Heyzap(YC W09) Launches Platform to Take Facebook Games to Entire Web

http://games.venturebeat.com/2010/03/23/heyzap-lets-facebook-game-developers-publish-their-games-to-the-web/

by dwynings • 16 years ago

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kaichang• 16 years ago

Sweet!

jackowayed2• 16 years ago

Given that Facebook has >300M users, how necessary is this? Are there really many people who want to play social games but not join the largest social network in the world?

Edit: The thought occurred that Facebook may be blocked in China, and it appears that it is (or at least was for awhile? My hits were all for one instance of them blocking it, but I couldn't find anything about whether it stayed blocked). So that could be part of the reason for doing this.

benologist2• 16 years ago

There is a massive audience for games outside of Facebook.

Several sites on the internet number below or around Alexa 1,000 catering to these players - ArmorGames.com, AddictingGames.com (MTV), Kongregate.com, MiniClip.com etc.

For as many users as Facebook has it's still only 1/4 of the internet.

jackowayed2• 16 years ago

I bet that a pretty high percentage of some of those sites' userbases have Facebook accounts.

But that's true that it's only 1/4 of the Internet.

gruseom• 16 years ago

Here's a data point for you: not ten minutes ago, I went to try a games site, it asked me for my Facebook login, and I bailed. That's probably the tenth time I've done that in the last few years (I'm a very occasional FB user and just can't be bothered). Admittedly, I'm far from any of the demographics Heyzap would be targeting, but still, it's a data point.

Heyzap(YC W09) Launches Platform to Take Facebook Games to Entire Web

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