The other blog linked here is about a few fresh ways to look at the ecenomics as the new expansion draws near. This and more about the relaxing repetitiveness of grinding gold can be read at the world of warcraft ecenomics blog.

Online Games, or Browser Games, give us hobbyist a whole new set of tools to dabble with. And now we can create smaller and simpler games and still reach a large, or relatively large, audience.  Thus the popularity of php and sql driven games and flash games.

Now we can sit down, create a small game. Publish that game and continue developing as we learn more and more. With the traditional programming you had to be a really accomplished programmer (ie a professional) to be able to create something worth distributing.

Why? It’s a matter of cost/benefit for the player. He can easily play my small little game on my web-page, but he wont bother to download something that probably isn’t all that good. Thus, the presentation and distribution of web-games is the main thing for reaching large audiences.

But what are all the people sitting in front of their computers really looking for? Puzzle games? Empire building games? Reviews? There is no way to know. But I would sure like to.