Spoon.net Discusses Their Indie Garage Program

A discussion of Spoon.net tools for games as well as their Indie Garage program

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/cc-spoon.mp3

Or listen to it here…

Show Notes:
Interviewer: I’m here at Casual Connect in Seattle, and with me today is a special guest. How about you introduce yourself?

Lee: I am Lee Murphy. I’m the Account Manager with Spoon, and we’re here at Casual Connect showing our Spoon server technology which allows you to deliver applications that normally are installed, in this case, Casual Games.

Normally, they’re installed and we make it possible to run the game without installation. You just click on a link on a web page, and you get your game.

Interviewer: Now, the users who are going to try to access your game under this technology, they’ll still need a plug-in or something, right?

Lee: There is a Spoon plug-in. It’s a browser plug-in at about 2 megabytes. And once you have that, you can play any of the games or any of the software that’s available on Spoon.net. The technology actually available as a Spoon server, so it can be run anywhere.

Interviewer: OK. And do you have like an indie game garage Program. Can you talk about that?

Lee: Sure. We just recently released our indie game garage, which is on the Spoon.net site, and basically it allows indie game developers who are interested in showing their games to a wide audience. We’ll post any games. We configure them so that they can be put onto Spoon.net.

And so, essentially you just have to send us your game, and we’ll put it up on Spoon.net, and then people can play it without installing it.

Interviewer: And is there a charge for it, a price for that?

Lee: No. That’s a free service that we’re offering, just for indie game developers to get their games out there and let people see them. Obviously, we look through the games to make sure they fit what we want to put on the site, but otherwise it’s open to anyone.

Interviewer: OK. Great. Any other last words then for developers out there in terms of how they can benefit from using your stuff?

Lee: Well, I think the biggest benefit is just it avoids the hassles that people normally go through when they’re thinking about whether or not to install a game because it’s really a simple way to just click on the link and try a game and see if they like it.

It’s going to improve conversion rates and gives people the ability to try stuff without having much hassle.

Interviewer: Where can developers find out more information about your service?

Lee: So, on Spoon.net you can actually get free trials of Spoon Server and Spoon Studio. Once you have those, you can use Spoon anywhere.

Interviewer: Thank you very much.