Phil Steinmeyer

Through SlashDot, I found a nice little article by Phil Steinmeyer about taking a casual game's art concept through to completion. It's for a casual word game he recently released called Bonnie's Bookstore. The article is a good read, and includes screenshots of discarded designs, which I think is a nice window into the development process.

However, the real gold wasn't in this particular article. His blog tracks things of interest to educational / casual game developers, including recent articles on board games, site traffic to casual game portals, the size of the casual games industry, and the death of children's software. I'll be subscribing to this one.