Just when we thought we had enough of gaming, the rapidly increasing popularity of social gaming showed that we are heading towards an entirely new and even more addictive dimension of gaming. The concept of this new facet of online gaming took over the market in virtually no time. Not only a huge amount of habitual online gamers shifted to social gaming, but it also attracted a substantial number non-gamers.
The idea behind social gaming is to allow the users to play online games with their friends on single platform. It is different from other online games because you can play with a huge user base all across the globe and also can pick any of your real-life friends to play with you. You can share your scores on the social network and challenge your real-life friends in the virtual battlefield.
Majority of the people who are inclined towards this form of gaming are between the ages of 10 and 28. The main features that capture the attention of most teens are:
• Multiplayer gaming with their social connections
• Options like chatting and trading items with friends
• Community experience they provide to the users
• Competitions; where you can prove you are better than your other friends
These are some of the things that make social gaming experience so hard to resist. Teenagers spend several hours every day playing these games. Together they spend millions of hours looking after pets, managing farms, harvesting crops, building houses, milking cows, buying weapons, and trying to be a virtual gangster. Even they do not have a very strong graphical interface but they are still way more popular that most high definition PC or Mac games.
More than 100 Million people play online games over the social network every day and trade virtual goods of worth more than 600 Million Dollars. Marketers have also found this platform very promising for branding as it draws such gigantic traffic. They use these games to promote their brands and with that advertising money the developers make these games more interesting and engaging.
Recently a new social game, DayDream, has been introduced on Facebook and it has already started to multiply its fan base. It is a Role Playing Game, designed by Avenue Social Inc., which encompasses numerous possibilities that could occur in real life.
The game starts off with you winning a lottery of 300 Million Dollars. As per the terms of the lottery you have to prove that you are worthy of this amount. The winning amount is giving to you in smaller portions and as you advance in the game and show you are more worthy of this prize money than others playing this game, more of that amount is released for you to use.
DayDream reproduces a real life image of what happens when someone wins a lottery. You can make investments in stocks, property, deposit some cash in back, buy a new house, a new car, and amazing gadgets and live your dream lifestyle. The amount of risk you take and the courage you display will determine your worthiness of getting a bigger portion of the amount.
This game is a proof that social gaming withholds limitless potential and we could safely expect that these attention grabbing games will continue to impress the users in the future.