Hidden Object Games

At this day and age, its almost like everyone can find a video game niche they can be interested in

. The casual gamer is probably fastest growing demographic online. The reason this is happening is because there seems to be more and more games being developed that cater to growing number of people who are being introduced to the internet. When this happens, niches are formed, and a growing niche that becoming ever so popular is that of Hidden Object Games and/or Difference Games.

Hidden Object Games target these casual players who like to spend their free time by idly dabbling in something a little girly with calming music. The content usually includes serene or mysterious places that you search for valuables or other artifacts. These places could be attics, ancient ruins, gardens, libraries, forests, fantasy lands, or far off worlds. You then have a outline of things to find, and once you find them, you click on them to take them off the list. The characters often need to find certain items to escape a maze or search out clues to solve a mystery or crime of some sort. Now that we know what these games entail, lets take a look at their history.

The origins of this niche date back to the eighties, nineties, or maybe even decades earlier. People of all ages and skill levels would test their wits while searching for specific items or people in a crowded scene full of all kinds of crazy drawn characters who were in the midst of some sort of chaotic circumstances. After that, this pastime turned mostly to children as its main audience with merchandisers filling the shelves of bookstores with these kinds of books featuring just about any popular character from a childs favorite movie or TV series. However, now we are in the era most people can find what they want straight from their web browser where virtually anything is possible, and adults (especially middle aged women) are back in the hunt for Hidden Object Games that feature content in which they might find an interest.

The above argument that this niche is made up of mostly middle aged women can be proven by the fact that the majority of the content of these games includes themes that women would most likely find appealing. While there are exceptions to these kinds of themes, most emphasize country homes, romance, fantasy, shopping centers, and women defined by courageous or heroic roles. If game designers had the goal of catching the attention of a different demographic, the exceptions of violence, suspense, and slapstick humor would more likely outnumber the above described topics.

Difference Games are mentioned above as being the same or at least very similar to Hidden Object Games. The object here is to look at two very detailed pictures next to each other and search each to see what makes them different from one another. These can be paintings, photographs, or what appears to be illustrations from simple greeting cards. The player is usually being timed as they scour the screen for a certain number of differences. Some have the player follow a storyline as they go from screen to screen to keep it interesting as though they were actually accomplishing something by finding the variants between them.

by: Dundee Phelpsmead

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