Slight rethink

September 23, 2009 on 3:56 pm | In Game System | No Comments

So much for me thinking that things were going to get quieter :s

I’ve had a rethink about the overall platform with which to use as the backing to W2 and am currently considering using Facebook as the back-end for the ‘user’.  There are a number of reasons for this.

  • Firstly people really don’t want to register for yet another game system, providing their email, name etc and creating a new password.  Most people have a Facebook account and the developer tools are actually excellent for any application developer.  This would also result in less hoax accounts being created.
  • Next up is really a marketing issue, bearing in mind how quickly the original game got distributed, by me just passing the link onto two people, the potential for distribution via Facebook is huge.
  • The mechanism within Facebook for posting notices to a person’s wall facilitates the ‘invite a friend’ concept that the original game had that I had considered dropping as it was ‘gimicky’, the Facebook platform automatically prevents the system from being abused as well.
  • I’m not going to have to build a complex chat mechanism

So there you have it.

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