Today, I got a chance to play/watch the Wii version of that Tower of Goo game that was discussed in class. It was really fun, particularly in a social setting where everyone could yell out where the tower had to be supported and reinforced. I thought that it was a really cool application of a casual game, where it could be controlled by one player, but many others could be participating through suggestions and pointers. Of course, this depends on the player being open to suggestion, and the frantic method of the game did bring out some tension as the player tried to complete the levels, but trading around the controller at least spread this out a little.
Playing the game on a nice (probably 60") TV definitely helped. It gave me a bit of an idea: playing casual games such as this on a large projector, maybe even as large as a movie theatre. I know that arcades are going the way of the dodo with the prevalence of powerful consoles and PC's, but this kind of social game would be really fun in a social setting such as that. Maybe a business opportunity exists there.
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Participation is a good idea--I wonder if the usual nature of casual games as web-based or mobile limits their ability to draw on this. A TV screen is easier to all hunker around.
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