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I'm noticing that a good amount of these successful game apps are remakes of popular children games and Milton Bradley games.

Angry Birds - Slingshot Draw Something - Pictionary/Hangman Words with Friends - Scrabble

You'd think that MB would do extremely well with their catalogue of board games.




From what I've seen, classic game makers get obsessed on silliness enabled by the platform. Annoying, repetitive cut-scene animations, for example. Monopoly on the DS was like the website of a retailer (or Homer Simpson) in 1996.

I think independent developers do a better job understanding the platform and how to cut to the fundamentals of the game with the best presentation.




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