![]() ![]() Most of them play casual games to relieve stress and to stimulate their mind. These gamers are more often female than male. As you read it, you get a mental picture of the stereotypical casual game player. The recent market survey from has some great information in it. I'm currently working on a casual game which is supposed to reach the same market as Bejeweled or Luxor. Let's start by thinking about reward schemes. LUMINES ADVANCE PACK PSPI expected the base game to have at least half the amount of content as Lumines 1 for the PSP did. But I suspect they made a blunder with their pricing scheme.įor the record, I do feel like I was a little cheated. Of course, I have no idea how any of these products are actually selling. If most people think like I do, that means that there are fewer than 1000 people who feel compelled to buy the Advance Pack. What's worse is that I don't feel like buying the Advance pack because I don't feel advanced. ![]() So how many people have bought this game, if my paltry score can be so high in the rankings? And there are far less than 1000 people with scores that high. Clearly, the designers expected a relatively dedicated player to be twice as good as I am. Before you go assuming that I'm amazing at the game, take into account that in order to unlock the score-related Achievement, you need to earn 500,000 - more than double my highest score. That means only 1000 people are better than me. As of this writing, that makes me slightly over 1000th place in the leaderboards for this product. I mean, I'm not a shabby Lumines player, but I'm also not amazing. But that word "advance" there really throws me. ![]() The "Advance Pack" is the first available add-on, and it costs $7.50.Ĭonsidering the base game has so few skins, it's hard for me to think of the game as complete unless you buy the advance pack to get the other skins. The big sticking point was its high cost compared to other Live Arcade titles ($15), and the fact that this didn't get you the "full game" - the menus include various stuff you can't actually use until you pay more for them. Lumines Live shipped on XBox 360 last Wednesday, to mixed reviews. ![]()
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