“Hundreds of millions of dollars will flow to Facebook and MySpace game developers this year.” – insidefacebook.com
The Facebook phenomenon has social media face first. To be specific, there are over 300 million Facebook users, over 6 billion minutes spent on Facebook on any given day, and 10 million of these users become fans of different pages each day. If you are able to harness the technology at your fingertips, the advantage is yours!
Interested in game development? Want to leverage your development skills for online social networking platforms? If yes & yes, then this class is for you. We’ll cover best practices for building portable applications that scale across multiple platforms and devices, architecting for high-load systems, and introductions to the iPhone SDK and APIs for Facebook & Facebook Connect. You will also learn common social gaming structures and gameplay characteristics, such as Casual MMOs, Immersive Worlds, and Asynchronous Games, as well as some of the business aspects of social games such as Customer Acquisition and Retention and Monetization Infrastructure.
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