Juan Gril is the head of production at Joju Games, which recently released Fishing Craze. Previously he has worked for Yahoo! Games as lead producer for the downloadable games area and community manager of multi player games. We had a chance to speak to him about the amazing work he’s been doing for casual games.

We’re launching a new feature: a Top 10 Games list! We’ve partnered up with CasualCharts to bring you the best-selling casual games, ranked comprehensively from the top portals (Big Fish, Reflexive, Yahoo, and more). Stay tuned every Saturday for our updated charts!

Developers, Publishers, and Portals

10tons Entertainment
2D Boy
300ad.com
3inabed.com
5th Cell
Abduction Studios
Absolutist
Addicting Games
Addictive 247 Games
Adept Studios
Aisle 5 Games
Alawar Games
Alby Media
Alessi Games
Aliasworlds Entertainment
Alive Games
Alpha 72 Games
Always Neat
Amaranth Games
Anarchy Entertainment
Anawiki
AncientSoft
Andromedus Software
Another Day
AOL Games
AppAbove
Apus Software
Arcade Lab
Arcade Town
Armor Games
Article 19 Group
Astatix
Artogon Games
Aterdux Entertainment
Audio Surf
Awem Studio
Awesome Mega Mighty Games
BadBumble
Bee Games
Beep Industries
Ben Olding Games
Big Blue Bubble Inc.
Big Fish Games
Big Fizz
Big Toe
Blackburst Media
Blackjack Studios
Blazewave
Blippy Games
Blitwise Productions
Blue [...]

It has begun. For years the doom mongers have cried “the time of the independent game developer is gone! Soon all games will be exclusively distributed by portals!” Well, it looks like the world has taken a big step in that direction with the new Myth Match, developed exclusively for Yahoo! Games by Mumbo Jumbo, [...]

GameOn, developer of Fairy Treasure, has been developing casual games since 1998, and we recently got in touch with them to find out how they got where they are today.

Positech Games is the working name for Cliff Harris, an independent game developer based in England. Positech (Cliff) is responsible for half a dozen great indie games, but is best known for the turn-based simulations Kudos and Democracy. He took some time to tell us what it is like building games for the “Hardcore Casual” [...]