A new alternative for reading history books was introduced few years back. It includes events of international importance which requires inactive reading for a longtime. Kids usually do not enjoy this form of learning, and they’ve been waiting for a fun-filled alternative. Over the past 30 years, video games have become an integral part of our culture, and the video game industry has become a multi-billion dollar behemoth. Secondly, although recession has caught up with the video game industry, it’s hardly done anything to stop the growth of one sector – social gaming. So certainly we’re talking about introducing online games based on true-life events and heroes that once shook the world.
For instance, Tipu Sultan – The Tiger of Mysore, Astronaut Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 and others. Of course, playing games like Mafia Wars, Farm Town and Restaurant City on social networking sites has bewitched more than 10 million users.
At WATBlog NDTV Convergence – Zapak Games‘ tie-up was covered and we highlighted about Zapak and other portals who are focusing more on providing white label deals to Online biggies as this garners them enough audience and Online exposure in short time involving less cost. Recently Zapak launched a historical game — The Tiger of Mysore. The event was set in the year 1766 and revolves around Tipu Sultan’s frontier fortress. So in future if you want your kids to learn about Tip Sultan’s feats, you know where to go!
Similarly Games2Win has launched Apollo 11: Mission to the Moon. It animates the first manned mission to the moon. Four decisive levels that made Apollo 11 a successful operation constitute this revolutionary game. It can also be accessed on Facebook. “Games2Win is at the forefront of producing historical games for the 200+ million consumers who play Flash games each month,” said Alok Kejriwal, CEO and co-founder of Games2Win who spoke to Reuters.
Onlinegames.net introduced games on Rani Rudrama Devi, a powerful queen of Andhra Pradesh and the Kurukshetra. While seven more games based on historical themes will be launched by the end of this year as quoted by L Maruti Sanker, Managing Director of 7Seas to exchange4media.
Social Gaming –
India being on the verge of a digital revolution, also highlighted about wide popularity of gaming sites as respondents who referred to gaming sites on a daily basis registered a three-fold rise in numbers. The social gaming category has its roots in casual gaming, where users played alone and titles cost a fee to download. Social games, on the other hand, are built to be enjoyed and shared with friends through existing social networks and platforms for free. Besides being free to play, which is always appealing, especially during a recession. Developers make their money back through ads, marketing offers, and sales of virtual goods and in-game currencies. The new social-game companies are helping shape the debate on new business models for the larger video game industry. So the bottomline is that they are launching games in a much larger number of players with a free price and then monetizing a fraction of them, companies like Zynga and Playfish can still make plenty of money. Despite being a small segment, social gaming popularity on sites like Facebook and MySpace has exploded on a large scale. Let’s take a look at the top 5 social games -
What’s your take on this analysis? Is there more room for advertisers or a greater scope for gaming entities?
