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 | Twitter RSS feed for this section
Blurtt is Worth a Thousand Words
Tweet Let’s assume a picture is worth a thousand words — and that the average word is 6 characters long. Blurtt, a TriplePoint client which allows you to easily add images to your messages — and captions to those images — has essentially given you the power to compose a 6,000 character tweet. Not too [...]
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...Twitter’s New Coat of Paint & New Features Rolling Out Now
15. September 2010
Tweet Twitter hasn’t changed much since it launched in 2006, despite a few changes on the way. From the beginning for instance, the focus wasn’t on searching Twitter or its trending topics, but rather on simply just getting you to sign up. This look and feel has changed since then, with more focus on search [...]
Continue reading...Thursday Throwdown: TweetDeck or HootSuite? You Decide!
2. September 2010
Tweet Welcome to another edition of the Thursday Throwdown here on Frisky Mongoose! This week, we take a break from the world of Facebook games to pit two of the largest Twitter clients against one another. Before we get to that, however, let’s take a look at the results of our last Throwdown, which saw [...]
Continue reading...Twitter Fast Follow & Droid 2 Releasing Tomorrow: Wireless Wednesday
11. August 2010
Tweet In the mobile news world, we have some very interesting stories leaking down the pipes like clockwork. Today, we have the new feature announced by Twitter called Fast Follow for SMS and the release of the Motorola Droid 2 on Verizon tomorrow. Twitter Fast Follow Twitter has just announced a brand new feature for [...]
Continue reading...Social Media Monopoly & Promoted Tweets: Social Tuesday
10. August 2010
Tweet Social media these days appears to have almost taken over the news world, with news about new revenue streams and creative uses of the companies that make-up the social world. Today, Mashable’s Social Monopoly has us passing Go and buying Digg along with Twitter announcing their support for third party app advertising solutions. Social [...]
Continue reading...Social Tuesday: New Twitter Media Feature & CardStar Adds Foursquare Support
27. July 2010
Tweet In the social world today there are always plenty of news stories about the services people use to connect with each other, whether it’s Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Flickr or any other platform of limitless possibilities. Today, we have Twitter testing a new functionality of the timeline including in-line pictures and videos and CardStar adding [...]
Continue reading...Twitter Publishing Shopping Deals Through Advertising Account?
4. July 2010
Tweet There have been a number of questions as to how Twitter might be able to monetize the monstrous user base it has. It has looked at a number of solutions, but this might be the best one yet: Setting up what are essentially advertising accounts that broadcast various shopping deals. It current has an [...]
Continue reading...New Futurama Takes Aim at iPhone, Twitter
4. July 2010
Tweet Futurama is a former FOX animation comedy that has been resurrected on Comedy Central, and it hasn’t wasted anytime to offer up some topical jokes in its new season. In particular, the show takes aim at the iPhone and Twitter: Futurama Thursdays 10pm / 9c The Twit Worm www.comedycentral.com Futurama New Episodes Futurama New [...]
Continue reading...How Twitter Responded to the iPhone 4 Launch
30. June 2010
Tweet Yes, we know sales of the iPhone 4 are spectacular with the 1.7 Million sold figure being tossed around for just the first 3 days since launch and that lines just to get one in your hands extended for up to 14 hours. How did Twitter respond, however? Mashable gathered a ton of data [...]
Continue reading...New York Times Editor Rages Against “Tweets”
12. June 2010
Tweet According to a MediaBistro report, one New York Times editor isn’t pleased with his staffers using the word “tweet”. Phil Corbett, the paper’s standards editor released the following memo to staffers: Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological contexts, “tweet” has not yet achieved the status of standard English. And standard English [...]
Continue reading...Grab a Hello Kitty Skin For iPhone Twitter App
5. June 2010
Tweet If you’re a big fan of the cartoonish and cute Hello Kitty and also a big fan of sending out tweets, you’re going to have to sit down and take a breath. There is a Hello Kitty Twitter client available for download in the App Store right now–all for the low price of $3.99. [...]
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