May 2

g4What is a casual online gamer? If your eyes are bloodshot from staring into your computer screen, your fingers cramped and callous from pounding on the keyboard, you have notches carved on the side of your desk for all your ‘kills’, delivery food boxes are scattered all around your desk and you haven’t slept in weeks, you are not a casual online gamer.

What Are Some Casual Games?

Casual online gamers are NOT concerned with fighting, high adventure, kills, captures, weapons, gangs and so on. Casual games don’t require long-term commitment of any kind and can be started and stopped pretty much at leisure without any severe consequences (like losing your entire squadron to a dirty bomb). Casual online gamers enjoy things like puzzles, board games (bored games), casinos (strictly for fun of course), arcade games, card games and some sports. Boxing, cage fighting and wrestling might not be the kind of sports your basic casual online gamer would enjoy. If sitting down and playing a game of scrabble with a friend or three is your idea of an exciting evening, you could probably consider yourself the casual gamer. I’m not saying you’re boring, I’d never say that.

Casual Games Shared With Others For the Sake Of Sharing

Casual gamers enjoy the ease and simplicity of casual gaming. Likewise, ‘social games’ – basically someone came up with games designed to be playable within already established major community networking websites — seem ready to set off a revolution in the online entertainment industry just like the one formerly started by the casual game downloads. The online competitions that use social connections have spawned any number upon number of like social networking sites.

Whether you’re passing away the hours on a quiet afternoon casually enjoying a game of solitaire or sharing a casual game with a network of your friends, your choices are many.