Facebook Trumps

See: http://www.facebooktrumps.com/2007/08/my-friends-are-better-than-your-friends.html

My friends are better than your friends! That was the original idea, as it came to me - and lo and behold, the subject of the first comment I have had from a stranger on the Facebook Application page:

write.....so you dont actually play against your friends.......maybe thats the reason why im the only user [sic]

This guy has a point. The fun of it comes from challenging your friends. Thus I propose:

1. When you add Facebook Trumps it will save your Trumpstack.
2. When you challenge another friend who has added Facebook Trumps you will still play against the AI (if you can call it that), but rather than the Robot you will see your friends face and play against their friends.
3. People who have the app will get a "challenge me at Facebook Trumps" button on their profile, so I can get a bit of viral growth going.

So that's the plan. No requirement for live multiplayer, but an added dimension nonetheless.

Labels: application

The cart here comes slightly before the horse. Strictly, I believe a desktop application would be a more suitable form for a game. The Facebook API, which is required to access the friends this game is predicated upon, supports desktop applications so this certainly would have been an option.

The web, however, is the future- that is plainly how it seems to me. The web primarily is where I should like to gather skills and so I have chosen that this game will be browser based.

Other advantages exist, of course. The game becomes more accessible as the user does not have to download installation packages and run installers. The web has a far greater propensity to allow code to be platform neutral. The game must use the web as its platform.

Labels: application, desktop, web