Filed under: Farmville , Other Games The zealous chief of the social gaming giant made the ambitious claims at the Zynga Seattle opening ceremony last night. In the midst of the recruiting rush...
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Quote of the Moment: ‘Metrics … help us make [social] games better’
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Filed under: Farmville , FrontierVille , Other Games he numbers give us an idea of roughly what kind of feature to do because there are some kinds of features that are more likely...
Zynga Beijing manager says social games are a craft, not an art
Filed under: Farmville , Other Games , CityVille Social games are not an art, according to Zynga Beijing general manager Andy Tian. And there it is straight from the omnipotent horse's mouth, folks....
Hospitopia on Facebook will give players a cause to ‘Share’ [Interview]
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Filed under: Other Games While social game developers like Zynga have been leveraging their millions of fans to contribute to noble causes, it's only recently that games devoted entirely to a cause have...
Playfish infographic shows off its numbers and has some fun
Filed under: Pet Society , Restaurant City Ever wondered how many social gamers it would take to fill, say, England? Probably not, but according to Playfish , its entire player base of 55...
Is gifting in Facebook games broken?
Filed under: Other Games Gifting is one of the largest social features in Facebook games.
Newsweek rates Facebook’s ‘most addictive games’, the most fun epidemic in years
Newsweek recently took a look at the metrics they believe imply are Facebook's most addictive games including staples like Zyngas ' FarmVille and Mafia Wars as well as gems like Bejeweled Blitz from...
Microsoft Bing’s Farmville ad campaign up for award
Filed under: Farmville As if attracting over 400,000 new Facebook fans for their client wasn't reward enough, the minds behind this Spring's inventive Farvmville-based ad campaign for Microsoft's Bing search engine are up...
Mass Effect 2 developers borrowing social gaming’s metrics-mining approach
Social game developers are often criticized for focusing on " player metrics " -- gameplay data culled from actual player experience that's used to guide frequent, carefully crafted updates. But a new interview...
Quote of the Moment: Stats ain’t everything
"When we first started making games we made mistakes. We thought it was a matter of simple math.