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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! ...

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Thursday Appdate: Running with Friends

16. May 2013

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Tweet Friendship may or may not be magic, but it helps you accomplish an awful lot in the realm of gaming. In Zynga’s library alone, if you’ve got friends, you can match words, you can hang, maybe scramble a bit, share of game of chess; your friends are fairly versatile when it comes to recreation. [...]

Wednesdroid: Monsterama Planet

15. May 2013

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Tweet Much like the other days of the week build towards Wednesday in anticipation of the Google Play store update, so too does today’s featured Play Pick slowly swell in momentum and anxiousness towards a flashy pay-off in classic build-em-up style. Monsterama Planet, a free-to-play space colony builder by developer/publisher/fruit/bird Kiwi, takes the standard model of [...]

Windows 8 PCs are Crazy Machines

14. May 2013

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Tweet Okay. Being able to solve simple problems by assembling needlessly complicated Rube Goldberg devices? That’s fairly crazy. Being able to share those devices with like-minded inventors across multiple platforms? That’s very crazy. Getting access to Crazy Machines Golden Gears via the Windows Store and being able to download the game on Windows 8 PCs digitally for [...]

Sunstorm Games Hits a Milestorm

9. May 2013

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Tweet Sometimes, as a developer, all the good news hits at once in a perfect storm of boast-worthy data. If you happen to be Sunstorm Games, a TriplePoint client and mobile games developer, perhaps you look forward to the day you can call yourself a perfect Sunstorm — but until then, hitting 10 Million Monthly [...]

Wednesdroid: Angry Birds Friends

8. May 2013

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Tweet Are they angry, or are they friendly? I guess the two aren’t mutually exclusive, as demonstrated in today’s featured game for the Wednesday Google Play update: Angry Birds Friends, another healthy dose of pig-smashery from the rascals at Rovio. It’s a new title that easily lends itself to a quick try, since it’s free, and [...]

Win a Plants vs Zombies Adventures Beta Key

8. May 2013

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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 [...]

Wednesdroid: Puzzle & Dragons

1. May 2013

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Tweet So, here’s a funny story: I was checking out the titles on offer in today’s Google Play update, and one of the titles leapt out at me: Puzzle & Dragons. Yes, it’s very true that I love puzzles and I’m reasonably fond of dragons, but the title seemed familiar somehow. Probably because of all those [...]

Dragons and Titans Let Wyrms Bite Your Facebook Off

1. May 2013

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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 [...]

Your Daily AppGratis: Fancy

29. April 2013

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Tweet Every day, TriplePoint client AppGratis hand-picks an app that they think you ought to have. They feel strongly enough about the app to make it free for a day. We download and check out what’s on offer — because it’s free. AppGratis has a special present for you today! All you need to do [...]

Your Daily AppGratis: Word Chums

26. April 2013

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Tweet Every day, TriplePoint client AppGratis hand-picks an app that they think you ought to have. They feel strongly enough about the app to make it free for a day. We download and check out what’s on offer — because it’s free. Let’s acknowledge the elephant in the room: Yes, today’s game Word Chums kind of [...]

Your Daily AppGratis: Game For Two

25. April 2013

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Tweet Every day, TriplePoint client AppGratis hand-picks an app that they think you ought to have. They feel strongly enough about the app to make it free for a day. We download and check out what’s on offer — because it’s free. iPhones: great for communication, productivity, and distracting children on long car rides. What [...]

Get Into the Closed Beta for Plants vs. Zombies Adventures

22. April 2013

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Get Into the Closed Beta for Plants vs. Zombies Adventures

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 [...]

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Thursday Appdate: Candymeleon

Waiting for Superman: The Beauty of Virality

I Play SimCity Social for the Writing

User-Generated Content and Generating Contented Users

Nothing Unusual at All is Happening Today

Goodbye, LucasArts, and Thank You

8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games

How Not to Play Location-based Games like an Idiot

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Thursday Appdate: Running with Friends

Wednesdroid: Monsterama Planet

Windows 8 PCs are Crazy Machines

Sunstorm Games Hits a Milestorm

Wednesdroid: Angry Birds Friends

Win a Plants vs Zombies Adventures Beta Key

Wednesdroid: Puzzle & Dragons

Dragons and Titans Let Wyrms Bite Your Facebook Off

Your Daily AppGratis: Fancy

Your Daily AppGratis: Word Chums

Your Daily AppGratis: Game For Two

Get Into the Closed Beta for Plants vs. Zombies Adventures

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