PopCap Planning Social Features, More Social Network Versions of Classics
Bishop gave the example of a future Peggle instalment showing players which 'Peggle masters' their friends are using, so they can question and taunt them appropriately.
New versions of unspecified PopCap franchises--a list also including Bookworm and Plants vs. Zombies--are planned for social networking sites, no doubt hoping to repeat the success of Bejeweled Blitz. According to Bishop, the Facebook title has ten million monthly users--a third of which play daily--and an average session time of 43 minutes. Blitz is supported by standalone PC and iPhone editions as well as microtransactions.
PopCap is due to reveal something Plants vs. Zombies-related on August 2. Initial speculation has pointed towards a sequel for the lawn defense game.
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Solice
replyGo ahead and integrate, just don't force me to use them... give me the option. I'm not a fan of social networking sites like MySpace or FaceBook and really don't care to have them shoved down my throat just so I can access some other feature of the game.
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Bejeweled's Blitz mode on the iPhone does this - it can publish to Facebook optionally. Of course the nature of the game mode (a hard timer) makes it sorta pointless if you're not doing Facebook.
I downloaded the Farmville app for the iPhone and thought I'd just see what it was like but it requires a Facebook login - fuck that-
it connects to your facebook farm afaik, it's a companion app.
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Same, i don't care about facebook, twitter and all the rest. It's a waste of time, and if i wanted to talk to someone i'd actually talk to them.
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