Applied Social Magic

Sharing my presentation at FlashGAMM as was announced.

«Applied Social Magic» — presentation and video for FlashGAMM #7 meeting.

Two years ago Twitter was regarded an entertainment and a time-killer. A year later commercial games on Twitter and Facebook became quite habitual and spread. The presentation gives the overview of various social media mechanisms – Stumbleupon, Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Digg, Blogspot, official and unspoken rules of societies, applications and services, as well as in-developed social media tools. The speaker will share practical skills, methods, results and statistics. A part of this information is formalizable, and a part seems pure magic.

I'm going to write short review article about FlashGAMM and share my impressions tomorrow. In short: It was just great. Thanks!

Applied social magic

Some text instead of games togay:
I'm going to Flash Gamm 2011 Kyiv 10-11 of December with a lecture “Applied social magic”.

Description:
Two years ago Twitter was regarded an entertainment and a time-killer. A year later commercial games on Twitter and Facebook became quite habitual and spread. The presentation gives the overview of various social media mechanisms – Stumbleupon, Reddit,  Twitter, Tumbler, Facebook, Digg, Blogspot, official and unspoken rules of societies, applications and services, as well as in-developed social media tools. The speaker will share practical skills, methods, results and statistics. A part of this information is formalizable, and a part seems pure magic.

About Speaker:
Semen Frish — co-founder of nucleart.net studio, one of the first Ukrainian flash developers, started working with Flash since Flash Player 4.0. He has been involded in over 100 multimedia, video and game projects as a manager and developer. 

Also I'll try to post more developers info in this blog. “Want to Make Games” article in progress and several game and application development articles in plans.

Thank You for reading, see You at Flash Gamm 2011 Kyiv 10-11 of December!

Social media integration, functionality and usability updates @ e+Games

It may seem that We are only playing, selecting, publishing games and posting feedback. Sure we are ^) It takes a lot of time actually. Anyway portal under development meanwhile. So we are optimizing all the processes to be faster, suitable and up to date:

1. Core optimization: Average Load Time for http://eplusgames.net/ Very Fast (0.778 Seconds), 81% of sites are slower @ http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/eplusgames.net - optimization rocks!

2. Social media integration: To existing Facebook sign in/log in functionality, added possibility to sign in/log in with Twitter, Tumbler and Google accounts. Account merging for existing users has been implemented. Also added speedy one click sharing functionality to e+CMS for Tumbler post with tags and linked pictures. The same functionality for Blogspot in progress.

Sign in/log in @ e+Games & upload Your game

3. Game publishing: Added optional uploader comment and game screen shot fields. Comment is used for panel social media sharing, screenshot is resized to 500px horizontal to meet Tumbler and Blogspot image media requirements.


Reminding that e+CMS is open source and free so You can request a copy here (sorry still no English site version yet.).

Also our new match three game is close to release so news on gamedev are coming soon.