Tag Archives:Social Games
LazyLand: Social Games Without Frontiers share
Through LazyLand platform, game developers are provided with an alternative distribution network and online publishers are able to offer social gaming content to their users with no social infrastructure needed on their behalf.
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Crosswords for Facebook reaches 100,000 users in first month share
NEW YORK – February 15, 2012
PuzzleSocial today announced that Crosswords has achieved 100,000 active users on Facebook in the first month of its beta release. Crosswords is the first social crossword puzzle experience for Facebook, appealing to the roughly 50 million crossword puzzle solvers in the US, and millions more abroad.
“We’re extremely pleased with the level of engagement we have seen throughout the first month of beta testing,” said PuzzleSocial CEO Jeb Balise, “we remain focused on offering daily, relevant, high-quality content from the best constructors in the world alongside innovative social features that will bring people together through the joy of solving.”
Crosswords offers four daily puzzles from the nation’s most published newspaper constructors and features the first ever daily Celebrity puzzle constructed exclusively for the application. Each of these daily puzzles can then be solved via a variety of game types.
Players can choose between the two modes:
For Fun: In this mode there is no timer, wrong answers are shown (optionally) in red, and players can choose to reveal sections of the board where they are stuck.
For Stats: This mode removes all of the hints and shortcuts of the “For Fun” mode and adds a timer to record scores for comparison against players around the world on the leader board.
And between four game types:
Singles: Solve the puzzle alone.
Doubles: Collaborate with a friend to solve the puzzle in real time.
Head to Head: Solve the day’s puzzle in real time against a competitor.
Tournaments: Play against solvers from around the world in a tournament format.
Crosswords can be played at http://apps.facebook.com/crosswordsps
About PuzzleSocial
PuzzleSocial is a social gaming company based in New York, NY. The company is committed to the long-term goal of reinventing audience-driven games, pastimes, and activities across social networks to create richer, more enjoyable gaming experiences.
Crosswords Lands on Facebook share
PuzzleSocial today announced the beta launch of Crosswords, the first social, competitive, multi-player crosswords application for Facebook. The application features the Celebrity Crossword, the first ever daily celebrity crossword puzzle featured exclusively on Facebook and written by the top constructors in the country. In addition to the Celebrity Crossword, PuzzleSocial has secured exclusive agreements to offer three additional daily crosswords on Facebook: The Newsday Crossword, a daily crossword featured in over 200 newspapers and online outlets, the CrosSynergy Crossword, featured in the Washington Post since 1997, and the A.V. Club Crossword, found in the Onion A.V. Club.
Crosswords goes far beyond pencil and paper, offering the choice to play by yourself (singles) or in real time with a partner from anywhere in the world (doubles). If you play “for fun” there is no clock and you can check your answers as you go. If you play “for stats” there is no assistance and your solving times are recorded so you can track improvement over time. Additionally, the application offers singles tournaments (as featured in the movie “Wordplay”), real time doubles tournaments, and real time head-to-head games.
CEO of PuzzleSocial and avid puzzle enthusiast Jeb Balise hopes that “the social and competitive nature of Crosswords will bring the 50 million crossword enthusiasts in the US and millions more around the world closer together through the joy of solving.”
The game is free to play at: http://apps.facebook.com/crosswordsps/
About PuzzleSocial
PuzzleSocial is a social gaming company based in New York, NY. The company is committed to the long-term goal of reinventing audience-driven games, pastimes, and activities across social networks to create richer, more enjoyable gaming experiences.
Source : verticalwire
Bumping Bears iOS and Android Open Beta: Raise Cuddly Bear Cubs in a Delicious Donut Galaxy share
LoadComplete, innovative developers of mobile and social games, today announced the Open Beta of their latest game for iOS and Android, the social virtual pets game Bumping Bears. A free download with additional purchasable content, Bumping Bears features an interactive galaxy of donut and cookie planets inhabited by cuddly bear cubs and their real-life caretakers. With an ultra-cute aesthetic and a wide range of costumes and accessories that can bring a smile to anyone’s face, Bumping Bearsimmerses players in a colorful, customizable world of their very own. Discover it by downloading the Bumping Bears Open Beta now in the Android Market or the App Store.
In Bumping Bears, players take on the role of Bear Guardians, choosing bear cubs to adopt and nurture on their donut planets. Guardians take their bears to work, feed them, tickle them, photograph them, send them on location-based adventures, and tuck them into bed, raising them until they choose a profession and leave for planet Bearth. Then the cycle begins again with a new cuddly cub, letting Guardians raise three bears at any given time as they try to collect all bear professions. The Open Beta also introduces Bear Guardians and their cubs to the unique ways they can engage with other players both on and offline—Bumping Bears brings an exciting type of community interaction that’s yet to be seen in mobile gaming. The official launch of Bumping Bears is scheduled in January with updated features including a mini contest, level system, and much more.
Bumping Bears features:
• Become a Bear Guardian – Nurture bear cubs on your donut planet and earn in-game currency by working, playing mini-games, completing quests, conducting photo-shoots and more.
• Collect All Bear Professions- Your bear’s job is determined by personal experiences. Discover the mix of parenting skills each profession requires or visit friends to share their recipes for success.
• Customize Your Bears – Choose the bears that fit your personality with hilarious and adorable facial features, then pick out clothing and accessories to create some of the over 100,000 looks to make them uniquely yours.
• Meet New Friends! – Take your bear on an online outing and meet other bears (and the humans that care for them) in your area, thanks to location services.
• Playful Graphics – Enjoy the vibrant colors and cute graphics that make the Bumping Bears the perfect place to spend spare time. Daily bonuses ensure you’ll want to check on your bears frequently!
For more information on Bumping Bears, please visit:
- Official website: www.bumpingbears.com
- Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/bumpingbears
- Follow us on Twitter: @BumpingBears
About LoadComplete
Founded in 2009, LoadComplete was created when a variety of game industry professionals joined together to work full-time creating original games. LoadComplete develops mobile and social games any gamer can enjoy. Based in Bundang, South Korea, the company is passionate about providing users with interactive games that reflect the fun and creative spirit of the people who power LoadComplete. For more information, please visit www.loadcomplete.com.
One Million Players Now Tormenting Pygmies share
Pocket God for Facebook adds millionth player to its legion of less than benevolent deities
Frima Studio, in conjunction with Bolt Creative, announced today that the Facebook version of Pocket God now counts more than 1 million unique players amongst its registered ranks of destructive deities. Since its release in December of 2010, Pocket God for Facebook has consistently delivered a uniquely satisfying social experience, building on the wild popularity of the original mobile version. With frequent updates, Pocket God always remains fresh and exciting for even the most veteran players.
No game delivers the satisfaction of omnipotence quite like Pocket God. With absolute control over their cadre of pygmy islanders, players must carefully balance their benevolence with sacrifice to increase their power. As players increase their powers, they earn various currencies to add ever more eccentric ways to go about aiding and tormenting the pygmies, advancing from simply dropping them in deep water to flinging them in to hot volcanoes and submitting them to slow deaths in hot pits of tar.
Shortly before Halloween, Frima released its latest update to Pocket God, maintaining the game’s high standards and longevity with spooky new additions. With the inclusion of magical, pygmy smashing pumpkins and a host of new challenges Pocket God continues its legacy as one of the most successful, multi-platform casual games on the market.
Play the latest version of Pocket God on Facebook here: http://apps.facebook.com/pocketgod/?ref=PREP10
About Frima Studio
Frima is Canada’s leading independent game developer. Since 2003, the company has been developing world-class media including virtual worlds, social and web based games, console titles and mobile apps. Their services also include the animation and special effects expertise of Frima FX as well as the concept art development of Volta. In addition to working with world-renowned clients such as Electronic Arts, Activision, Warner Brothers and Ubisoft, Frima develops successful, original IP titles such as A Space Shooter for Free! and Zombie Tycoon. With over 350 artists and programmers to develop our products, Frima produces high-caliber products that are as remarkably outstanding artistically as they are technically. For more information, please visit www.frimastudio.com.
About Bolt Creative
Bolt Creative is a San Francisco-based developer creating original mobile applications and games, including 2009′s blockbuster iPhone game Pocket God, the third best-selling iPhone app of all-time. Bolt Creative’s goal is to create games that are not only fun to play, but fun to develop and make them laugh. For more information please visit www.boltcreative.com.
Source : verticalwire
PapayaMobile and Tapjoy Announce Partnership to Deliver New Social Marketplace for Mobile App Developers share
PapayaMobile (www.papayamobile.com), the leading mobile social gaming network with over 35 million users, and Tapjoy (www.tapjoy.com), a value exchange mobile ad network, have jointly announced an exclusive partnership to use the power of Papaya’s social community and Tapjoy’s in-app marketplace to create a Social Marketplace for Android app developers. The Social Marketplace will enable players to discover new mobile games based on the popularity of those games within the Papaya social network. By delivering recommendations based on which games a user’s friends are playing, the Social Marketplace will enable consumers to see more relevant and targeted ads, while developers will benefit from enhanced engagement and increased monetization of their apps.
The joint offering will be available to developers by the end of the year. Developers who wish to take advantage of the new Social Marketplace will be able to do so by simply integrating both the Papaya Social SDK and Tapjoy’s Publisher SDK into their apps. The Social Marketplace will suggest games based on their popularity among Papaya friends, as calculated using anonymous data in order to respect player privacy.
“Our entire business is built around delivering as much value to consumers as possible, and clearly there’s considerable value in helping them discover new games based on what their friends are playing,” said Mihir Shah, President and CEO of Tapjoy. “PapayaMobile’s social network has the scale and reach, particularly across the U.S. and China, to help make our ads further targeted and more engaging for users.”
“Tapjoy is the industry leader when it comes to ad networks that deliver proven, effective distribution and monetization,” said Si Shen, CEO and Co-Founder of PapayaMobile. “By teaming with Tapjoy for a Social Marketplace, we’ll be able to offer game developers the very best advertising solution.”
Publishers, advertisers and developers interested in adopting the Social Marketplace should visit http://papayamobile.com and http://tapjoy.com for more information and to sign up.
About PapayaMobile
Founded in 2008 by CEO Si Shen and CTO QianWenjie, PapayaMobile provides both tools for game developers and content for players on its growing social mobile network of over 35 million users worldwide. With headquarters in Beijing and offices in San Francisco and London, PapayaMobile offers developers a fast and easy way to reach millions of users across the globe and improve their return on investment for Android and iOS game development. Players can participate in high quality social mobile gaming experiences with rich community interaction across Papaya’s rapidly growing network of hosted games. http://papayamobile.com/developer
About Tapjoy
Tapjoy is a value exchange mobile ad network whose unique Mobile Value Exchange™ model allows users to select personalized advertisements with which to engage for virtual currency or premium content. Tapjoy helps unlock mobile joy by empowering more than 280 million mobile users who choose to watch videos, subscribe to services, install applications and participate in other types of advertisements in exchange for virtual currency they can use in their favorite apps. Tapjoy’s turnkey in-app advertising platform helps developers acquire cost-effective, high-value new users and monetize their applications, while its powerful advertising marketplace lets brand advertisers reach a global mobile audience spanning more than 10,000 applications. Tapjoy is backed by top-tier investors including J.P.Morgan Asset Management, Rho Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, InterWest Partners and D.E. Shaw Ventures. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company also has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.tapjoy.com.
Buddy Rush’s Website now Featuring Cute, Player-created Art share
Team Sollmo, the game development group of app and game publisher Company100, Inc., today announced that the website for its popular, cross-platform RPG Buddy Rush has been revamped and now features an extensive collection of fan-created Buddy Rush art. The collection, which includes art created by Team Sollmo in addition to submissions from the game’s community of devout fans, displays illustrations and a reimagining of the game’s cute and zany characters. Visit the new website to check out the art collection, and listen to Buddy Rush’spreviously released soundtrack at: http://buddyrush.sollmo.com/.
Buddy Rush is a single-player, free-to-play RPG featuring social elements which allow players to take their Facebook Friends’ characters adventuring along with their own custom character as computer-controlled allies. Players and their party of friends will go adventuring on Missions, battling cute Oblins and other monsters, gathering loot, gaining experience points and leveling up while progressing through the game’s chapters. Frequently updated since its initial release, Buddy Rush currently features 92 missions over ten chapters, 15 characters with unique skillsets and over 2,000 items.
To play Buddy Rush, download the game to your Android v2.2+ device from the Android Market, visit Facebook, or download to your iOS device from the iTunes App Store.
Buddy Rush is also the proud winner of the 2011 Unity Award for Best Cross-platform Game.
For more information on Buddy Rush, please visit the official website at http://buddyrush.sollmo.com,visit the game’s Facebook Page, and follow @BuddyRush on Twitter.
About Team Sollmo
Team Sollmo is the game development arm of leading iOS games and app publisher Company100, based in South Korea. Developers of inventive mobile apps, Company100’s ultimate goal is to improve the quality of human life by enabling rich, easy and fast mobile internet. Team Sollmo is committed to continuing Company100’s tradition of innovative design and technical expertise, and was formed in March 2010 to build on their personal passions for gaming. The team’s first game is Buddy Rush, a free-to-play, cross-platform, casual RPG for Facebook, iOS and Android.
Social Games for the Mobile Device [Event] share
| Date & Time: | Tuesday, November 8, 2011 6:30 PM |
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| Location: | Fenwick & West 801 California Ave Mountain View, Ca view map |
| More Info: | jhtc.org |
What are the key factors driving this rapid growth? What are the trends to watch? And what can we learn from early adoption in other markets?At tonight’s event, Ron Czerny, Founder and CEO of PlayPhone a key player in the industry, will discuss the market and ecosystem of social gaming for mobile devices. He will share success stories from other more advanced markets like Japan, and discuss the potential in North America and elsewhere.
Ron’s presentation will also highlight a case study of the PlayPhone Social Gaming Network application called “PlayPhone Orbit”. PlayPhone Orbit will be the first true cross platform mobile social gaming network for smartphones globally.
Ron Czerny, Founder and CEO of PlayPhone
![Social Games for the Mobile Device [Event]](http://images.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/186/487/18648708-1075-4aee-ab6e-21528d081857 "Ron Czerny")
Fenwick & West, 801 California St. Mt. View, CA
Free to members – join @ jhtc.org/
$15 by 11/7; $25 at door; $5 students/seniors
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Pocket God on Facebook Gets Halloween Update share
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year…for Dispatching Pygmies—Pocket God on Facebook Gets Halloween Update
Latest Content Expansion Adds Spooky New Global Challenge and Quests
Frima Studio, Canada’s leading independent game developer, in conjunction with Bolt Creative, a San Francisco-based developer of original mobile applications, announced today that Pocket God for Facebook is being updated with ghoulish new quests and powers, introducing even more devastating and comical ways to keep the hapless pygmies of your island in line. It’s always more fun to trick them instead of treating them anyway, right?
In anticipation of the mischievous holiday, Pocket God on Facebook now features a new Global Challenge for all players; the great Jack-o’-Pygmy wants pumpkins everywhere for Halloween and he needs the help of players worldwide! To assist the rogue pumpkin, a new god power has been added for all Halloween-loving deities—a magical pumpkin plant that transforms pygmies into pumpkins when their fruits are consumed. Alternatively, when pumpkins from this magical vine are left on the ground, they double in size and can be used to squash even more poor natives. In addition to the pumpkin madness sweeping the island, seven new solo quests have been added, providing even the most veteran players an all-new experience.
To see all of the new features check out Pocket God on Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/pocketgod/?ref=PREP10
About Frima Studio
Frima is a prominent game developer based in Quebec City, Canada. Since 2003, the company has been developing countless worldclass products for the Web, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 system, PlayStation Portable, DS, Facebook, iPhone, iPad, TV and mobile markets. Frima’s clients include world-renowned names such as Electronic Arts, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Warner Brothers and Nickelodeon. With over 350 artists and programmers to develop our products, Frima produces high-caliber games that are as remarkably outstanding artistically as they are technically. For more information, please visit www.frimastudio.com.
About Bolt Creative
Bolt Creative is a San Francisco-based developer creating original mobile applications and games, including 2009′s blockbuster iPhone game Pocket God, the third best-selling iPhone app of all-time. Bolt Creative’s goal is to create games that are not only fun to play, but fun to develop and make them laugh. For more information please visit www.boltcreative.com.
Dissolve Pygmies with Magical Rainbow Farts! share
Frima Studio, Canada’s leading independent game developer, announced today in conjunction with Bolt Creative, a San Francisco-based developer of original mobile applications and games that the harassed pygmies of Pocket God for Facebook have something new to worry about, flatulence. This latest update to Pocket God brings a new power to the store, a gaseous unicorn that impales pygmies before dissolving them with magic rainbow farts!
Additionally, players will find an all new social quest, challenging them to defeat the Night Mare with friends to gain a new rival god idol. Finally, there’s more incentive than ever to login and play. Each login now earns players a Daily Reward that progressively becomes more awesome with consecutive days of play, culminating in unique new customization items.
Bonus: This week only, new players have the opportunity to earn 1000 bonus bones (a $32 value) by becoming the millionth registered user!
To see all of the new features check out Pocket God on Facebook athttp://apps.facebook.com/pocketgod/?ref=PREP10
About Frima Studio
Frima is a prominent game developer based in Quebec City, Canada. Since 2003, the company has been developing countless worldclass products for the Web, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 system, PlayStation Portable, DS, Facebook, iPhone, iPad, TV and mobile markets. Frima’s clients include world-renowned names such as Electronic Arts, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Warner Brothers and Nickelodeon. With over 330 artists and programmers to develop our products, Frima produces high-caliber games that are as remarkably outstanding artistically as they are technically. For more information, please visit www.frimastudio.com.
About Bolt Creative
Bolt Creative is a San Francisco-based developer creating original mobile applications and games, including 2009′s blockbuster iPhone game Pocket God, the third best-selling iPhone app of all-time. Bolt Creative’s goal is to create games that are not only fun to play, but fun to develop and make them laugh. For more information please visitwww.boltcreative.com.
