The important thing to make a game success is "Know what the player want".
So that why everyone in the games industry is trying to figure out what "the people" want, and Flappy Bird is not an exception.
The big players in the AAA sector believe the people want military
shooters and open-world games full of the old ultra violence. The indie
community believes that what people really want is experimental games
with heart and a unique visual sensibility. And puzzle platformers. And
roguelikes.The mobile and social game companies, like Zynga and King, are of the opinion that people want something inoffensive to click on every now and then, but not too often, unless they’ve got cash to spend.
Recently, the people have spoken, and what they’ve said might come as a shock to many of the prognosticators and taste makers across the video game business. It turns out that what the people really want, for the moment at least, is Flappy Bird.
