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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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! ...Archive | PopCap RSS feed for this section
Win a Plants vs Zombies Adventures Beta Key
Tweet Playing in the beta test for Plants vs Zombies Adventures requires precise timing and quick reflexes. I don’t know whether you’ll need those things to play the game itself, but to actually get into the beta, that’s what you’re going to need: the new Facebook adaptation of PopCap’s PopuLar tower defense title is in beta right [...]
Continue reading...July 2013 is when Plants vs. Zombies 2 is Happening
6. May 2013
Tweet The news about Plants vs. Zombies 2 has a vital new detail: a release window! We shared the news back in March that PopCap had revealed PvZ2, but nothing else apart from that it existed and that it would show up this summer. Well, now “summer” has been narrowed down to “July.” Plants vs. Zombies [...]
Continue reading...Get Into the Closed Beta for Plants vs. Zombies Adventures
22. April 2013
Tweet So, a little while ago, we told you PopCap was working on a couple of new ways for you to thwart the undead through clever horticulture. The more social selection in those upcoming titles, Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, is coming to Facebook some time in the near future, and if you’re anything like me, you’d [...]
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...Your Daily AppGratis: Plants vs. Zombies
21. February 2013
Tweet Every day, TriplePoint client AppGratis locates an app that they think ought to be free for a day. We download and take a look for ourselves to let you know what awaits you – why not? It’s free. I want to tell you to stop what you’re doing right now and go get PopCap’s fantastic Plants vs. Zombies, which is [...]
Continue reading...Gaming News Roundup — Wednesday, Aug. 22
22. August 2012
Tweet Read about the game development engine Unity and how it will factor into Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. “Our mission at Unity has always been to provide solutions for developers to effortlessly bring their work to as many different platforms as possible,” Unity CEO David Helgason said. In Facebook gaming news, we take [...]
Continue reading...Gaming News Roundup — Tuesday, Aug. 21
21. August 2012
Tweet There’s troubling news in the gaming industry as a number of developers withstand layoffs. PopCap cofounder John Vechey offers some candid words on a fundamental shift in gaming. The PS3/PC hybrid title Dust 514 enters its beta stage. And mobile games forge ahead with good news for iPad gamers. iOS will enjoy some retro [...]
Continue reading...Plants vs. Zombies Sequel Announced
20. August 2012
Tweet Let the sun shine on flowerbeds and call forth legions of zombie-killing flora and fauna. Plants vs. Zombies is getting a sequel. PVZ is the kind of game I purchased for multiple people during Steam sales, simply because it’s the perfect example of a game everyone needs to play at least once. Or twice. [...]
Continue reading...What Kind of Facebook Gamer Are You?
18. February 2011
Tweet Facebook! It is everywhere and everything, and it consumes us all. I would bet ten dollars that, as you read this, you’ve got Facebook open right now in another tab or window. It is also home to several thousand games, with more arriving every day, appealing to audiences from every walk of life. So, [...]
Continue reading...Bookworm Now On GSN, PCHGames.com Announces September Events
10. September 2010
Tweet This week has been filled with news from the casual gaming space, and today is no exception, as we have announcements from two casual gaming portals, GSN and PCHGames.com. From GSN, we see a very well-known game being added to the ranks from an equally popular developer, and from PCHGames.com we have the reveal [...]
Continue reading...PopCap Releases Plants vs Zombies for Xbox Live Arcade: A Frisky Hands-On
9. September 2010
Tweet PopCap, known for their popular Bejeweled and Zuma series released a rather stunning gem last year with Plants vs Zombies for Mac/PC and then iPhone and iPad earlier this year. Xbox Live Arcade seemed like the perfect platform to bring the game over to next and it has paid off in what is likely [...]
Continue reading...5 Reasons Facebook Places Matters for Social Games
30. August 2010
Tweet I’ve never “played” Foursquare, but I have used it. To me, most location based check-in apps (like Foursquare & Gowalla) are more of a novelty than anything. You don’t have to look too hard to find a debate on whether or not this type of geocaching should be considered a “game” in the standard [...]
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