Players are discovering and playing your games? Check! Now, it's time to start thinking strategically about how to keep the players engaged and happy so that your games will be a continual hit.
Forget Paris! The place to get engaged these days is in the social game Crime City, on Google+. According to Mashable, a character named "Mihai" purchased a virtual engagement ring (created by the game's developer, Funzio) which appeared in both his and his soon-to-be fiance's inventory, and then Mihai virtually proposed to Miruna. Of course, this could be just a clever publicity stunt for Funzio.
Crime City developer Funzio has announced that it will be receiving $20 million in Series A funding. The developer will be using the funding to expand its operations and attempt to follow up the success of Crime City, which currently has just over 7.5 million monthly active users.
It all started out so innocently. For years now, Facebook has been rightly or wrongly associated with disarmingly endearing characters and bucolic bouts of farming, and most brutal action largely goes on in text in grittier games such as Mafia Wars. MetroGames' Auto Hustle seeks to change all that. Taking Rockstar's famed and controversial Grand Theft Auto formula and sprinkling it with a few doses of social gaming, Auto Hustle brings GTA's saga of car theft, mass murder, and inevitable reckless driving to Facebook while suffering a few wrecks in the process.