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 | Happy Island RSS feed for this section
Happy Island on Android, Playdom Passes CrowdStar in Userbase
Tweet Just yesterday, we brought you the news that Playdom has brought Social City to the Android, and today we can add another Facebook title to that list. In other Facebook news, we see that Playdom has now passed CrowdStar in terms of overall user numbers. Happy Island Now Available on Android Back in early [...]
Continue reading...Install the CrowdStar Gamebar, Receive Rewards in Happy Pets, Happy Aquarium & More!
17. August 2010
Tweet While the CrowdStar Gamebar has been available for some time, there was never really any incentive for players to install it, that is, until now, as CrowdStar has updated the bar to offer rewards to players in four different games, should they choose to download it. In Happy Pets, players will receive the CrowdStar [...]
Continue reading...Medieval/Lord of the Rings Items, Back to School Sale in Happy Island
14. August 2010
Tweet In celebration of the back-to-school season, CrowdStar is holding a big sale on coin purchases in Happy Island. If you’ve been saving some of your Facebook Credits for a great chance at transforming them to in-game coins, here’s your chance! In addition new Medieval themed items will have your tourists thinking they’ve traveled back [...]
Continue reading...Happy Island Tips, Tricks, Strategies & Cheats for Tropical Tourism Success
6. August 2010
Tweet Hey Happy Island fans, how would you like some tips, tricks and strategies for making your tourist attraction the most amazing in town? If you want to keep visitors on your island, make them happy and level up quickly, here is some info (provided by Gamezebo) that you should know about CrowdStar’s Happy Island [...]
Continue reading...175 Free Facebook Credits, Gingerbread House, Open A Locked Lantern – Escape With Happy Island Updates!
3. August 2010
Tweet If you haven’t played Happy Island in a few days, the next time you do so, you’ll be met with quite a few updates. First, CrowdStar is now offering all users a new opportunity to earn 175 Free Facebook Credits via a cross-promotion with Shoebuy.com, or you can spend some of your hard earned [...]
Continue reading...Happy Island Updates: New Attractions, Decorations, and Limited Edition Item Bundles
23. July 2010
Tweet CrowdStar has been busy updating Happy Island this week, with new attractions, new decorations, and even new limited edition item bundles. The item bundles can be found as soon as you login to the game, via a pop-up and icon on the right-hand side of the gameplay area, while the new attractions and decorations [...]
Continue reading...CrowdStar Gaming Updates: Happy Island Adds Picnic Tables, Win Coins in Zoo Paradise Contest, & Upgrade Your Piggy Bank in Happy Pets
13. July 2010
Tweet CrowdStar has updated three of their games this week. In Happy Island, we’ve seen the release of quite a few new picnic table decorative items, while Happy Pets has seen an update to their Piggy Bank / daily prize feature. Finally, for those users playing Zoo Paradise, you can now enter a very simple [...]
Continue reading...Create the Great Wall of China on Your Happy Island
8. July 2010
Tweet To go along with the recent release of Asian themed items in Happy Island, CrowdStar has released a series of “Great Wall” decorations, that will allow you to – you guessed it – build your very own Great Wall of China on your Happy Island. The wall can be built in three sections – [...]
Continue reading...New Happy Island Attractions Give Nod to the Last Airbender
8. July 2010
Tweet CrowdStar must be excited about the new film The Last Airbender, as they have released a full set of items in the game in honor of the film’s release. The four attractions are Elemental Temples, and they come in the form of a Fiery Shrine, a Frozen Shrine, a Geo Shrine and a Breezy [...]
Continue reading...New Happy Island Decorations Offer Nod to Summer and… Tetris?
5. July 2010
Tweet CrowdStar has added a series of new decorations to Happy Island, and what an interesting mix they are. Items like “King’s Kite,” “JR’s Kite,” and the BBQ Pit are easy enough to explain, as we’ve now officially entered summer, and the developer apparently wants you to be able to decorate for it. The… interesting [...]
Continue reading...Pick Up A Happy Island Item Bundle On A Serious Discount
5. July 2010
Tweet If you’ve got five Facebook Credits on hand, and you play CrowdStar’s Happy Island, the developer is hoping that you’ll be willing to spend those credits on one of four discounted packages, one for 50,000 coins, and the other three for some seriously discounted limited edition item bundles. First things first – all of [...]
Continue reading...Happy Island LE Now Available on iPhone
2. July 2010
Tweet Back in May, we brought you the news that CrowdStar and Sibblingz would be bringing Faebook gaming hit Happy Island to the iPhone. That day has arrived, with the app now being available on the iPhone App Store for 99 cents. While there had been a bit of confusion as to whether or not [...]
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