Muzui, a social gaming site that lets you play casual mobile and Flash-based games online or on a cell phone with friends today announced that it has launched the service to the public.
When you decide to play a game in Muzui, you can either sign up or play as a guest. Both are free. If you play as a guest, you won’t be able to connect with friends in the social sphere, but you can play as much as you’d like. But the main premise of Muzui is to forgo playing alone and join the site to interact with others in a turn-based game environment.
Once you sign up (Muzui lets you use your Social ID from Facebook, or MSN if you’d prefer to use that), you can add friends and start playing games. If you play games with others, you can start collecting coins regardless of whether you win or lose. The coins act as a meter to show others how experienced you are in using the service and are supposed to help gauge your skill level.
Right now, the number of games on the site is relatively limited — there are only five games — but each gives you the option of downloading it to your cell phone and play with your friends when you’re on-the-go. In order to solve the problem of game availability, Muzui gives its users the opportunity to create Flash-based games and upload them to the site for others to play.
Users don’t make any money by creating their own games or game levels, but the company is offering prizes for the top users each month.
Muzui is competing in an extremely difficult space given the availability of iPhone gaming apps and countless online gaming sites. But it’s the social element and the ability to bring those online games to mobile phones that it believes will set it apart. Time will tell.
I can’t see this succeeding, but it is a pretty cool idea and one worth checking out, thanks.
The concept is great, but as stated in the article, the game selection is rather limited at the moment, which kinda kills the thrill after 10 minutes of gameplay- but with double the amount of games, i see no reason why this shouldn’t be the next social hype.
I keep getting JavaScript errors on anything I try to do on their site. Not a pleasant expeerience at all. They have a good idea but they don’t even have a decent web site to match it. The look-and-feel is far from attractive, and it appears way too busy.
Hey all,
I’m one of the founders of Muzui, and I am thrilled to see us mentioned here!
As a reply to the comments I can say, that we just launched and in the next month or so, we have a line of 15 games coming up.
You will also be able to play popular multiplayer games online against friends on their mobile.
Sorry ’bout the pimping, just psyched to see us on Techcrunch and excited to show you what’s coming up in the next month or two!
Anyway, let the comments roll!
Cheers,
David
online casual gaming network, hmm here’s http://playum.com
This project will fly like nothing else due to the unbeatable team – Muzui rocks! Keep up the good work