Fantasy Gaming: From Football to Congress
- Apr 2, 2008 · 6:30 PM
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Garvey Schubert Barer
Fantasy gaming is a $2 billion dollar industry that has greatly affected the way sports games are covered. Not only have they brought statistical analysis to users, but they have also greatly increased engagement. This model has now been employed across many non-sports categories including entertainment, politics, and news. Join Andrew Lee, Co-founder, Publi.us, and creator of Fantasy Congress, as he discusses the world of fantasy gaming, new startups in fantasy, and trends within the industry. As a group we will dig deep and explore also what it takes to produce a fantasy games, some Dos and Don'ts, when best to use this genre as opposed to other genres, and other related questions.
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The presentation on Fantasy Gaming was informative. I was particularly intrigued by Andrew's comments about the fantasy game experience being enhanced by social networking. Either through forums associated with the game, or some IM communication with presence as part of visiting the game site. My perspective is from a "social" MMO game space where people play politics all the time. Although this is often euphemistically labeled drama. We are human players and as humans we have social/pack instincts. So adding a social context to any fantasy game seems to me to be a "good thing".
The pre-meeting conversations were also very good. Thank you Andrew for speaking and Limor for getting us all together.