President of the Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) and CEO of Tantalus, Tom Crago, has made an appearance at Triple R's Byte Into It technology focused radio segment. Tom talks about the upcoming Game Connect: Asia Pacific 2009 which is being held in Melbourne later this year, the trend towards casual gaming, the lack of the R rating classification in Australia, and all the latest at Tantalus.
MB: Do you see the trend towards casual or “snack” type gaming continuing, especially with Apple and the iPhone on the scene?
TC: We have studios here in Australia that are concentrating on that space very, very well. The most successful game on the App store ever was developed here in Melbourne, Flight Control, by Firemint, and Rob Murray who is the CEO of Firemint is going to give a presentation at the conference where he is going to go into what made that game a great success, how much money he spent on it, how much money he made, and the very, very clever way in which those guys marketed that game, to propel it to be, literally the most successful iPhone game, iPhone app, ever.
You can read the transcript of the entire interview at iTWire at the link at the end there, or you can download the 40 minute Byte Into It segment at this address:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/rrrfm/Byte-Into-It-20090805.mp3