http://nongraphical.com/2008/09/casual-games-for-the-pc/ A dynamic trapeze of web design, programming, and randomness. Fri, 28 May 2010 07:45:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://nongraphical.com/2008/09/casual-games-for-the-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-530 Social gaming? Try HoMM 3! | Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:14:02 +0000 http://blog.nongraphical.com/?p=80#comment-530 <p>[...] Last time I wrote about try­ing to find ca­su­al games for medi­um/large-group so­cial events. We can split mul­ti­play­er video gam­ing in­to a cou­ple of vague­ly-de­fined cat­e­gories; I’m go­ing to use the term “ca­su­al” or “so­cial gam­ing” to refer to medi­um-scale so­cial gath­er­ings that in­volve video gam­ing; hard­core gam­ing, of course, is all about the game; and we might per­haps call the last group “LAN par­ty gam­ing” to indi­cate a mid­dle ground be­tween ca­su­al gam­ing and su­per-in­tense gam­ing. [...]</p> […] Last time I wrote about try­ing to find ca­su­al games for medi­um/large-group so­cial events. We can split mul­ti­play­er video gam­ing in­to a cou­ple of vague­ly-de­fined cat­e­gories; I’m go­ing to use the term “ca­su­al” or “so­cial gam­ing” to refer to medi­um-scale so­cial gath­er­ings that in­volve video gam­ing; hard­core gam­ing, of course, is all about the game; and we might per­haps call the last group “LAN par­ty gam­ing” to indi­cate a mid­dle ground be­tween ca­su­al gam­ing and su­per-in­tense gam­ing. […]

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