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 | Zoo Games RSS feed for this section
RockYou Launches Official Zoo World Blog, Gives Away Free Vitamins!
Tweet RockYou has made some major strides recently in attempting to connect more their community, namely, in the launch of an official blog for their most popular Facebook game, Zoo World, which currently sits at around 9 million monthly active users. The Zoo World blog functions much in the same way as a traditional Facebook [...]
Continue reading...Thursday Throwdown: Zoo World or Zoo Paradise? You Decide!
9. September 2010
Tweet Welcome to another edition of the Thursday Throwdown here on Frisky Mongoose. This week, we jump back into the world of Facebook gaming by taking a look at two zoo games, CrowdStar’s Zoo Paradise, and RockYou!’s Zoo World. Before we do that, though, let’s take a second to recap last week’s events. Last week, [...]
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...Frisky Hands-On: Zoo Paradise for iPhone
29. July 2010
Tweet While Zynga’s FarmVille and Playdom’s Social City may receive most of the attention when it comes to Facebook games that have made the transition to iPhone titles, CrowdStar’s Zoo Paradise has also made the leap, thanks to YouWeb. Unlike another of CrowdStar’s iPhone games, Happy Island, Zoo Paradise instantly connects to your Facebook account, [...]
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...Attract Birds to Your Zoo Paradise With Free Bird Feeder
11. July 2010
Tweet Zoo Paradise has gone to the birds! No, no, I don’t mean it in a bad way. I’m talking about CrowdStar’s newly released collection: the bird collection. Just like the butterfly collection, you’ll need to purchase a Bird Feeder to attract birds to your zoo. No worries though; the Bird Feeder is entirely free [...]
Continue reading...Won’t You Help the Zoo Paradise Trapped Animal?
8. July 2010
Tweet In keeping with the tradition found in most CrowdStar games, the developer has released a new “locked box” item in Zoo Paradise. The locked box can be found inside your zoo. Clicking on it will show you that a poor creature is trapped inside the box, which is locked with four locks. You’ll need [...]
Continue reading...Enter Zoo Paradise Contest for A Chance at 5,000 Coins
6. July 2010
Tweet CrowdStar is holding a contest in Zoo Paradise that doubles as a fan survey. They are asking users to make a comment in one particular post on the game’s official fan page on Facebook, answering a simple, two part, question – “What is your favorite Zoo Paradise Habitat and why?” Simply write a comment [...]
Continue reading...Rainbow Fantasy Items Come to Zoo Paradise
5. July 2010
Tweet CrowdStar has released a new item theme in Zoo Paradise, and it comes in the form of “Rainbow Fantasy.” This theme contains multiple rainbow-themed animals, like the “My Little Unicorn,” a white unicorn with rainbow colored hair, a Rainbow Zebra and Tiger, both with multi-colored stripes, a Rainbow Toucan with a rainbow beak, and [...]
Continue reading...New July 4th Items in Zoo Paradise
4. July 2010
Tweet Your zoo is looking a little drab. I didn’t want to be the one to say it, but, it’s the 4th of July! Have some holiday spirit. Where are the fireworks? The excessive use of red, white, and blue? Don’t worry, CrowdStar has come to the rescue with the new Fireworks Stand. Patterned in [...]
Continue reading...New Limited Edition Golden Dragon in Zoo Paradise
3. July 2010
Tweet A Golden Dragon has been found by Midas Expeditions and they really want you to take it off their hands in Zoo Paradise. There’s just one catch: you’ll have to buy the Midas Expeditions Idol first. The Idol costs a whopping 90 Facebook Credits and is placed in your zoo. Every day for 14 [...]
Continue reading...Celebrate the 4th of July in Zoo World
30. June 2010
Tweet Are you ready to celebrate the Fourth of July in Zoo World? I hope so, because whether you’re ready or not, the celebration has begun, with the game’s boat (found at the entrance of your zoo) being entirely themed in red, white, and blue, for the Independence Day celebration. The “Happy 4th of July” [...]
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