If you hadn’t guessed it, casual gaming is so hot that even normally lumbering Electronics Arts has jumped on the bandwagon. Nevermind them, for casual gaming is still the playground of start-ups. We have written about Boonty’s Cafe.com and Kongregate in the past. And now three-year-old casual gaming company, King.com is getting its game on with MyGame.com, a new service that lets you create, play and also share games (via widgets of course.)
The service which is going to be widely available tomorrow allows anyone to create games in 2-minutes, London-based King.com claims. You can pick a game template, personalize it with text, sounds, and a photo, and start playing. Since the company is going for big impact, some of the games are downright hokey, and simple.
You can share the games on social networks, embed them in your MySpace profile, or even post them to your blog. If your game gets really popular, then King.com plans to share advertising money with the game creators. (I have labeled this share-the-profit concept, iCompany, and have written about it in the past.)
8 comments so far
7:15 PM PT
I like the idea, though it needs a much more powerful gui - in the like of Klik & Play and its game successors.
9:20 PM PT
They lost me with PC only support. Too bad.
9:26 PM PT
(link) lets you create Action/RPG style games, and you can draw and map out your games all in the browser…
7:30 AM PT
I would not recommend signing up on this site. I am from MN, a legal gambling state (according to the site), and signed up for an account. I even put $$ into an account to play cash games. I was able to play them for about 1-2 weeks. Then, my account said that I couldn’t login because my “Login not allowed from this region/state.” I then contacted the company & they said that I have an invisible IP address or was in a state that didn’t allow gambling. I have now been fighting them for over a week trying to get my money back. I hadn’t (& still haven’t) changed a thing on my computer. After they told me about my IP address, I went on their site & signed up for another account WITH NO PROBLEMS!! You tell me what’s going on with their site. I THINK THEY ARE CROOKS!
DON’T USE THIS WEBSITE OR ANY AFFILIATED WITH THEM!!!
7:33 AM PT
@ Vicky…my account said that I couldn’t login because my “Login not allowed from this region/state.”
The same thing is happening to me right now. After talking to my provider it seems that they (provider) have purchased a new pool of IP numbers which King.com’s IP log is not yet recognising. I will not give up this fight!
4:07 AM PT
Any updates about king.com??? Have the same issue
Thanks
12:31 AM PT
I have been having the exact same problem with king, only it started happening when I started winning which was weird.
But ridiculous we can’t have access to our money no matter the problem. They should ahve come up with a solution.
8:16 PM PT
Same my problem!!! Just started today. It was not problem when I was playing with little wining and more lost cash. The problem started happening when I started winning $200 more, this wining game closed today! I was keeping 1st and price over $200 more when checked my account(last vist @ 24 hour ago)
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