Chris and Jay [Dubbin, Dahlen and Katsir, the game's writers] all did a fantastic job. We had many, many thousands of text bytes that had to be written for the game."At the same time, having developed Zoo Kingdom on Facebook as a follow-up to NBA Live Coins its Zoo Tycoon brand, Blue Fang was already familiar with its options on the platform. Social features can be much more than just posting to each other's walls, Kazemi notes: In Carmen Sandiego, friends who are also playing the game can be revealed as criminals,
The world map shows small notes of the Cheap NFL 18 Coins cities that friends are currently visiting on their crime-solving quests."If anything, we erred on the side of caution in using the Facebook platform," Kazemi says. "There's a lot of stuff you can do, and we try to use the stuff people are used to seeing in games. You don't want to risk creeping people out by bringing in information that they maybe didn't know you had access to. We don't incorporate users' personal data unless it's very explicit or
commonly-understood that your friends are playing the game and that certain things are going to appear." Part of the reason that the Carmen Sandiego games were so widely popular in their heyday was because they were actually educational. Many of today's adult gamers will tell you they learned geography from the game's objectives, and learned research skills from scanning the Fodor's Guides that often came with games.
Whither Carmen in the Google era, then, when a clue at MMOGO about the world is just one browser tab away? "We definitely designed with Google in mind," Kazemi asserts. "That was absolutely part of the design from day one; it would be futile to fight against that."So the team focused on upping the challenge ante with the harder cases as players progress, phrasing clues in such a way that they're still tough to Google; that players may still need to read and learn a bit, or employ deductive reasoning.
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