ohai — this week Nick Saint of the Business Insider reports on a crazy new Facebook trend: “Games That Are Actually Good“. And look who’s included in the Business Insider’s three examples:
ohai, founded and headed up by angel investor, former VC, and serial entrepreneur Susan Wu, launched its first game, City of Eternals, a few months ago. The game combines some of the viral features and monetization strategies of traditional Facebook games with gameplay elements of massively-multiplayer online roleplaying games.
Oh Nick Saint, you are a saint. We’re aiming to shape the future of social games, so we appreciate the shout-out. And we’re honored to be mentioned alongside Stewart Butterfield and Sid Meier, two dudes we totally admire. Now to keep earning that accolade with more kickass games, starting soon with (drum roll) Project Unicorn Parade!
ohai, this is excellent and humbling news: Chief ohai Susan Wu is the top selection in “The Gamers” category of Fast Company’s new cover story, “Most Influential Women in Technology 2010“! We ohais are gratified to get our efforts to shape the future of social gaming recognized by such a great site. Includes a good interview with Susan, who talks virtual goods and building massively social online games. As she puts it to Fast Company, “[T]here’s entire new generations of social games that are going to be coming to market that will transform how people think about playing with each other online.” Speaking of which, look for news on our next game very very very soon!
ohai, we just got gratifying coverage of City of Eternals, our first MMO, on ABC News’ TechBytes! Video embedded below — the CoE love starts 60 seconds in:
ABC’s review is by Games.com Editor-in-Chief Libe Goad, once named among the “50 Most Influential Games journalists” — but we want to nominate her Best Game Journalist EVAR. Because more than just liking City of Eternals, Libe really gets our vision of how games can foster more fulfilling social interactions and relationships. As she puts it:
“You can actually chat with people in [City of Eternals]… You see their little Facebook icon pop up and you can actually message them and get to know them. It’s taking social networking that we know on Facebook and taking it to the next level.”
Simply put, we are building games that are truly social. We at ohai believe that we’re still in the first generation of social games. Through more engaging stories, richer world environments, and deeper game play mechanics, we’re heralding an entirely new generation of social games. And, we’re just getting started. Our next game is going to rock.
ohai — this week Nick Saint of the Business Insider reports on a crazy new Facebook trend: “Games That Are Actually Good“. And look who’s included in the Business Insider’s three examples:
ohai, this is excellent and humbling news: Chief ohai Susan Wu is the top selection in “The Gamers” category of Fast Company’s new cover story, “
ohai, we just got gratifying coverage of