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Beyond Facebook: How social games terrify traditional game maker
Facebook is truly shaking up the traditional video game market and the responses from the industry range from panic to visions of a new kind of gaming paradise for the world. Jesse Schell, a game design professor at Carnegie Mellon University, generated a lot of chuckles this morning with his observations about that in his talk “Beyond Facebook” at the Dice Summit in Las Vegas. At the conference aimed at the hardcore game developers, Schell said that traditional game developers were completely taken by surprise by the success of games such as
These days everyone seems to have advice about how to run your social media marketing program.
10 Essential Rules for Brands in Social Media
The culture clash between social games and core gamers was on full display at GDC. I have been called a traitor to the cause of core gamers, even.
Raph’s Website » What core gamers should know about social games
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Heyzap Makes Facebook Games Embeddable On The Web
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Survey: Average Social Gamer In U.S., Europe Is Under 30
[In this in-depth Gamasutra feature, Digital Chocolate (Safari Kingdom, Nanotowns) lead social designer Aki Jarvinen discusses the complexities of attracting social gamers with little patience -- and still teaching them to play your game both effectively and appealingly.] As the freemium business model is becoming de facto standard in social games, the key design features factoring into acquiring and retaining players are shifting. Developers can no longer trust that their players will make the effort of learning the ropes of their game through a set of challenges, just because they have spent tens of dollars to get the game at their hands.
Features - First Five Minutes: How Tutorials Make or Break Your
Features - Listening Is Your First Step: An Online Game Marketin
Now let's look at the seven steps I go through to actually do an online marketing audit for a client.
Location-based social networks Foursquare and Gowalla , which launched the craze of “checking in” at locations such as restaurants or stores in exchange for points, are often described as games.
New generation of location games catches on
Les métiers du social media marketing
Si nous devions établir un classement des buzz words du moment, “ community manager “ serait celui qui viendrait en tête de liste. Je pense qu’il n’est pas faux de dire que nous lisons tout et n’importe quoi sur les community managers en ce moment. Métier en vogue, je m’interroge néanmoins sur les contours de cette fonction et surtout sur la façon dont il est perçu par les annonceurs.Virtual Goods Spending on the Rise, finds Magid
Posted May 28, 2010 by M.H.Jeudi dernier a eu lieu la grande conférence annuelle des développeurs Facebook .
Facebook va-t-il révolutionner le web ?
By now, most people in the social gaming industry have heard about “whales”, those players who spend massively on virtual goods and gifts in games like Mafia Wars or Happy Aquarium . Whales have become a significant source of revenue for social game companies, especially in light of the tiny numbers of users, well under 10 percent for almost all social games, who ever pay anything at all.