Candy Crush Addicts Rewarded with Free Boosters

by Robert Workman, Modojo.com, Posted Dec 3rd 2013 12:45PM

King promised that it would reward its loyal Candy Crush Saga fan base in time for the game's first anniversary on mobile devices, and this week, it's keeping its word!

The company announced that it will introduce a Booster Wheel for the game, which players can spin to add a free booster each day, from now until December 8th.

Many boosters are available as part of the promotion, including +5 Moves, Jelly Fish, the Lollipop Hammer and more. In fact, if a spinner is lucky enough, he or she can nab all the boosters in one shot with the Booster Bonanza Pack.

Players must start their game with the latest Candy Crush Saga update, which is free-of-charge.

"We wanted to say thank you to all of our players and fans of Candy Crush Saga, so we're pleased to be able to offer our players a daily booster at absolutely no cost to them," said Tommy Palm, Games Guru at King. "All people need to do is install the latest update for Candy Crush Saga and get spinning!"

Maybe this'll finally get you past level 65?

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How to Never Run Out of Lives in Candy Crush

by Sylvie Krekow, Posted Dec 4th 2013 4:00PM

Frustrated from running out of lives on Candy Crush? Don't feel like waiting 30 minutes or throwing down actual money to get more of them? Good news! Eye Opener TV has a nifty little segment about how to never run out of lives if you're crushing on an iPad or iPhone. Disclaimer: this won't get you *extra* lives, per se, but it'll save you a bit of time and money. Happy crushing!

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Candy Crush Makers Release New Game: "Papa Pear Saga"

by Steven Strom, Modojo, Posted Dec 2nd 2013 1:45PM

Papa Pear Saga is the latest of King's social-driven Facebook juggernauts to make the lea[p to mobile devices. Fashioned after pachinko, it's also their first game to rely on physics-based gameplay, rather than direct controls as a measure of success. You control the titular Papa Pear - or rather his trajectory - by firing him in an arc from the top of the screen, through various point boosting obstacles, and into one of five scoring buckets. Like any Saga game, you must reach a certain point threshold as well as complete one of various side objectives to proceed.

The Good
Papa Pear Saga is gorgeous to look at. While other games in the Saga franchise often sport a somewhat hacked-together look - as if they were made from various, unrelated parts - Papa Pear knows exactly what look it's going for. That happens to be a bright, clean, and colorful aesthetic with a multicultural feel. Each 15-level world sports a different and instantly recognizable world region as its influence. On high resolution displays such as the iPad Air, it's hard to deny this is King's best-looking game to date.

The Bad
How much you enjoy the way Papa Pear Saga plays will largely depend on how you feel about pachinko games in general. Without direct control over things, the game often feels mindless. Firing off pears in the hopes of accumulating points feels a little like gambling, rather than puzzle solving (not surprising given the genre's origin). The best stages are those that task you with smashing specific obstacles in as few moves as possible. The strategy comes from an economy of movement, rather than just hoping to hit as much as you can on the way down...

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Candy Crush Saga beats out Bubble Safari for fastest-growing Facebook game by DAU

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday.

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Candy Crush Saga continues hot streak among this week’s fastest-growing Facebook games by MAU

King.com’s Candy Crush Saga is once again No. 1 on our list of fastest-growing Facebook games by monthly active users, gaining 2.2 million MAU for a 110 percent increase this week.

Rovio’s Angry Birds added 1 million MAU for a 4 percent gain, securing the No. 2 spot. At No. 3 is King.com’s Bubble Witch Saga with 1 million MAU for a five percent gain.

Disney Playdom had two titles place in the top five spots of this week’s list. Marvel: Avengers Alliance snagged the No. 4 spot with an 18 percent gain of 900,000 MAU, and Disney Animal Kingdom Explorers was up by 145 percent with 710,000 MAU. The developer’s newer title, Armies of Magic, also made a strong showing with 610,000 MAU for a 555 percent increase. The only other game with a greater-than-100 percent increase is Cookapps’ bubble shooter Buggle, which picked up 590,000 MAU for 328 percent growth.

The Hunger Games Adventures appears on our list this week for the first time, taking the No. 20 spot with its gain 290,000 MAU gain for a 43 percent increase. The Hunger Games Adventures steady growth since its March launch is undoubtedly helped by the phenomenal success of the movie; currently the game has 960,000 MAU and 150,000 daily active users. The movie’s box office power is (finally) beginning to wane, though, so it won’t be long before the game has to survive solely on its own merits.

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the fastest-growing games by daily active users on Wednesday and top emerging apps on Friday.

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Why King.com's Candy Crush is crushing it on Facebook

The big dogs have a new challenger nipping at their heels, namely in the form of King.com, which recently passed Electronic Arts as the third most popular game maker on Facebook. The company's match-3 game Candy Crush Saga, tops the AppData charts as the fastest growing game on the social network in April.

We decided to get in touch with King.com to find out why so many folks seem to be sweet on this game. And instead of getting a response along the lines of, 'Duh, it's a game with delicious candy," King.com Chief Marketing Officer Alex Dale breaks it down in more, er, simplistic terms.

1. The balance between the "puzzle" elements and the "fun" elements of switching.
2. It has very high production values, strong story line and great sound effects.

To translate this into something that sounds a little less business-guy like: 1. Candy Crush Saga is a match-3 game and everyone loves match-3 games. 2. It's a match-3 game featuring shiny pieces of candy 3. The game does a good job at changing up the levels to keep them from getting boring 4. The background music is charming, and the repeated vocalizations of the word 'Sweet' bolster your ego (and maybe make you want to eat real candy while playing).

One of the missing elements from Candy Crush Saga right now is a robust social component. Dale didn't give up any specifics on if that will be part of the game's new additions going forward but did say that they plan to roll out many updates in the future.

"Bubble Witch started with 70 levels and now has over 170 with levels and new components added on an ongoing basis," he says. "We expect the same to happen with Candy Crush Saga."

So there you have it -- the magic formula to creating a killer Facebook game in 2012. It's unlikely that King.com will be able to topple Zynga as the number one Facebook game maker, but they'll at least keep the House that Built FarmVille on its toes.

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Socialcam, Viddy, Instagram, Metacafe, Candy Crush Saga, more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook pages by MAU

Social video apps were very popular on our list of growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. Mobile video apps Socialcam and Viddy topped our list, with web integrations from Metacafe, Siz.net and Dailymotion also making appearances.

Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 700,000 and 13.5 million MAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook.

Top Gainers This Week

Socialcam grew by 13.5 million MAU and Viddy by 12.8 million MAU. These apps allows users to create and watch videos, sharing activity to Facebook each time. The mobile photo sharing app Instagram continue to grow significantly, as did the document sharing integration, Scribd. Two music applications, Pandora and Spotify, made our list, as well as a pair of quiz applications that publish feed stories with each answer.

Metacafe’s Timeline app led a list of website integrations that made our list, including Yahoo! Social Bar, Flixster and Dailymotion. These apps tend to institute automatic sharing for users who visit the sites. Finally, games on the list were led by King.com’s Candy Crush Saga.

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top weekly gainers by daily active users on Wednesday, and the top emerging apps on Friday.

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King.com goes for social gamers' sweet tooth with Candy Crush Saga

Is there an award for the most adorable match-three game? Well, we're making one right now, because King.com's newest social game, Candy Crush Saga on Facebook, is a downright saccharine marriage of match-three and Candy Land. The sixth "Saga" Facebook game to come from London-based casual games portal is available now for all to play.

Candy Crush Saga is actually a social version of a game that already exists on King.com proper, but with a new lot of social features that demand it be on Facebook. For instance, as players match identical pieces of candy in each of the game's 65 levels at launch, they'll progress along a game board much like they would in Bubble Witch Saga. As they press on, players will be able to compare how far along they are with their friends' positions on the same game board.

Of course, players can unlock more levels by inviting their friends and purchase in-game boosts with Facebook Credits. But what seems to set Candy Crush Saga apart from the established match-three games on Facebook--namely Diamond Dash and Bejeweled Blitz--is the levels themselves. The two latter games present the same level every time with a constant stream of gems and new power-ups, while Candy Crush Saga's 65 levels are predetermined with a limited number of moves.

This game also provides players with a number of play modes, like timed sessions, limited moves, a collecting objects mode and more are promised to come as King.com updates Candy Crush Saga with more levels. King.com CMO Alex Dale also took the chance to announce yet another milestone for the developer when speaking with us: King.com has outpaced EA as the third most popular Facebook game maker in terms of daily players. But how did the company do it in such a short amount of time?

"What happened with Bubble Saga was a number of years of trying out different approaches to Facebook, and it was the Saga formula that we had success with," Dale tells us. "This was marrying the basic game mechanic from successful games on King.com with the social layer, but also focusing on a more relaxed gameplay experience ... which works well for the Facebook audience. There's a secular trend, as the Facebook games audience has broadened, toward casual social games. We've kind of ridden that wave, if you like."

Dale goes on to say that the popularity of the simulator-style Facebook game (i.e. your 'Villes) has dwindled and that casual social games are on the up and up. King.com is laser-focused on this trend, so expect plenty more puzzle-style Facebook games where Candy Crush Saga came from.

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King.com breaking into match-3 genre with Candy Crush Saga on Facebook

King.com brings its popular “Saga” series to the match-3 genre today on Facebook with Candy Crush Saga.

The game is based on Candy Crush, available on King.com’s web portal. Players are tasked with helping Mr. Toffee and his daughter, Tiffi, travel through 65 levels in a Candyland-like world, solving candy-themed match-3 puzzles and acquiring items for candy recipes. The game monetizes similar to the other Saga games, with extra lives and gameplay-boosting charms and powerups available for Facebook Credits.

Candy Crush Saga will eventually be playable via open web, Facebook, and mobile devices;  somewhat like King.com did with the match-3 game Miner Speed. Unlike Miner Speed, Candy Crush Saga won’t offer crossover experiences: CMO Alex Dale tells us the Facebook and open web versions play significantly different from each other. Dale also tells us the various Saga games will be launching for mobile devices in the near future, coming to as many platforms as possible. The titles are expected to launch for iOS and Android devices, but King.com CEO Riccardo Zacconi recently showed us Bubble Witch Saga on the Kindle Fire, too.

Clarification: Bubble Witch Saga on the Kindle was a prototype version and is not currently available.

“On our King.com portal, you’ll typically have a couple of levels of gameplay where you play head-to-head in a match or a tournament. The excitement is very much driven by the direct competitive challenge,” Dale says. “On Facebook, it’s a much more a relaxing experience about progressing through the game with your friends, and the mobile version will be ‘snackable’ so it can be played whenever someone has a free moment.”

Candy Crush Saga marks the sixth Saga game for King.com,  after Hoop De Loop Saga, Bubble Witch Saga, Mahjong Saga, Bubble Saga and Puzzle Saga. Bubble Witch Saga is currently the most popular of these titles on Facebook, holding the No. 6 spot for daily active users. Between the launch of Puzzle Saga in October 2010 and Bubble Witch Saga a year later, King.com’s Facebook traffic has rocketed the company to the No. 3 games developer in terms of DAU. Both Bubble Witch Saga and Bubble Saga maintain positions on our Top 25 Facebook Games list for the month. The latest game in the series, Hoop De Loop Saga, is also rapidly acquiring DAU, so it may show up on next month’s rankings.

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