Promising Networks to expand games to?

[Spudinski]

Hey everyone,

I was looking at an Facebook game engine just now, it's on these forums: FBGE I think.

I know that Social Networks like Facebook has great potential to extend a user base, but here are many aspects new/wannabe game developers just can't grasp.

I've been up and under the Facebook platform for the last two months, trying to make myself profound with it. I've taken allot in, and know how many applications operate in general and which methods they use.

Social Networks aren't entirely made for games, and the games people play on a Social Network wants to play is either where they can play with their friends or just to play for 10 minutes until they have to go again.

Large scale games in general, does not work so well on SN's like Myspace or Facebook. I was wondering if anyone knows about any other large scale networks that games a playable on, but would much better be suited for a long term RPG.

Other than that, I would like people to discuss the motivation you people(that have developed for Facebook in the past) see from players of those games, which makes them stay. I personally know that there are different motivations from playing a regular Text BRPG, between a faster pased Facebook game.

[Zeggy]

the games people play on a Social Network wants to play is either where they can play with their friends or just to play for 10 minutes until they have to go again

On a website like facebook that's just not true. There are all kinds of people on facebook, so there's a market for all kinds of games including in-depth rpgs. It just happens that the most popular games are casual social games since those have the largest audience - people who wouldn't normally consider themselves gamers. That's purely business though - social game developers don't care about content, they care about a proven business model that earns them money.

If you wanted to, I'm sure you could launch a moderately successful strategy game or in-depth rpg on facebook, but obviously it wouldn't have the same reach as the top facebook games.

If you're looking for a purely game-oriented social network, bigpoint is a very well-known one. There aren't many social network platforms specifically for gaming.