Mobcast 96: Indie games, microtransactions, Facebook, and more

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Monday, March 14, 2011

In this week's episode of the Mobcast, Night Owl Games Art Director Peter Franco, PopCap Editorial and Social Media Director Jeff Green, and Community Director for Microsoft Connected Experiences Kathleen Sanders join Bitmob's Dan Hsu.

The group discusses their favorite indie titles, the migration of celebrated developers to Facebook, microtransactions, and how consumers assign dollar values to games.

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March 14, 2011

@shoe,

Surprised you haven't heard of Recettear. There's a number of articles on bitmob about it. Other than Minecraft, it's one of the biggest indie surprises of 2010. An indie game from Japan localized by a brand new indie localizer managed to sell more than 100k copies on the PC in the US.

 

http://www.bitmob.com/articles/recettear-a-trail-for-foreign-licenses

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