There’s a perception by some that breaking into the Facebook gaming scene is very hard between powerhouses like Zynga or EA Playfish. However, director of game partnerships at Facebook Sean Ryan says that there are over 375 games with more than 100,000 monthly active users and Facebook developers in 190 countries.
It s not a market where 10 apps get all of the users, Ryan recently said at Casual Connect. The market is growing like crazy and you can participate in it.
He noted the burgeoning potential for casino games, strategy titles, hunting games, fishing games, religious titles, fighting games, and more adding that the romance game category is a potential target with $1.5 billion in the entertainment market not being currently catered to. If you are not building social games, then you are not building games for the majority of the market. You are building games for a shrinking market, he said. It s easy to forget that this market is less than four years old. It s too late to clone a game that is a clone of another game, but there is plenty of opportunity.
Source: VentureBeat
