If you've played Chocolatier on Facebook, then you're probably more than familiar with the game's uncanny ability to make you want to go out and buy actual chocolate. There's just something about stirring vats of virtual chocolate and putting it on display in your oh-so quaint shop that makes you want to nibble on bon-bons while you work.
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Chocolatier is now taking its role as a chocolate enabler much more seriously, as the game announces a partnership with the San Francisco-based Charles' Chocolates. Now you can make virtual versions of the brands more popular "creations" and buy real-life versions of the same chocolates at a 10% discount until December 31 from inside the game. So much for that pre-holiday diet.
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
March Madness Facebook Game Showdown: Round 2
Games.com The Blog is having it's own March Madness tournament. Instead of college basketball teams going head to head, we're pitting the top sixteen Facebook games against each other. Over the weekend we ran our first round of the tournament. Games were seeded one through sixteen based on the number of daily active users on March 17th (St. Patrick's Day!) The top seeded games had the most daily players with the lowest seeded games having the least.
The March Madness Facebook Game Showdown is on to round two! In the first round the higher seeded games (the games with more players) easily trounced their lesser seeded opponents, except for one! One of our match ups there was an upset!
The fading Facebook game super star game Pet Society by Playfish, was able to narrowly defeat Zynga's Cafe World. Pet Society one by the narrow margin of 54% to 46% .
The second round match ups are set! And this time it will be brother against brother as many second round match ups involve Zynga games verses Zynga games. I wonder if the developers will be able to chose between their babies.
The first match up is a biggie. Number one contender CityVille verses old time favorite Mafia Wars. This one should be very close.
(1) CityVille vs. (8) Mafia Wars
(8) Mafia Wars(1) CityVille
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The tough battles continue in the four verse five match up. FrontierVille and Bejeweled Blitz bring two different types of players to the table. Who's style will win out? Will it be the frontier or the arcade explosions who win out?
(4) FrontierVille vs. (5) Bejeweled Blitz
(4) FrontierVille(5) Bejeweled Blitz
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The battle for Zynga supremacy rolls on. The super heavy weight FarmVille goes up against the scappy Treasure Isle. FarmVille has a huge advantage in experience and players but Treasure Isle is a unique game that has a loyal following. Can Treasure Isle pull off the upset?
(2) FarmVille vs. (7) Treasure Isle
(7) Treasure Isle(2) FarmVille
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The cinderralla story of the tournament so far is Pet Society. The eleven seeded Pet Society goes up against the war horse of Zynga Poker. Can the cute Pets upset the poker faced Zynga Poker? Vote early and vote often to see who comes out on top.
(3) Zynga Poker vs. (11) Pet Society
11) Pet Society(3) Zynga Poker
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The March Madness Facebook Game Showdown is on to round two! In the first round the higher seeded games (the games with more players) easily trounced their lesser seeded opponents, except for one! One of our match ups there was an upset!
The fading Facebook game super star game Pet Society by Playfish, was able to narrowly defeat Zynga's Cafe World. Pet Society one by the narrow margin of 54% to 46% .
The second round match ups are set! And this time it will be brother against brother as many second round match ups involve Zynga games verses Zynga games. I wonder if the developers will be able to chose between their babies.
The first match up is a biggie. Number one contender CityVille verses old time favorite Mafia Wars. This one should be very close.
(1) CityVille vs. (8) Mafia Wars
(8) Mafia Wars(1) CityVille
VoteView ResultsShare ThisPolldaddy.com
The tough battles continue in the four verse five match up. FrontierVille and Bejeweled Blitz bring two different types of players to the table. Who's style will win out? Will it be the frontier or the arcade explosions who win out?
(4) FrontierVille vs. (5) Bejeweled Blitz
(4) FrontierVille(5) Bejeweled Blitz
VoteView ResultsShare ThisPolldaddy.com
The battle for Zynga supremacy rolls on. The super heavy weight FarmVille goes up against the scappy Treasure Isle. FarmVille has a huge advantage in experience and players but Treasure Isle is a unique game that has a loyal following. Can Treasure Isle pull off the upset?
(2) FarmVille vs. (7) Treasure Isle
(7) Treasure Isle(2) FarmVille
VoteView ResultsShare ThisPolldaddy.com
The cinderralla story of the tournament so far is Pet Society. The eleven seeded Pet Society goes up against the war horse of Zynga Poker. Can the cute Pets upset the poker faced Zynga Poker? Vote early and vote often to see who comes out on top.
(3) Zynga Poker vs. (11) Pet Society
11) Pet Society(3) Zynga Poker
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Please vote early and vote often. Share this page with your friends and vote your favorite game to victory!
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Disney-branded Facebook games coming in 2012, Playdom head says
Can we all just say, “finally?” During a panel named “The Rise of Social Games” at the f8 Facebook Developers Conference in San Francisco, Disney Interactive and Playdom head John Pleasants revealed that two to four Facebook games surrounding Disney xd brands will hit Facebook in 2012. The general topic of the panel was the fact that branded social games are taking off.
Pleasants was joined on the panel by Kabam CEO Kevin Chou, EA Interactive head Barry Cottle and Zynga CBO Owen Van Natta. Facebook director of games partnerships Sean Ryan moderated the panel with the preface that branded games will take over the Facebook platform. And he might be right: EA just released The Sims Social, Zynga will soon re-brand its new Adventure World with Indiana Jones and Kabam recently announced The Godfather: Five Families.
Playdom, which Disney acquired in July 2010 for a whopping $740 million, is ahead of the pack with two branded games on Facebook: ESPNU College Town and ESPN Sports Bar & Grill. Both games performed well, thanks to advertising through the ESPN TV network. While Disney owns the ESPN brand, notice how neither of those actually involve the insanely popular Disney characters we’ve come to love.
Honestly, we’re surprised this didn’t happen sooner. Consider this: Disney has its own cable TV channel through which it could, in theory, advertise whatever it wants. Pleasants didn’t get into why it’s taken this long for disney channel games to throw its cast of characters into Facebook games, but did reveal the power of the Disney name.
Gnome Town, which Playdom launched in the summer–and we enjoyed quite a bit–peaked at 530,000 daily players. But just plopping the Disney logo on top of the existing one made users more likely to spend in the game just through trust of the company’s name, according to Pleasants. “We think it’s an advantage, if you put game play first,” Pleasants said.
It’s comforting to hear this emphasized by these developers. (Kabam’s Chou shared the same sentiment.) Branded games on Facebook are OK in my book, but the last thing anyone wants to see is the genre become a branding machine.
Pleasants was joined on the panel by Kabam CEO Kevin Chou, EA Interactive head Barry Cottle and Zynga CBO Owen Van Natta. Facebook director of games partnerships Sean Ryan moderated the panel with the preface that branded games will take over the Facebook platform. And he might be right: EA just released The Sims Social, Zynga will soon re-brand its new Adventure World with Indiana Jones and Kabam recently announced The Godfather: Five Families.
Playdom, which Disney acquired in July 2010 for a whopping $740 million, is ahead of the pack with two branded games on Facebook: ESPNU College Town and ESPN Sports Bar & Grill. Both games performed well, thanks to advertising through the ESPN TV network. While Disney owns the ESPN brand, notice how neither of those actually involve the insanely popular Disney characters we’ve come to love.
Honestly, we’re surprised this didn’t happen sooner. Consider this: Disney has its own cable TV channel through which it could, in theory, advertise whatever it wants. Pleasants didn’t get into why it’s taken this long for disney channel games to throw its cast of characters into Facebook games, but did reveal the power of the Disney name.
Gnome Town, which Playdom launched in the summer–and we enjoyed quite a bit–peaked at 530,000 daily players. But just plopping the Disney logo on top of the existing one made users more likely to spend in the game just through trust of the company’s name, according to Pleasants. “We think it’s an advantage, if you put game play first,” Pleasants said.
It’s comforting to hear this emphasized by these developers. (Kabam’s Chou shared the same sentiment.) Branded games on Facebook are OK in my book, but the last thing anyone wants to see is the genre become a branding machine.
Monday, September 26, 2011
New study finds Facebook games might do the economy good
The Facebook Economy
The success of Facebook gaming goes beyond Facebook. Based on an economic impact study released today (courtesy of the University of Maryland), Facebook games, applications, and social plugins (e.g. "Like" buttons, fan pages, Facebook Connect, etc.) are responsible for adding somewhere from 182,744 to 235,644 full-time jobs, and $12.19 billion to $15.71 billion into the US economy.
Seeing that the Facebook platform has only been around since May 2007, the growth has been tremendous. The study cites Zynga as an example as the most successful venture on the Facebook platform, primarily thanks to hits like FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and Words With Friends. Zynga itself has 2,000 employees with the company valued at $15 to $20 billion. Whereas, Playfish was bought by EA for $300 million, and Playdom was bought by Disney for $763.2 million.
The study, created by professors of the Center for Digital Innovation, Technology, and Strategy at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, moves on from counting the numbers of direct employment to uncovering jobs indirectly created by Facebook apps. It then estimates the economic value of all those jobs, which means analyzing salaries and benefits. Still skeptical? They're calling it the "Facebook App Economy" and you can read all about it here.
[Image Credit: Visual Economics]
[Via SFGate]
Do you still think that Facebook games are a waste of money? Do you know anyone who's been able to make a living thanks to Facebook games? Add Comment
The success of Facebook gaming goes beyond Facebook. Based on an economic impact study released today (courtesy of the University of Maryland), Facebook games, applications, and social plugins (e.g. "Like" buttons, fan pages, Facebook Connect, etc.) are responsible for adding somewhere from 182,744 to 235,644 full-time jobs, and $12.19 billion to $15.71 billion into the US economy.
Seeing that the Facebook platform has only been around since May 2007, the growth has been tremendous. The study cites Zynga as an example as the most successful venture on the Facebook platform, primarily thanks to hits like FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and Words With Friends. Zynga itself has 2,000 employees with the company valued at $15 to $20 billion. Whereas, Playfish was bought by EA for $300 million, and Playdom was bought by Disney for $763.2 million.
The study, created by professors of the Center for Digital Innovation, Technology, and Strategy at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, moves on from counting the numbers of direct employment to uncovering jobs indirectly created by Facebook apps. It then estimates the economic value of all those jobs, which means analyzing salaries and benefits. Still skeptical? They're calling it the "Facebook App Economy" and you can read all about it here.
[Image Credit: Visual Economics]
[Via SFGate]
Do you still think that Facebook games are a waste of money? Do you know anyone who's been able to make a living thanks to Facebook games? Add Comment
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