By now, many of you have heard about Spymaster, the viral game that uses your Twitter social graph to play and get more users into the game. Well guess what? It’s coming to that network with even more users, Facebook.
The integration should be launched at some point today, co-founder Chris Abad tells us. But the key is that this will not be playable on Facebook’s site like many of the gaming apps built for that platform are, instead this will use Facebook Connect to pipe updates into the social network, just as it works with sending updates to Twitter.
And users on Twitter and Facebook will be able to play at the same time against one another. Players on the different networks will be distinguished by the different icons. And you can link up accounts on both Twitter and Facebook at the same time.
Spymaster caused quite a bit of controversy shortly after its launch as some followers of players on Twitter felt they were being spammed by the game. Since then, Spymaster and others have taken a few steps to make it easier to blunt some of the more viral-like elements of the game. But really, we felt the game just showed the need for Twitter to add at least some basic forms of filters on its core offering.
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nd despite this blunting, Spymaster says it is already monetizing its product. “We started monetizing about a week ago. So far we’re seeing very high numbers in terms of revenue per user, as well as conversion rates. I can’t share specific numbers with you just yet, but Super Rewards (our partner for our virtual goods store) says we’re knocking it out of the park against comparables,” Abad tells us.
Heres the main issues though, Spymaster sucks.
No, I disagree. The game is damn interesting and you just get addicted to it. Only thing is the spamming part. With the new measures, I think that should also be taken care off.
Brilliant!!!
These guys have a great eye for game design…hope they add more interactive elements to the game to differentiate from the other mafia wars, mob wars, etc games out there..
Look forward to seeing whats next…
Hmm.. Facebook is down again.
Spymaster sniped em.
Zuckerberg is going to be killed. Go save him!
iList seems to have a lot of side projects. Are they going to remain in the iList business? I love iList, but no one uses it!
I heard that the FBI uses spymaster to determine who would be good agents…..apparently if you get to x level you get a job interview…
Why? WHY GOD WHY? This shouldn’t be happening! Spymaster doesn’t even deserve to be on Twitter, let alone Facebook? Someone please save us!
I haven’t met anyone who hasn’t been annoyed by spymaster spam
So I just tried Playspymaster with FB Connect, but there are no notifications being sent to my newsfeed & nothing on my wall. Is the FB Connect integration even working guys? Thanks.
Check your notification settings in Spymaster?
Chris: Seems like you may have a bug, my latest actions showed up in the FB feed, but my initial assassinations didn’t, maybe this is because I was logged in using Twitter Oauth not FB Connect the first time, although FB was a Linked network…
iList has been changing the game so much that it probably would have been a better idea to just create a new game based on the same concept and code. At this point, the game has fairly little to offer to those who started playing during the beta. But they could have used the viral aspect of Spymaster to get a lot of people playing a new game, avoiding errors from the past and distancing themselves from the somewhat maligned spymaster brand.
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