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 | Contests RSS feed for this section
Former Actress Fish Steals Sandwiches from Charity
Tweet Look, I don’t know how you do things beneath the surface, but here on land, we do not engage in sandwich-based love affairs, and we certainly don’t have them at the center of our celebrity rehab scandals and philanthropy gone wrong. If this is how sandwiches work underwater, then I am turning in my [...]
Continue reading...Crab Loves Sandwiches Despite Intense Sogginess
23. April 2013
Tweet Yesterday, we knew only that TriplePoint client PlayFirst was teasing their new game by hurling sandwiches into the sea. Seems like there’s easier ways to feed the marine life, but I am not a biologist; presumably someone at PlayFirst has conducted a recent study on the effects of hoagies on endemic species of the [...]
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...PlayFirst Throws a Box of Sandwiches in the Water
22. April 2013
Tweet So, there’s a new game coming out — I think. I’d love to tell you more about it, and whether it’s actually a game and not just some sort of environmental hazard, but TriplePoint client PlayFirst is being very coy about the entire ordeal. This morning, they announced that they were “building interest for [...]
Continue reading...Gaming News Roundup—Thursday, August 2
2. August 2012
Tweet Today in the gaming world, we take a look at how Deadlight is faring with the critics. BioWare announces the much-rumored Mass Effect 3 DLC Leviathan to no one’s surprise, EA announces a new Sims 3 expansion, WoW loses a million subscribers and GiantBomb stays frosty with an inside look at Aliens: Colonial Marines. [...]
Continue reading...A Fever with Runs is a Good Thing
25. July 2012
Tweet Did you know that 9Fruits can give you the runs? It has nothing to do with how sensitive your stomach is. 9Fruits, a TriplePoint client, has given the world Running Fever, a new social sprinting game available today on Facebook. In celebration of the Olympic Games, players of Running Fever can compete in action-type gameplay to [...]
Continue reading...Poke Around the Pokki Winners
6. March 2012
Tweet SweetLabs, a TriplePoint client and official arch-enemy of all your free time, have unleashed the winners of the Pokki 1UP Game Developer Contest, and would like you to play them for the next several thousand hours. SweetLabs, you see, are creators of Pokki, a handy little system that lets developers build their games and applications [...]
Continue reading...Atari Wants You to Bounce Some Ideas Off of Them
29. February 2012
Tweet Do you remember when Pong came out? If you do, can you use your senior’s discount to buy me movie tickets? Okay, maybe you’re not quite that old yet, but seeing as Pong is celebrating its 40th anniversary, you’re definitely getting up there. Atari, a TriplePoint client who is also pushing 40, is celebrating the classic [...]
Continue reading...Dragonian Era Rising on March 9th
28. February 2012
Tweet In another stunningly accurate prediction of historical events, TriplePoint client Mgame USA has pinpointed the exact date when this era will end, and the next era will begin. According to these anthropologists, we can expect the Rise of Dragonian Era on March 9th, 2012. That is the date when the information age will draw to [...]
Continue reading...Piracy Runs Rampant in Conquer Online
12. January 2012
Tweet When you get as popular and successful as Conquer Online has, you’re bound to start attracting pirates. Things are so bad for the iPad MMO from TriplePoint client NetDragon, that the pirates are actually showing up inside the game itself, utterly dominating the new expansion that launched today. Players can even make characters in an [...]
Continue reading...Throw Fireballs, Receive Money
9. January 2012
Tweet It’s ROUND ONE! of the Street Fighter IV HD 2012 Global Championships Tournament Qualifier this weekend, January 14th, and that means it’s your chance to FIGHT! for a proper pile of cash being offered by the tourney’s sponsors, LG Electronics, Capcom, and onGamenet. Specifically, if you can throw the fastest punches, execute the hardest throws, [...]
Continue reading...RockYou’s Gourmet Ranch Lassos in Two Mochi Award Nominations
10. February 2011
Tweet RockYou’s Gourmet Ranch game is a finalist for Best Social Game and the People’s Choice Award for the 2011 Mochi Awards, which recognize the best Flash games of the year. RockYou is a TriplePoint client. Gourmet Ranch dishes out some of the most engaging aspects of social games, with a combined farming and baking [...]
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