Facebook "Simgesel Oyunlar" Arıyor — Facebook Calls For Iconic Games

Facebook calls for aramak'iconic games'

By Maggie Shiels

Technology reporter, BBC News, GDC, San Francisco

The world's largest social network has thrown down the gauntlet meydan okumak to game developers to design an iconic simgesel, simgeleşmiş social game like Mario or Halo for Facebook.

Research araştırma suggests around three quarters çeyrek of Facebook's 400m users play social games on the site.

The challenge meydan okumak came on the opening day of the Game Developers Conference.

"The next killervurucugame is still out there and this game will come from you," Gareth Davis told a room of designers in San Francisco. "When we look at every major game platform, we see that there is an iconic defining game on that platform whether it's Sonic or Mario or Halo. And while there are some great games on Facebook today, no one has yet produced the iconic game for [it]. The Facebook Mario is still out there," said Mr Davis.

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But some developers questioned what exactly tam olarak constitutes oluşturmak an iconic game.

"If I knew that, I wouldn't tell you the answer. I would go out and make it," said Pete Morrish of developer Waterfront Entertainment.

Dasha Kobzeva of Playrix Entertainment was a little more forthcoming yaklaşan. "I think a good strategy game might be a winner but at the moment what we are seeing is a lot of games that are prettyoldukçasimilar to each other like farm games and aquariumakvaryumgames," he said. "So far şimdiye kadarnothing really stands outgöze çarpmak."

But veteran tecrübeli games developer Brenda Brathwaite,creative yaratıcı director of the online social entertainment company Slide, disagrees. "I think the killer game for me at the momentşu andais Farmville. It is the biggest game that is out there and I would have to give respectsaygıto that."

Farmville, which is a virtual sanal farming game, took five weeks to develop and attracts (f.) çekmek over 80m monthly users.

Mr Davis said while he cannot pinpoint tanımlamak exactly what the iconic game will look like benzemek, he knows it will have to have some key ingredients.

"We know it's going to be built ondayanmak realgerçek identitykimlikand around real friends. It is a game that will appealhoşuna gitmekto everybody across the board and taphafifçe dokunmakinto social emotions and generatedoğurmakfeelings you have never felt before. It will probablymuhtemelenbe personal to you because it will tap into all that information you have about you on Facebook."

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"The growthbüyümewe are seeing is amazinghayran edenand in a short space of time we have developed a brand newyepyeni masskitle marketpiyasaaudience for gaming," Mr Davis told BBC News.

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