Venture capitalist Tim Chang describes the white-hot landscape of game investments | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi
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The makers of hot pet, farm, fish and city-building games are aggregating large user bases and are turning around to create distribution power. Another new category is “mosolo,” or mobile social local game companies that are doing things such as gamifying Twitter or Google Maps with augmented reality overlays. In terms of local game companies in other parts of the world, Mentez and Vostu are emerging as big players in Brazil, while Kontakti is doing well in Russia. “I invested in Badgeville (pictured) because they are a SaaS platform showing large renewals.” Chang is hopeful that music games will take off, particularly those such as Ubisoft’s RockSmith that teach you how to play a real guitar. Youth edutainment will likely be big, and Chang believes the next Club Penguin (a kids virtual playground now owned by Disney) will happen on a tablet computer.
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