"Casual games" changed my life

[richardhutnik]

Smidlee said:

richardhutnik said:

Chess has been branded by the videogame industry as "casual" as has a lot of other boardgame and cardgame stuff. And there is a degree of irony behind this also.

This is first I read Chess was casual. There are more books written on chess than any other game.  Since chess is one on one, two noobies can play each other because they both suck. Checkers or even Monoploy is a lot more casual than Chess.

The videogame industry takes most boardgames and cardgames and shoves them in the "casual" area.  This is why I say it is ironic.  The videogame industry doesn't consider it "hardcore" at all, eventhough it is very deep.

You see chess pop up on "casual" game sites:

Google search for chess and casual games together