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 | Location-Based RSS feed for this section
GeoGuessr is Quite Literally Location-Based Gaming
Tweet Where in the world has this game been all my life? If I knew the answer to that, I’d be able to click on its location, and win all the points. GeoGuessr, an extraordinarily clever browser game by Anton Wallén, is a location-based game about determining a location for points. The game drops you somewhere on [...]
Continue reading...2 Million Folks are Very Digisocial
21. March 2013
Tweet We’re not surprised that TriplePoint client Digisocial is sharing some news and an update with us; sharing is pretty much their raison d’être. We’re slightly surprised the news didn’t have a voice clip attached, but we can’t have everything, we suppose. The news is that the Digisocial app has now been downloaded over 2 million [...]
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...Magic: The Gathering Creator is Making Location-Based Game, Map Monsters
30. April 2012
Tweet Via Kickstarter, we’ve learned that Richard Garfield, the creator of famed allowance-eater Magic: The Gathering is working on “a free-to-play location-based adventure game.” Entitled Map Monsters, the upcoming title attempts to use location gaming as a secondary mechanic, rather than a primary one: players will not be obligated to actually go anywhere to catch the many [...]
Continue reading...How Not to Play Location-based Games like an Idiot
30. April 2012
Tweet 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 social media. Location-based games [...]
Continue reading...5 Apps to Make You Smile
17. April 2012
Tweet These are a few of my favorite digital things… This list is hardly comprehensive, nor is it in any particular order. Enjoy! 1. Timehop - This gets top billing because too few people know about it (and more should – it’s neat). Basically, Timehop answers one question, every day, via email. “What did you do [...]
Continue reading...What Kind of Location Gamer are You?
9. February 2011
Tweet With gamification having consumed every aspect of our lives, there is no reason for you not to transform your surroundings into a realm of competition and adventure. There’s a very good chance, in fact, that several games are being played right under your nose – on your commute, at your workplace, in your haunts [...]
Continue reading...Social Media Yearbook, 2011 Infographic Edition
8. February 2011
Tweet Infographics: the web’s unique way of defining our tech-heavy times, destroying our productivity levels, and giving us the giggles. Flowtown has a fun new highschool-themed shakedown of today’s social media giants. Where do you fit into the 2011 yearbook? Do note the omission of any gaming networks (i.e. Apple’s Game Center, OpenFeint or Xbox [...]
Continue reading...Foursquare Badge Fun, from Super Bowl to Subtle Snark
6. February 2011
Tweet Beginning at kickoff today (6:30pm ET on FOX), Foursquare will open up a special edition check-in point globally to all users – look for the promoted trending venue, “Super Bowl Sunday”. If you missed out on the “PA Groundhog Day” badge earlier this week (when Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring), now’s your shot [...]
Continue reading...EpicMix Earns You Achievements for Skiing & Earn Free Microsoft Points with Bing – Friday Web
24. September 2010
Tweet For those who just can’t wait to check-in to their next venue, or to win some sweet free Microsoft Points, we’ve got some great news for you. Today, we have EpicMix, which will allow you skiing or snowboarding types to earn achievements and level-up just by doing so, and the rewards program for Bing [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...iPads Shipping Within 24 Hours & 3 Million Foursquarers – Just Checkin’ In
29. August 2010
Tweet Whether it’s the world of iPads or the world of check-in services like Foursquare, there is seemingly an endless pool of news. Today, we have the news about Apple catching up to iPad demand by beginning to ship iPads within 24 hours and the news that Foursquare has hit 3 million users. iPads Shipping [...]
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