Big Fish Games steps into Casual MMOs big time

Congrats! The news is out that Seattle-based casual MMO Thinglefin has been acquired by casual games publisher Big Fish Games. Thinglefin was founded early this year by Asheron's Call Lead Designer Toby Ragaini, Jeremy Friesen and Ryan O’Rourke. Big Fish is a casual games publisher, and their President Jeremy Lewis runs it as one of those quiet companies that kicks ass month after month without having to scream about it at every conference.

They are still in stealth mode, but are working on a web-based casual MMO that obviously Big Fish thought highly of. With the huge number of casual MMOs in development right now, getting distribution is key to rise above the noise. With combination of the development team at Thinglefin, and the distribution muscle of casual games publisher Big Fish, they should be someone to closely watch.

I met Toby about a year ago as he was starting up Thinglefin, and he was nice enough to give me a couple-hour headstart in announcing their VC funding to the blogosphere. I will claim my very insignificant part in all of this, as I introduced Toby and Jeremy a few months back. Clearly, they got along. :)

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[diane kotila]

I have a big fish club membership but every time I enter my information, even though they are the ones putting in my password, I can't access my account because they keep telling me I have the wrong password even though I've been using it for over a year.

My email address has changed and I have no way to contat them. There is nowhere on any of their sites that has a way you can contact them without your password. I'm frustrated because I have already paid for more games but can't get on the sight.

Diane Kotila