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| − | Playfish is a developer of free to play casual social gaming that can be played on social networking platforms such as [[Facebook]], [[MySpace]], Bebo and iPhone, among others. The company is headquartered in London |
+ | Playfish is a developer of free to play casual social gaming that can be played on social networking platforms such as [[Facebook]], [[MySpace]], Bebo and iPhone, among others. The company is headquartered in London, England, and has offices in Beijing, China; San Francisco, United States; and Tromso, Norway. Playfish games are continually enhanced with new features and challenges. Games are usually initially released on [[Facebook]] before making their way onto other platforms. |
Pet Society is Playfish's most popular game and has more than 1,000,000 fans on its [[Facebook]] page, and it's one of the fastest growing third party applications on Facebook. |
Pet Society is Playfish's most popular game and has more than 1,000,000 fans on its [[Facebook]] page, and it's one of the fastest growing third party applications on Facebook. |
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Revision as of 06:11, 29 August 2009
Playfish is a developer of free to play casual social gaming that can be played on social networking platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and iPhone, among others. The company is headquartered in London, England, and has offices in Beijing, China; San Francisco, United States; and Tromso, Norway. Playfish games are continually enhanced with new features and challenges. Games are usually initially released on Facebook before making their way onto other platforms.
Pet Society is Playfish's most popular game and has more than 1,000,000 fans on its Facebook page, and it's one of the fastest growing third party applications on Facebook.
History
Playfish was founded in 2007 by Kristian Segerstrale, Sebastien de Halleux, Sami Lababidi, and Shukri Shammas. In October 2008, they secured $17 million USD in venture capital funding from Accel Partners and Index Ventures.
Who has the Biggest Brain? was the company's first hit. It was one of the first Facebook games to attract millions of daily players, and allowed the company to raise funding necessary to produce other hits.
List Of Games
The company has created ten games:
Pet Society - virtual pet game
Who Has The Biggest Brain? - game show themed skill based challenge
Word Challenge - word construction from scrambled letters
Geo Challenge - time based geographic location challenge
Bowling Buddies - 3D bowling with intuitive controls
Minigolf Party- 3D golfing game
Restaurant City - resource management game
Crazy Planets- Strategy game to destroy robots
Country Story- farming game
Quiztastic! - quizzes made by users
External links
Text taken from Wikipedia.