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There is already plenty of ways to fill your hours with fun on Facebook, but now Ubisoft step in to give further structure to the social network with UbiFriends the game portal.
Many in the games industry see social networking as a lucrative way to further expand the market.
Already there are plenty of light games on sites such as Facebook that are proving very popular with the wide demographic social-networking inhabitants.
Video game publisher/developer Ubisoft have today announced a new Facebook gaming portal platform.
Known as UbiFriends, the first game available on the portal is TickTock, a time pressure friend trivia game.
TickTock is a free application that utilises user-generated content from users' Facebook friends via their status updates as a resource necessary to succeed in the game. TickTock is among the first games developed for Facebook Platform by a major publisher that leverages users' Facebook friends in a meaningful way.
The game also reinforces the importance of a user's social graph and provides another way for players to interact with their friends on Facebook. The more friends a user has on Facebook, the more successful that player may be at TickTock.
Ubisoft promise that TickTock is only the beginning of many gaming applications to come.
The UbiFriends portal runs on Google App Engine, which makes web applications easy to build, scale and maintain.
According to Ubisoft: The UbiFriends portal embraces social media and the open technologies that power the web, highlighting Ubisoft's leadership and innovation in the gaming space. TickTock and the UbiFriends portal are the first projects developed by a dedicated internal team at Ubisoft's San Francisco office.
"We've been a leader in the art of making games for many years and we're happy to bring the Ubisoft experience to Facebook Platform," said Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America. "Our first application, TickTock, is about leveraging user generated content to interact with your friends, and it's the first of many applications that we're building for our UbiFriends portal."
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