日前，刚成立不久的手机社交游戏公司SGN创始人及董事长Shervin Pishevar宣布，推出该公司第一款iPhone社交游戏《迷你大亨赌场》（Mini Tycoon Casino）。据悉，尽管SGN这一名称代表社交游戏网站（Social Games Network）的意思，但该公司之前推出的应用多属动作类游戏，仅含微量的社交特征。

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Pishevar表示，为保证手机社交游戏的质量，SGN在这款游戏的开发上耗时将近一年之久。他认为手机平台上的社交游戏，比Facebook或其他社交网站上的游戏更有用户基础。

据称，《迷你大亨赌场》采用了基本的社交游戏模式，玩家可以成立自己的赌场，通过布置老虎机和双骰子赌桌，盖过朋友赌场的风头，玩家之间还可以互访对方的赌场。

SGN's CEO Shervin Pishevar

该游戏已提交至苹果应用商店，是一款免费应用，但支持玩家为自己的赌场购买虚拟道具。Pishevar还预计，该游戏每月有望创收100万美元，并表示SGN已计划推出其他迷你大亨游戏系列。（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译）

SGN readies its first social game for the iPhone

Gaming startup SGN already offers a bunch of games on the iPhone, but despite the company’s name (the letters stand for Social Games Network), those games have mostly been in the action genre until now, with minimal social capabilities. Today SGN founder and chairman Shervin Pishevar demonstrated the company’s first social game for the iPhone, Mini Tycoon Casino.

Pishevar said the company has spent an unusually long time developing the game — about a year — to ensure that it really “raised the bar” for social gaming on your phone. Pishevar said social games could reach an even bigger audience on phones than what they’ve found on Facebook and other social networks.

You can judge the results for yourself in the video below, which shows some of the basic interactions in the game. It follows the basic social games model — players build their own casino, “planting” items like slot machines and craps tables, then trying to top their friends’ casinos, which they can visit in the game. The real work was building the rich graphics, as well as the infrastructure for a massive user base, Pishevar said.

The game will be submitted to Apple’s App Store today. It will be free, but users can pay to buy virtual items for their casinos. SGN estimates the game could bring in $1 million a month in revenue, Pishevar said. There are plans to release other Mini Tycoon games, too.（source:venturebeat）