Zynga buys MyMiniLife
Zynga has acquired MyMiniLife — likely in large part for the technology, since it drives their hit Farmville. MyMiniLife itself has around 4m users.
Game talk
This is the catch-all category for stuff about games and game design. It easily makes up the vast majority of the site’s content. If you are looking for something specific, I highly recommend looking into the tags used on the site instead. They can narrow down the hunt immensely.
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WebGL vs O3D
For those wondering about WebGL versus Google’s extant O3D plugin, there’s an interesting thread going on here: WebGL – O3D-discuss | Google Groups.
Some choice quotes:
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Donating content to all of us
A study last year conducted by members of PRS for Music, a nonprofit royalty collection agency, found that of the 13 million songs for sale online last year, 10 million never got a single buyer and 80 percent of all revenue came from about 52,000 songs. That’s less than one percent of the songs.
I wonder what the stats are for Flash games, for indie games, for ads on streaming videos or on YouTube?
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Browser makers go for WebGL
Movement happened today on the “built-in 3d support for the web” front as a whole bunch of folks announced support for the Khronos standard, which basically puts OpenGL with Javascript bindings in an HTML5 canvas.
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PuzzleBloom
PuzzleBloom. Made in Unity, looks like. Very nice.