Ask HN: Major Forms of Social Gaming?

4 points by JCThoughtscream 15 years ago | 2 comments

Doing a bit of personal research, mostly to scratch an intellectual itch, but also because there's a few ideas I've been working on, and I want to compare it against what's out there right now.

What does HN think the major social gaming archetypes are? We've got MMOs (both subscription-based and Korean-style freemium), compulsion-loop Farmville games... what else?

benologist 15 years ago |

Casual gaming, either explicitly ala http://www.casualcollective.com/ and http://www.kongregate.com/ or implicitly with viral distribution too (the rest of the major portals). That market spans 100s of millions of players.

coryl 15 years ago |

Text-based?