Put Your Game Face On And Plant Some Trees With SGN
by Jason Kincaid on August 1, 2008

Social Gaming Network, a startup behind a number of popular social network games, has partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation to create a Facebook game to raise money for, of all things, planting trees. SGN has created a game called “Space Movers: The Bloom Initiative”, and will donate up to $50,000 of the game’s advertising revenue to the cause. You can check out the app by going here.

The game itself plays almost exactly like Bejeweled, with a few goofy characters and icons that all fit under a vague “nature” theme. And while the gameplay may not be too original, the game has high production values, with a full soundtrack and animations.

The partnership is the latest in a string of unconventional promotions we’ve seen from developers on social networks, who are going to great lengths to increase exposure and help their games “go viral”. Last month Slide partnered with VH1 to to promote its application alongside a marathon of reality shows.

SGN focuses on games that include social interaction, and claims 1.1 million daily active users across Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, and hi5, with a reported 54 million application installs. The company has raised some serious cash, with over $20 million in funding and investors including Jeff Bezos. Zynga, its closest competitor, recently closed a $29 million Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, and has raised a total of nearly $40 million.

Comments

planting trees? wow, what hippie at SGN came up with that crappy idea?

 
 

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The site itself looks pretty awesome, just not so sure about the tree part

 

Lame, yet another boring match3 game with themes stolen from Wall-E movie and (lil) green patch application.

Building high quality art is not a big deal with 20M in funding, but where is creativity or innovation? Yawn.

 

The Nokia N96 16 GB is a fully loaded mobile phone. Michael just talk about it.

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20MIL behind this?!!! wow. I think it should have richer content.
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meh i wouldn’t want to play this game :P they should come up with something more original and fun =\

 

Facebook is genius. Have the VC’s part with their money to build the facebook website for free then the VC’s end up holding nothing but companies with no website or business of their own.

 

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