Taking advantage of the amazing new features of iOS 7, Wooga has unveiled today a new global league system update for their popular gem-matching game, Diamond Dash. The announcement marks Diamond Dash as being the very first arcade game to incorporate a global multiplayer league system, in which you'll be able to compete against 173 million other players from all over the world, to find out just who's the best at matching those gems.Here's how the new global league system in Diamond Dash is going to work: players will first work their way through the beginning Bronze, Silver, and Gold leagues, before moving their gem-rushing skills up the ladder to compete in the prestigious Diamond League. The system will also match players against each other according to their own personal skill, and the leagues are also said to provide cross-platform support on both iPhone and iPad, for the 33 million players who have downloaded the game on iOS since its initial App Store release in December of 2011."And since this is a worldwide event we're talking about here, Wooga has also given us a few global statistics about where Diamond Dash players stand so far. For instance, the player with the best average score currently lives in the Vatican City, while the players who blast the most gems per round typically seem to be from Taiwan and Austria. So will you be starting up your own Diamond Dash league this week and putting your country on the gem-matching map? Be sure to let us know down in the replies!
Timo Dries, Product Manager at Wooga, believes that love, passion, and creativity are important ingredients to a good social game. If utilized correctly, they can the hook the player in ways a game defined by metrics and statistics never could. Dries gave a talk on the subject at this year's Casual Connect Europe.
Although they've been there since the launch of the games service for Google+, Wooga will be removing their games from the platform come July 1st. It should come as no surprise that a lack of users is the catalyst for the removal, a problem the social network has struggled with since day one.
We're live blogging from the Inside Social Apps 2012 Conference in San Francisco, from Philz Coffee a few blocks a way. While other attendees discuss and pretend to understand such industry jargon such as "velocity" and "ad mediation," I sip my favorite coffee in the world and type away. The big takeaways from the show so far: Facebook Credits conversion rates are much lower than expected and you need to spend a lot of money to make it big on the iPhone and Android platforms. If you are a small developer, life is tough.
Wooga's hit Facebook puzzler Diamond Dash has finally made its way to the App Store. Originally slated for a summer mobile release, the iOS version of the match-3 game is now available for free to players in 120 different countries.
In this latest edition of Gamezebo Cribs we're heading to Berlin, Germany to take a good look at where the folks at wooga work. In case you didn't know, since being founded just two years ago wooga has managed to become not only the biggest social game developer in Europe with over 35 million monthly active users, but one of the biggest in the world as well. And it's all thanks to games like Diamond Dash and Bubble Island, as well as more recent releases like Magic Land. Soon you'll be seeing wooga games on mobile platforms as well. Let's take a look at where all those games get made.
Earlier this year wooga, the developer behind social games like Bubble Island and Magic Land, announced that it had become the fourth biggest game developer on Facebook. Currently wooga boasts more than 30 million monthly active users between all of its games. Not only that, but the developer was one of the launch partners with Google+ games and has plans to bring Diamond Dash to mobile phones, expanding its reach even further. Gamezebo spoke with wooga CEO Jens Begemann about the company's quick rise and where it hopes to move in the future.
After becoming one of the largest game developers on Facebook thanks to hits like Bubble Island and Monster World, Wooga has now set its sites on the mobile space. And it all starts with Diamond Dash, which is due to hit both the iPhone and iPad later this summer.