neuromance blog.
Nick Dinicola is also a regular contributor to the Moving Pixels blog.
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