Social Times has my interview with the CEO behind Backyard Monsters, which you may remember me writing about here last month as the Facebook game for gamers who hate Facebook games. Since then, it's grown by about 750K monthly active users, and now has just shy of 1 million total -- proof positive a relatively complex “gamer’s game” can work on a social network, without any brainless clicking of cows or other farm animals. Interestingly, 30% of the player base is female, and 20% of players don't attack others, because they prefer to spend all their time building and tinkering with their monster base, often turning them into amazing garden sculptures and other designs. (Which come to think of it, given SL's activity distributions, suggests that about as many people regularly spend their time creating 3D content in Backyard Monsters as do in Second Life.) Anyway, much more here. And if you think you can successfully invade my base (buahahahaha bring it), go here to play Backyard Monsters.
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I play Backyard Monsters. When I attack people a couple of times, more often than not they ask for a truce.
Posted by: misnomer | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 09:38 PM
My mom doesn't let me have a Facebook and I've seen my brothers play and It would be cool if you made it a 99 or 1.99 app not using Facebook. I for one would buy it I woul buy it probably up to 4.99.
Posted by: Colin | Sunday, April 08, 2012 at 08:30 PM