by admin on October 18, 2010
The games are back on. After a weekend of removal from Facebook, LOLapps announced on its blog that all game services are back.
Facebook took into action to remove apps that are violating its terms, specifically passing user ID to outside firms. LOLapps admitted the issue but claimed that it was unintentional. It quoted statement from Facebook’s blog “In most cases, developers did not intend to pass this information, but did so because of the technical details of how browsers work.” and stated that it ”applies to Lolapps”. However, the blog does not include details in how the issue was being resolved.
It must be a great relieve for millions of game players and we’re all glad that the issue has been resolved reasonably quick. It can have great impact to both LOLapps and Facebook if the issue drags on for too long. Not only will LOLapps loses revenue for not having any services up on Facebook, slowly users and game developers will turn against Facebook as they become upset with the inefficiency and complication in being a social game platform.
by admin on October 17, 2010
One of the biggest game makers on Facebook, LOLapps, produces popular social games Critter Island, Garden Life, Diva Life, Band of Heroes, Supermodel: The Game, Yakuza Lords and Facebook versions of Dante’s Inferno and Champions Online.
During the Oct 16th weekend, all the games disappeared from Facebook with the page not found message, leaving all players confused and frustrated. LOLapps is telling its users to stay tuned for more information.
According to VentureBeat, Facebook’s spokesman stated, “We have disabled applications from LOLapps due to violations of our terms.”
Facebook is a huge portal for game developers and integration with the Facebook platform can utilize the great population within this social world. However, we also see that the Facebook now has the power to control developers’ behaviors and possibly creativities. It’ll be interesting to see how the online community is going to react to this ban. It can make some people quite upset now that Facebook becomes the one who has the power to control. We look forward to some explanation about the action.
by fli on August 28, 2009
As we have mentioned in our other posts, hidden object games became a very popular genre in the causal game industry.
How about mixing part of the game into the real life?
Wired Magazine recently began a contest to hunt down the guy above. Ratliff, 34, a reporter for Wired magazine is on a hideout for 30 days started on August 15, 2009. Everyone has until September 15, 2009 to look for him and get the code word from him. The winner will receive $5000 as reward. Ratliff continues to go on blog, twitter and facebook to leave hints for readers. There are also clues from his editor with Ratliff’s credit card transaction history.
Wired hired Teeuwynn Woodruff as the lead for this hunt. See more of what the scouts are finding here: http://twitter.com/EvansVanished
It is quite interesting how a group of people come together on the cyberspace and all trying to solve this puzzle.
This is just like a real life hidden object game. Look for the hints and clues and see if you can find out the final answer.
Click here to find out more about this “manhunt”.
