Yesterday you saw one half of the Gamezebo virtual office, and now it's time for the rest. In this edition of Gamezebo Cribs we're taking a look at the offices of PC and Mac downloads editor Erin Bell, as well as president and founder Joel Brodie. This is the end of our two-week long behind the scenes look at the casual games industry, but don't worry! We'll be continuing the Cribs series with one-off stories in the future. In the meantime, let's check out the rest of Team Gamezebo's office space.
Party games - not games that you play at a party, but games about throwing parties - have become a bit of a trend on Facebook lately. Ubisoft's Party Central is the latest to hit the social network, and like Atommica's Home Fest it's about having a party at your house and seeing how many guests you can get to show up.
From Six Flags Mascot Park to Cadbury Crunchie's Friday Town, branded social games are starting to appear more frequently on Facebook. The latest is Playdom's Pet Resort, a pet-themed spin on the shop management genre sponsored by pet food manufacturer Purina.
Tim and his mischievous friends got themselves into quite a pickle when they discovered Grandpas latest invention at his birthday party: The Time Machine. In the upcoming hidden object / adventure game from Gogii Games (of Nanny Mania, Escape the Museum and The Hidden Object Show fame) entitled The Clumsy's, help Grandpa track down 20 kids who have been lost in time and clean up any traces they left behind. Who knows what kind of chain reaction a toy car could cause in the year 200BC?
You may not have heard of Walter Wick, but he's the genius responsible for arranging and photographing the scenes in the wonderful I Spy book series - so in a way, you could call him one of the founding fathers of hidden object games. Can You See What I See? features some of Wick's most striking scenes in a charming seek-and-find adventure game.
Check out our tips and tricks for Chocolatier. Warning: Spoiler Alert! General Tips -If you sell too much of one type of chocolate, you'll saturate the market and prices will plummet. Change up your recipes every few months so that this doesn't happen. -Don't buy ingredients you don't need. Any ingredients that aren't being used in production will deteriorate in storage and be lost. -If you haggle with a merchant too often, h...