As you can tell from the name, Amazon Game Studio is a game studio owned by Amazon. This game studio is Amazon’s step to be involved in the gaming business. Amazon Game Studio even already released a Facebook based social game, Living Classics in a post on Hello Word.
Amazon chose social game because it targets Amazon’s customers which play games, including free social game. By releasing this social game first, the promotion about the game quality made by Amazon will be easily spread. Next, Amazon will release a mobile game which can be played on Amazon Kindle tablet. Releasing a game is Amazon’s way to strengthen its platform.
Living Classics tells a story of a family of foxes which enters the world of classic stories such as Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and King Arthur. In those worlds, player will help to reunite the fox family members by identifying moving objects in a scene illustration. With that game play, Amazon calls this game as a “moving object game”.
According to VentureBeat, Amazon, which has been distributing apps and games for Android through Amazon appstore, stakes its reputation as a distributor by establishing its own game studio. Now, in its position as producer as well as distributor, other game producers won’t see it as a neutral game distributor.
To take a look on the first game made by Amazon Game Studio, you can try to play Living Classics on this page.
