GameCity at Cartoons on the Bay

GameCity logo
GameCity will be presented at the Cartoons on the Bay event, from 7 to 10 April in Rapallo, Santa Margherita and Portofino.

GameCity is the new meta-game produced by alittleb.it for Nickelodeon that will be published on nicktv.it portal. It provides a gaming experience based on a fictional city where players can create a super hero and use a vehicle to patrol the streets, visiting four different districts branded by the Nickelodeon ips: Spongebob, The Penguins of Madagascar , Avatar and The Fairly OddParents.

At Cartoons on the Bay will be available two iMac demo stations dedicated to the audience so everyone can try the game for the first time, challenging other users and beginning to unlock points, gadgets and awards.

GameCity is developed with our Social Game Development Platform: LUDUM.
LUDUM: Social Games Development Platform

LUDUM – A Platform to Quickly Develop Flash Social Games

LUDUM

  • Single engine for both social games and Intranet Social E-learning or Productivity Games
  • Quicker development process leading to faster time to market
  • Already used on several successful cases (e.g. games for MTV, Nickelodeon, Astrazeneca)
  • Statistics and Google Analytics connection
  • Asynchronous multiplayer gameplay
  • Allow work-in-progress optimization and scheduled update

    • Alittleb.it introduces its new flash social game development platform: LUDUM

    LUDUM is a flexible technology that allows us to quickly develop customizable social games and advergames.
    LUDUM joins the existing Alittleb.it & DarkWave Games’ UnderWAVE: a proprietary framework to develop 2D multiplatform games (for iOS, Android, PC, Mac & Linux).

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    Following the big success of Camp Orange’s Social Web Games, Alittleb.it has created the social game “Avventura da Paura” (Scary Adventure – Avventura da Paura’s Social Web Game) for MTV Italy and Nickelodeon. The game is published on nicktv.it portal – http://avventuradapaura.nicktv.it/gioco.html.

    Avventura da Paura is a Nickelodeon’s Adventure Broadcast-Game  that goes on air on Nickelodeon (the Mtv’s teen channel).

    alittleb.it created the game concept, the design and the graphics, and made an hard work on writing the Flash (AS3) and PHP5 code of the Web Game Avventura da Paura.

    Avventura da Paura is at most a reskin and upgrade of Camp Orange’s Social Web Games: this was possible because of the flexibility of our Social Game Development Platform (LUDUM).
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    Game-Design Evolution – The Seven Deadly Sins Theory

    The second of the series of posts about the new objectives of game designers: today, game designers have to consider revenue issues and business models since the beginning of their creative processes.

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    But, at the same time, it is necessary to consider the monetization power of that mechanic, since monetizing has become a crucial and essential part of game design.
    The technique adopted by Weidemann is interesting, but it is also cynical. It is based on the exploration – or rather, on the monetization – of human weaknesses, that he called The Seven Deadly Sins. Not only because of his name, it has caused a lot of reactions within the community of developers; however, in our opinion, it is a correct logic.

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    Game-Design Evolution – Introduction

    This will be the first of a series of posts about the new objectives of game designers.
    Today, in fact, social-game designers have to consider revenue issues and business models since the beginning of their creative processes.

    Games are one of the main reasons why people visit Facebook. In fact, it is estimated that about 40% of users are online to play social games. This means that more than two hundred million people enjoy playing on Facebook every month, and that the top ten titles on social network can boast over twelve million users each.

    In the same way as the entertainment industry is rapidly moving toward online business models, for example cloud gaming, digital delivery and social gaming, so game designers need to adapt to this situation too. They have to develop their technical-cultural knowledge in order to link creativity with market laws, which have to be more and more aggressive and innovative; so, today, game designers have to find the perfect mix between fun factors and revenues.
    This does not imply a leveling of gameplay in favor of monetizing for its own sake: in fact, gameplay is gaining importance even more than before, because of the fierce competition and the staggering growth of the sector. However, gameplay is increasingly focused on simplicity and on the emotional stimulus rather than on actions to do or on th aesthetic depth of the ludic architecture.Read More

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