{"id":127,"date":"2007-08-13T12:45:34","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T12:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/user\/mrcranky\/127"},"modified":"2007-11-12T10:53:30","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T10:53:30","slug":"intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Deering introed the conference (albeit with it&#8217;s old monicker, Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival, but we can forgive him that. Prior to introing the keynote speaker, there was a bit of quiz-the-audience with the fancy voting devices they&#8217;d issued us. The gist of the results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sector likely to experience most growth in the next year: spread results, favouring casual, handheld, mobile and MMO. Few people liked packaged console or PC titles to grow.<\/li>\n<li>Genre likely to experience most growth: Virtual life (a la Second Life or Home) topped the poll, with music titles a strong second. Not sure if I agree with that assessment, but that&#8217;s probably reflective of the general sentiment that virtual online communities are going to grow in popularity generally.<\/li>\n<li>Percentage of overall revenue to come from online (downloadables, subscription, ad-revenue, etc.): 20-40%. Fair enough &#8211; it&#8217;s definitely growing and becoming far more relevant, not just in our industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Deering introed the conference (albeit with it&#8217;s old monicker, Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival, but we can forgive him that. Prior to introing the keynote speaker, there was a bit of quiz-the-audience with the fancy voting devices they&#8217;d issued us. The gist of the results: Sector likely to experience most growth in the next year: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[24],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sg1JR-intro","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}