June 3rd, 2010
As John Radoff so effectively summarized, social games aren’t new – in fact, they began about 5000 years ago and they’re just games you play with other people. That said, he provided a very nice graphical history of social games and his taxonomy separates current social games into Strategy, Sim, RPG, and “experiences” (music, pets, etc.). As one reviewer noted:
“…Not a bad set of categories — and note that this includes some social games as descendants of MMOs and VWs as they descended from paper RPGs and MUDs. I’m particularly interested in the potentially convergent growth of RPGs (Mafia Wars, etc.) and Sim games (Farmtown, Social City), and whether both can interweave well with some kinds of strategy games. Are these kinds of games sufficiently social that as they evolve they can support hybrids and cross-overs, or are we more or less stuck with these genres.
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