Comments on: Facebook virtual worlds

By: 20071114 - Adam Crowe

20071114 - Adam Crowe — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:02:50 +0000

[...] Raph Koster – Facebook virtual worlds “… fundamentally, most people *check* Facebook, you don’t *live* on Facebook. It’s about bursts of time. As a result, the most popular game is Scrabulous, which is turn-based.” (tags: virtualworlds facebook gamemechanics gameplay augmentationistvsimmersionist behaviours place socialnetworking) [...]

By: Sketch Quest - Sam's & HanClinto's Wiki

Sketch Quest - Sam's & HanClinto's Wiki — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:57:27 +0000

[...] a blog post of Raph Koster’s, here are his guidelines for developing a Facebook game. I would like to follow these principles [...]

By: Virtual Worlds News: Interview: SceneCaster Tops Facebook's Most Active Apps

Virtual Worlds News: Interview: SceneCaster Tops Facebook's Most Active Apps — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:36:46 +0000

[...] we first looked at virtual worlds on Facebook, barely over a month ago, SceneCaster had 32 daily active users, This Saturday, with over 12,000 active users, SceneCaster became the most active app on Facebook. [...]

By: Tuple vs. Kipple - Joel Greenberg - Electric Sheep Company » Blog Archive » Is the Yankee Group Insane?

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:24:18 +0000

[...] even that’s not a shoe-in, as Raph Koster points out in his recent post on Facebook Virtual Worlds. As an industry, we need to get better at thinking through the experience. I bet that is easier to [...]

By: Ian Liew

Ian Liew — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:27:03 +0000

I disagree that Facebook is a tool purely for finding other people and keeping them informed of our progress in life. The only reason I moved from Friendster to Facebook was because Facebook aloowed much more interactivity with your contacts, as opposed to just seeing their picture, looking at their profiles when they upload something new or sending them a message once in a while, you can actually play games with them and interact on a regular basis even when you haven’t really got anything to say. Bored? Engage an old friend (who you might never ever see again in RL) game of Scrabulous, or drop them a challenge to respond to a high score in Tower Bloxx, or race them in (fluff)Race or just feed their pet to show them you care and are still thinking of them. For those who have vampires/werewolves/zombies/slayers, have a little scrap and see who comes out top, poke them, throw them burgers, Jedi-choke them .. whatever. What is actually done is irrelevant, much of it is. It’s the knowledge that anytime, anywhere, you can reach out to your old friends and interact with them just for fun, and just to let them know you are around.

Of course, there’s the problem that some people who don’t want to play certain things keep getting bothered by it, but over time we learn to figure out which of our friends like what sort of things, and only involve them in the activities we know they will respond to. We’re all friends, after all. If users go about simply adding any Tom, Dick or Harry to their friend list simply because they were asked, or because they can gain benefits from certain applications then it’s their fault that they let strangers into their lives. As far as I’m concerned, my friends drive the applications I use, not the other way around.

By: Playing games with Facebook: the future of virtual worlds | Games | Guardian Unlimited

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:58:18 +0000

[...] Life Link app, which shows off your SL avatar to your Facebook mates. There are others, but as Raph explains, not very many people are using ‘em. Sure, they support social interaction, but they do [...]

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:39:27 +0000

You nailed it here, Raph. I signed up for the Second Life one because I had this odd idea that while in that “time burst” on FB, I might want a brief glance at the friend list in SL…except I don’t. It’s really enough. These things do not all HAVE to mash up, meld, integrate, be interoperable, blah blah blah. It’s fine if they have separate entrances and exits, and when I’m ready to do my SL job or go talk to those SL friends, I open up SL itself, which after all, isn’t that hard.

By: links for 2007-11-14 at antinomian.com

links for 2007-11-14 at antinomian.com — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:24:40 +0000

[...] Raph’s Website » Facebook virtual worlds Getting Closer… (tags: facebook VirtualWorlds) [...]

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:16:24 +0000

Here, I found you very well explained about “a host of plausible reasons.” The other day I saw an article which says that we can go to our own Facebook world where only our friends move, and we can customize our own world just like our page.

By: Adam Crowe - links for 2007-11-14

Adam Crowe - links for 2007-11-14 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:44:45 +0000