Facebook games
After reading a post on Brenda Brathwaites blog about facebook games and application spam, I had a few thoughts of my own.
As to the development of games, Facebook has an incredibly enviable position of owning a massive multiplayer userbase. Games like Tetris or Mario or Space Invaders or whatever are pointless in such an environment, but Scrabulous is massive because it is:
- A Casual game
- A Multiplayer game
- A Game everyone already knows how to play.
Unfortunately Scrabulous may not be around for much longer due to Intellectual Property issues.
What I expect to see soon is more turnbased multiplayer games hitting Facebook, and with the online capabilities of the current consoles, more interaction between the big league companies and Facebook. Xbox Live has recently proved with Carcassonne and Settlers of Catan that some board games can translate well to the electronic medium.
As an aside, I’m still surprised that there is not a full Xbox Live Friends management app in existence yet, something that mimics the dashboard.