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Hidden Chronicles: Zynga’s First Hidden-Objects Game

January 5, 2012

Leading social game maker, Zynga, launched its first hidden object and puzzle game on Facebook titled “Hidden Chronicles.”

Hidden Chronicles has familiar features with other hidden-object and puzzle games with intricate scenes and a list of hidden objects that players must find before time runs out, in order to gather points and to progress with the story.

fbgame hiddenchronicles 300x250 Hidden Chronicles: Zyngas First Hidden Objects GameIn Hidden Chronicles, players are lead through the game with a narrative. On starting the game, you are summoned to your Uncle Jeffrey’s estate, after his suspicious death. It’s up to you now, to unlock different location at his mansion and various parts of the estate and progress with the story of the game.

The game also includes leaderboards, a home base (players own Manor, which can be customize), quests, and several mini-games inside the game. The game also has some surprise elements, like certain scenes in the game becomes available when players challenge a friend to a contest. In addition, certain scenes can only be unlocked with reputation points, which you can amass by doing things such as sending gifts to friends.

The graphics of the game has a photorealistic style, quite different from the cartoonish graphics most of Zynga’s other games sports.

The team behind Hidden Chronicles includes some big names like Cara  Ely (as Creative director), veteran hidden object game creator well known for creating the popular Dream Day Wedding series, and Margaret Foley-Mouvais, former art director for titles such as “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Godfather”.

Hidden object games have been around and popular for quite some time. Looking forward with a hope that Zynga’s little romance with this genre will bring about a breath of fresh air to this genre.

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Zynga Expands Facebook Version of ‘Words With Friends’

August 6, 2011

Zynga, the world’s leading game developer for the first time has expanded a mobile version of ‘Words With Friends’ to the Facebook version. The company has also previously moved its popular online games including FarmVille to mobile devices.

‘Words With Friends’ was actually launched in 2009, which has been a hit among iOS and Android device users. It is a scrabble like social word building game which provides a really fun and friendly competition. The Facebook version will be inter operable with current version of the game for Apple and Android devices, whereby you can stop and continue the exact same game from either platform.

Bringing the game to Facebook literally opens the game up to a massive audience on the social network. The game will have all the current features and functionality besides additional social features like:
BRAG FEEDS- It allows players to call out their friends publicly on their News Feed for owing them with the nasty triple word score.
NEW NOTIFICATION- it alert players when it’s their turn.
WALL-TO- WALL COMBAT: the ability to post new games challenges on your friends’ walls.

Zynga has more than 230 million monthly active users. It has not yet monetized Words with Friends. The game is available on Facebook’s app site.

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Zynga Released Its PrivacyVille Game: Less Of Gaming And More Of Tutorial

July 8, 2011

Zynga Released Its PrivacyVille Game: Less Of Gaming And More Of Tutorial

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Social gaming giant Zynga today released PrivacyVille, a fully gamified means of exploring the company’s privacy policies. It is less of a game and much as a tutorial. It let users to know on how Zynga deals with the issue of online privacy and also offer tips to players on how to play online safely and secure their personal information.

The game is design in a CityVille style map and through the flow of the game there is lot of learning about different aspect of online privacy such as email, personal information, online games and payments. The players are rewarded with zpoints, if correctly answered to test questions, which can later be exchanged for virtual items in Zynga games. The whole process takes a few minutes and its a great and engaging way to make sure that privacy policy makes sense and that users play and learn about it.

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To play privacyVille game, you don’t have to register with Zynga or be connected with Facebook unlike Zynga’s other games. But if you are a registered Zynga player, then you will get the access to reward points(zPoints).

However, PrivacyVille game is to be considered as educational and is “not a substitute” for the company’s official privacy policy or privacy Center”. The game is indeed a “fun and rewarding way to learn about our key practices and information and resources that will assist you with general online privacy”.

Though the game is a bit irony because Zynga earns most of its money via Facebook and Zynga is making a privacy statement on Facebook and if something goes peeved about Facebook’s privacy policy then it will definitely affect the use of Zynga’s  application. But to the greater extend it encourage Zynga players to know how their personal data is being used.

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