Thursday Appdate: Candymeleon
Recently on Gamasutra, BitMonster's Lee Perry wrote a very insightful blog on an often intangible facet of game design: player feedback, that bit of game "feel" that makes a game not just fun, but injects fun into the basic actions and events on-screen. Candymeleon, a selection by Bulkypix from the 'New ...
Waiting for Superman: The Beauty of Virality
One day in October 2012, I happened across this YouTube video with a top-down view of PSY’s concert in Seoul. Over 80,000 people were in attendance, with the crowd spanning entire city blocks. Every member of the audience was singing along in unison with PSY who was on stage addressing ...
I Play SimCity Social for the Writing
“SimCity Social?” they ask me. “Sure, it’s got the SimCity branding and all, but isn’t it just another click-and-wait Facebook game?” Though I know the look of skepticism it will produce, my reply is, “Oh, I play SimCity Social for the writing.” Since I can feel your dubious smirks already, let me ...
User-Generated Content and Generating Contented Users
We at Frisky Mongoose like to play a lot of location-based games; it’s kind of our thing. There have been a lot of them over the years, as designers and developers have tried to gamify locations, or localize games, or whichever approach they feel like taking. While there are some ...
Nothing Unusual at All is Happening Today
Just another regular day in the games industry! Dogfighting game War Thunder has a new set of combatants, there's a new contender in the console field, and SEGA's got a new sound engine. New DLC is out for Journey, which is nice, and Europa Universalis was announced for a new platform. Oh, and ...
Goodbye, LucasArts, and Thank You
This is my Corley Motors keychain. Corley Motors is a fictional motorcycle manufacturer that the player, as gang leader Ben, must save from a hostile takeover in the classic LucasArts adventure Full Throttle. Together with Grim Fandango and his work on the Monkey Island series and Day of the Tentacle (all also LucasArts games), Full Throttle ...
8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games
Two years ago, I ranted about the need for more challenge and chance in social games. Since then, the entire gaming industry has drastically changed. If I sound like a broken record on that note, it’s because in a fast-paced, high-tech market, it’s always true (and thus worth reiteration). It seems ...
How Not to Play Location-based Games like an Idiot
Welcome to the wonderful world of location-based games! I see you’ve just downloaded a copy of Traveler’s Quest, or Dokobots, or CodeRunner, or perhaps you’ve got yourself on foursquare for the first time. That’s great! You’re about to discover what geotagging and GPS-enabled mobile devices can add to gaming and ...Archive | MMOG RSS feed for this section
Dragons and Titans Let Wyrms Bite Your Facebook Off
Tweet I hope you enjoyed your last few weeks of not being on fire! As we warned you a while ago, TriplePoint client Wyrmbyte is bringing some high-quality dragons to your Facebook page in a Unity-powered MOBA title called Dragons and Titans. Today, that game is in open beta, meaning any of your friends can climb [...]
Continue reading...Vendetta Online is Online, Holding Vendettas
17. April 2013
Tweet It is now officially later in the month than when we told you Vendetta Online was coming to the iPad later this month. Vendetta Online is, therefore, on the iPad! Today’s turning into a good day for cross-platform gaming. TriplePoint client Guild Software — the folks who organized an entire professional society around holding grudges against [...]
Continue reading...Vendetta Online Holds Grudges on New Platform
4. April 2013
Tweet The thing about holding a vendetta is that it consumes your life. When your hostility is that deep-seated, it’s never far from your thoughts, and you do everything in your power to pursue the target of your hatred, relentlessly. So, when you publish an MMO called Vendetta Online, it’s only natural that you’d want your [...]
Continue reading...Wyrmbyte and Zynga Have Dragons and Titans
2. April 2013
Tweet Facebook games have grown and evolved a long way beyond adding social features to match-three titles — in the last couple of years alone, we’ve seen fully 3D games like Robot Rising and Buddy Rush come to the platform thanks to tools like Unity. Of course, this has resulted in horrible things like robots that rise [...]
Continue reading...More Plants vs. Further Zombies
26. March 2013
Tweet A double dose of undead defense news sprouted up today from PopCap Games — their iconic lawn-defense title, Plants vs. Zombies, is coming back in two distinct forms. For starters, the game’s going social, coming soon to Facebook as Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, promising that the game is “expanding with endless waves of new characters, strategies, [...]
Continue reading...Raft Pirates Now Pirating Androids
20. March 2013
Tweet I realize there’s a significant problem with stolen apps and jailbroken phones and pirated software, and so I don’t lightly make the suggestion that more piracy on the Android is a good thing. If it’s just the mechanical Raft Pirates, though, the mobile MMO miscreants we told you about a while ago, I figure it’s [...]
Continue reading...League of Legends + Maroon 5 = Lady Game Lyric
15. March 2013
Tweet It’s been a while since we’ve shared a new video from our good friend Lady Game Lyric — but she’s hardly been idling! A new video from the songstress of gaming has just debuted today, and it may well be her most elaborate production yet. Donning the guise of Miss Fortune from League of Legends [...]
Continue reading...Deepworld Crafts a Mobile Version
8. March 2013
Tweet Technically, the crafting/exploration/fighting game Deepworld, from TriplePoint client Bytebin, has had a mobile version for a little while, if you consider your iPad to be a mobile device. The jury may still be out on that last point, but Bytebin has decreed that their game is now truly mobile, thanks to the release of an iPhone-specific [...]
Continue reading...SmashMuck SteamPAX BetaLunacy
6. March 2013
Tweet If you follow the MOBA genre, you’ll be familiar with a broad variety of heroes, or champions, or whatever a specific game chooses to call its roster of playable characters — eclectic combatants designed to look and play differently, allowing teams to match up complementary powers and let players develop personal play styles. SmashMuck Champions, [...]
Continue reading...Raft Pirates Will Rob You in Your Sleep
28. February 2013
Tweet Despite rare exceptions in literature and cinema, pirates are not generally known for being polite or playing fair. So, when someone like TriplePoint client 6waves releases a new pirate-themed MMO, Raft Pirates, and promises a persistent world, that’s a double-edged sword: your loot doesn’t stay safe just because you’re not logged in. If you don’t [...]
Continue reading...User-Generated Content and Generating Contented Users
20. February 2013
Tweet We at Frisky Mongoose like to play a lot of location-based games; it’s kind of our thing. There have been a lot of them over the years, as designers and developers have tried to gamify locations, or localize games, or whichever approach they feel like taking. While there are some notable exceptions, of course, [...]
Continue reading...Fall into Hell
7. September 2012
Tweet Ah, autumn. I don’t know about you, but when I see the leaves changing to those beautiful oranges and reds, I can’t help but think of anguishing hellfire and murderous demons. My therapist says I need to start medication. Thankfully, I can indulge these thoughts in a new round of Hellgate Global events, announced today [...]
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