Whoops, we’re really not on top of the iPhone gaming industry that well; we just noticed that a whole whack of the cool kids have put together a social networking platform for iPhone gaming called OpenFeint. And it has a bunch of nifty features:
- cross-promotion between participating games
- Facebook & Twitter integration
- cross-game lobbies
- leaderboards
- game chat rooms
- privacy controls
Whew! That’s quite the list. Now, I can see a few issues here, for starters how does their per registered user cost account for the 50% to 90% or so of users that seems to be the general consensus are pirates? — but since they say it’s free to join for free games, well, we’ll certainly look into trying this out with a free game sometime!
h/t: TechCrunch!
UPDATE: So ok, there’s a variety of social platform options! Let’s line them up:
- Cocos Live for simple high scores so far, but it is open source…
- GeoCade is used by a number of popular games
- OpenFeint as discussed above
- Scoreloop , recommended in the comments
- Viximo apparently has something going on as well…
- [EDIT: ngmoco launched Plus+ with the new StarDefense...]
- [EDIT: And see comment below, AGON Online looks quite interesting too!]
- [EDIT: In July Chillingo introduced another one, Crystal SDK...]
- [EDIT: And there's the ByteClub multiplayer gaming platform...]
Anyone have direct experience with any of these? And are we still missing any?
POSTSCRIPT: OTHER ROUNDUPS
09.06.17: scoreloop vs open feint vs plus+
09.07.13: iPhone Social Gaming Service Roundup
09.07.15: iPhone Social Platforms Compared
09.07.17: Social Platforms Revisited
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