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Tower Defense Creators Launch Flash Games Portal
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today — The creators of popular casual Flash games Desktop Tower Defense and Flash Element TD, Paul Preece and David Scott, have revealed Casual Collective , a free-to-play social web gaming site featuring the latest titles from the pair. The new site will feature an ongoing stream of new, Flash-based titles. Launch games for the site include Casual Collective CEO Preece s own Desktop Tower Defense 1.9, which includes multiplayer capabilities. Also available will be multiplayer head-to-head game Minions, multiplayer word game Farragomate, and platformer Buggle Stars. According to ...

Interview: Flash Tower Defense Creators On VC Deal, Social Gaming Site
Worlds In Motion — ... Successful Flash game developers Paul Preece and David Scott have launched Casual Collective, a new free-to-play social gaming site, and have received $1 million in funding from investment firm Lightspeed Venture Partners. ...

'Desktop Tower Defense' Creator Paul Preece Launches New Casual Games Site
G4 TV - TheFeed — ... reports that Paul Preece, creator of the frickin' awesome Desktop Tower Defense, has launced a new site called The Casual Collective. According to GigaOm's Wagner James Au: ...

Casual Collective Formed by Tower Defense Veterans
GameDaily BIZ Features Feed — Today, Desktop Tower Defense and Flash Element TD creators Paul Preece and David Scott announced the launch of Casual Collective . The free-to-play social gaming site will feature a variety of games created by the pair of designers. "Our games have done very well and we were able to quit our jobs based on the ad revenue. We knew each other before we launched the site, which helped in getting it up quickly," said Preece to GameDaily BIZ . "The core idea of what we're doing is building on the success of our previous casual games. Flash games can pick up steam quickly and our ...

Desktop Tower Defense creators found Casual Collective
Joystiq — ... We really wanted to tell you about Casual Collective, the new casual portal founded by indie devs Paul Preece and David Scott. We want to tell you, but, unfortunately, we haven't had time to read about it ourselves. Why the sudden sloppiness on our part? Well, ...

Game Diary - November 19, 2008: I Need A Challenger
MTV Multiplayer — [image] If you’re reading this, you could have helped me yesterday. You could have helped me make Tuesday a gaming day. I thought I wasn’t going to have enough time to play anything. But then I remembered, when I had a free half hour between work and an evening appointment, that I could, and should, log on to Casual Collective , the brand new website run by the guy who made my 2008 Game of the Year, “Desktop Tower Defense ,” and his development partner. What they’ve concocted is a Facebook-inspired site for their Flash games, the roster of which includes multiplayer ‘Desktop ...

Game Diary - November 20, 2008: The Best Super-Hero Game Ever?
MTV Multiplayer — [image] I’m short on time this morning, so I need to make this brief. The “Desktop Tower Defense” challenge didn’t go so well yesterday. Multiplayer gaming on Casualcollective.com is still a bit buggy. But I’ll be back on there hopefully tomorrow to see if it’s improving. I can confirm that the people I did face-off with on the game over there did not beat me. Last night I started “Spider-Man: Web of Shadows ,” which a friend told me is the best super-hero game ever made. If that’s the case, then the best super-hero game ever made has poor voice-acting, clunky graphics, and a ...

Desktop Tower Defense Devs Release Four New Games
The Escapist : Latest News — The Desktop Tower Defense duo have opened a website with four original titles and all the latest Web 2.0 upgrades a community flash games portal requires. Partners Paul Preece and David Scott injected an addictive Flash virus into the internet last year with Desktop Tower Defense . Since the games's rise to popularity online, the developers have been working on four more titles that they've now released on Casual Collective , a host for the team's projects and those uploaded by the community. Similar to Flash game portals ...

11/21/2008 Game Development Inter-web mash up: Nov 20, 2008
8bitrocket.com Blog — ... This time we cover The Casual Collective; Playing Flash games at Maximum Size; A fantastic Atari ST Remake; Smart Game Interface Choices; Kongregate's Kred system; Box2d Tutorials; The 25 Line Actionscript Contest; Getting Started with Flex Game Development; A Papervision tutorial; Making Money With Web Games; A Silverlight Shootorial and more... The Casual Collective A portal from the creators of the massively successful Desktop Tower Defense and Flash Element TD called the Casual Collective has been launched. It seems to have been up in at least a beta form for a few ...

Flash Tower Defense Creators Launch Casual Collective
GameDev.Net — ... play, and participate in live chat/forums within a robust community of gamers. Co-founded by Paul Preece and David Scott, Casual Collective features a series of new indie games, now available on the site, as well as across the Web at Kongregate, Addicting Games, Hall Pass, Newgrounds, and I-Am-Bored.com, to name a few. Based in Berkshire, England, Casual Collective is funded by leading venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners. For more information, visit Casual Collective at: www.casualcollective.com

Casual Collective: The Bane of Productivity
Inside Social Games — ... Anyone who spends any significant amount of time on the web has probably been a victim of it. It spreads like a virus and feeds on the productivity of the world. It is the bane the world loves to hate, or perhaps… hates to love. It is the casual game, and two men involved with sucking up over 10 million hours of time, Paul Preece and David Scott, have just created their own company, ...

My 2008 Miscellaneous Gaming Playlist (16 played, 3 finished)
MTV Multiplayer — ... other odds and ends. What did I play? And which three games did I finish? Take a look below: My 2008 Miscellaneous Playlist (Games I completed are italicized) 1) Audiosurf - This indie favorite is a puzzle game that looks like a racing game. And it shapes its levels to the contours of the rhythms of songs saved on your computer. 2) Bejeweled Twist - Perhaps the biggest game release of 2009 on any platform. Really. 3) Buggle Stars - This free Flash platformer can be played on CasualCollective.com . It’s one of the better ways to goof off at work. 4) Crysis - I finally ...

Indie Developers Showcase, Day 8: Minions
The Escapist : Latest News — ... to Day Eight of The Escapist 's Indie Developer Showcase, a 10-day celebration of the designers and programmers who have struck out on their own to make the games they want to make. Each day we'll feature a new game or demo by an up-and-coming indie developer along with a brief interview. Some games are already commercially available, some are works in progress, but all are free to play. To see who's on the schedule or check out what you've missed, click here . Enjoy! image Even if you've never heard of Paul Preece or David Scott, the co-founders of Casual ...

The Space Game
Jay is Games — ... of The Casual Collective has either the most generic title ever, or the most confident. You see, it's not just some space game, it's not one of those space games, no, it's ...

The Space Game
Play This Thing — ... The Space Game begins with two inaccuracies: It is created by The Casual Collective, and it is not a casual game; and the developers bill it as an RTS, which it is not. It is, however, a good game. ...

Interesting Metrics From Flash Gaming Summit
Inside Social Games — ... ad units on a portal page, having 3-4 ads per page, as well as simply getting the user to play more games on your portal. The message was heard loud and clear by flash game developers that it is going to be very difficult for them to make serious money from their games without building their own portal or partnering with existing portals (through revenue share or sponsorship agreements). Conversion Rate of Active to Paid Players Both Paul Preece from Casual Collective and Daniel James from Three Rings shared some interesting stats from ...

2008 Funding for Games & Virtual Worlds Totals Just Under $1 Billion
Inside Social Games — ... for game-interface technology 85. Iminlikewithyou – $1.5 million for social games (now named OMGPOP) 86. Gamook — $1.5 million for online games 87. Shidonni — $1.5 million; launches drawing site for kids 88. Atomic Moguls — $1 million for fantasy sports games 89. Jambool — $1 million for virtual goods platform for social games 90. Virtual Tweens — $1 million for green virtual world for kids 91. Casual Collective — $1 million and launches Flash games 92. ...