Shervin Pishevar is the Co-founder and CEO of the Social Gaming Network (SGN), which builds social games on both Facebook and iPhone. We've asked him to post on the Facebook blog today about the evolution of social gaming and the launch of their new game, iFun.
New technology has the power to inspire our imaginations; all we require is an entrepreneurial vision for progress. As an entrepreneur and researcher, the passion I follow is the palpable joy associated with playing games with your friends. I believe games are inherently social, with... the definition of social changing before our eyes.
Facebook is driving this transformation because, as a social operating system, it enables people to build connections in digital space. Unbounded by physical distance or the increasingly imaginary construct of four walls that isolate us, social games on Facebook are bringing people together in new and fun ways like never before.
Since Facebook Platform was opened to developers and entrepreneurs in May 2007, many interesting game applications have been created, such as Word Challenge and PackRat. Our latest application, iFun, is the first application that connects your friends, the Web, Facebook and the iPhone. Your iPhone serves as a controller for web-based gaming on Facebook, letting you play games like tennis instantly with faraway friends. Simply download the iFun application to your iPhone and navigate to it on the web on SGN.com. We implemented Facebook Connect so you can log in and find friends to play with using your Facebook account. By integrating the mobile operating system of the iPhone with Facebook's social operating system, the possibilities for developers to evolve social gaming are truly limitless.
We have all had an experience where we see a friend after a long period of time but it feels like only a day has passed. That is because bonded human relationships are timeless. Those bonds get tighter and stronger when we tap into the power of shared experiences via Facebook. When I log into Facebook and see News Feed stories about my friends and photos they've uploaded, it displaces time and space and brings us back together again no matter how far or long we have been apart.
I see social games and what we do at SGN as yet another way for people to connect and share, while being entertained too. Combined with the power of Facebook, that makes the world a much more interesting place indeed.
Shervin is passionate about social games and excited to bring iFun to life.
See MoreNew technology has the power to inspire our imaginations; all we require is an entrepreneurial vision for progress. As an entrepreneur and researcher, the passion I follow is the palpable joy associated with playing games with your friends. I believe games are inherently social, with... the definition of social changing before our eyes.
Facebook is driving this transformation because, as a social operating system, it enables people to build connections in digital space. Unbounded by physical distance or the increasingly imaginary construct of four walls that isolate us, social games on Facebook are bringing people together in new and fun ways like never before.
Since Facebook Platform was opened to developers and entrepreneurs in May 2007, many interesting game applications have been created, such as Word Challenge and PackRat. Our latest application, iFun, is the first application that connects your friends, the Web, Facebook and the iPhone. Your iPhone serves as a controller for web-based gaming on Facebook, letting you play games like tennis instantly with faraway friends. Simply download the iFun application to your iPhone and navigate to it on the web on SGN.com. We implemented Facebook Connect so you can log in and find friends to play with using your Facebook account. By integrating the mobile operating system of the iPhone with Facebook's social operating system, the possibilities for developers to evolve social gaming are truly limitless.
We have all had an experience where we see a friend after a long period of time but it feels like only a day has passed. That is because bonded human relationships are timeless. Those bonds get tighter and stronger when we tap into the power of shared experiences via Facebook. When I log into Facebook and see News Feed stories about my friends and photos they've uploaded, it displaces time and space and brings us back together again no matter how far or long we have been apart.
I see social games and what we do at SGN as yet another way for people to connect and share, while being entertained too. Combined with the power of Facebook, that makes the world a much more interesting place indeed.
Shervin is passionate about social games and excited to bring iFun to life.
