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Title:
Zynga comes to the Palm!
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The Palm Prē WebOS® has now been drawn into the Zynga tornado. In the not too distant past it was only iPhones that could play a Zynga game on their PDA. With the release of the newest Zynga concept Rewardville is now functional on the Palm Prē. Most likely the simplicity of the interface presented by the Rewardville WebUI allows the game to operate on any PDA with a fully capable web browser. Unlike the layer and grafix intensive Frontierville (e.g) the Rewardville game interface is more like a menu screen. Rewardville is a 'support game' that exists purely to help the other Zynga titles. You don't need to be playing any of the Zynga Farm, Mafia, and Café Worlds to play Rewardville, but there is little point to installing the app onto your facebook if you don't know *at least* one person that plays the games.
Zynga has been making nothing but strides since their debut in 2007 with a poker app, Texas Hold'em. Zynga then spawnned about a dozen projects into the various realms of connect media applications. Mafia Wars, Farmville, and Café World are examples of the sim~like pastime games provided by Zynga. Some of Zynga's concepts, like Mafia Wars, are re-invisions of a whole genre of early Mys_Game Apps. There were dozens of similar concepts being produced using a 'wars' interface that Zynga outright outran in development and marketing. Not to mention outclassing most of their competition with phenomenal, compelling, and frequently updated art.
Zynga games are a Frisbee® of the Mybebobookut phenomena. The word itself means shoes or something in sanskrit, and my name means wet dirt in gealic! What Zynga has come to mean is a type of connect media experience that is inherently about playing with other people. Sure, you *can* poke around Treasure Island all day long without asking your friends for Banana's and Orange Gems, but 'connecting people through games' is the basic mentality of a company that started out with a virtual card game. I expect the future to bring the `Ville games line to Myspace and the other Connect Media Venues. I quite fondly look forward to opening my Café doors from Facebook to Myspace. I'll install a drive through for Bebo.. I even have a little marker placed to remind me of the plan I had one day during the first couple of weeks playing Café World! Zynga, and the other makers of zynga games such as Playdom, Kabam, and Rock You are going nowhere.
Data:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=134726908
http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/54815-zynga-implements-rewardville-to-further-addict-players
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/2015568/zynga_tempts_online_social_gamers_with_rewards/
http://www.rewardville.com
http://www.zynga.com
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