I think Armor Games 3 (AG3) can be the future of Gaming (or part of it at least). I know a few other sites already have more extensive social capabilities but AG3 will have more social capabilities too (activity stream, statuses, etc.).
Video Games have been in the socially realm for sometime now (with Dreamcast, Playstation 2, Xbox, being the first big name consoles to include online gaming and with World of Warcraft and the increase of Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG)
Think of Facebook. Remember how many people started playing and talking about Farmville? Millions right? People probably enjoyed it because they were playing with their friends. But Facebook is a socializing platform first and a gaming platform second. Now think what Armor Games 3 can be (what it looks like it's headed toward as well). It's a gaming site first and a social site second. It's focus is gaming but it's now incorporating more social elements. That's what gives the gaming experience more depth. It will be like playing games on Facebook only with more depth and focus on and in the games and more gaming elements. It's what people want, and what the gaming industry has been doing. Social gaming. Imagine posting status like "Playing this game come join me", or "Play me in this game." and then your friends join you. You can boast a high score and see what your friends are up to. (Sure you won't be using your real name, but they are your online friends.)
I think that free, online , social, gaming, is the future of gaming and AG3 will deliver!
Enough digging please....and sorry I even got it started >_>
I'm eager to test the activity stream features. I think this is the most code-fu-tastic feature of all that is considered. Maybe I can finally encourage Goumas to beat my Corporation Inc. score. He's been sitting at 24 days.
[quote]Reton8 wrote: Imagine posting status like "Playing this game come join me", or "Play me in this game."
The activity streams that Larry is building will do things like that for us on AG3. For example:
Reton8 just submitted a new high score in Nuclearoids. Think you can beat him? Click here to try!
Or when a user creates some shared game content (like a castle in Crush The Castle), which we call "gameshares", we might post something like:
Reton8 just created a new gameshare for Crush the Castle. Click here to try it, and don't forget to rate it when you're done.
The exact wording/phrases/links etc are all subject to change, but you get the idea.
These 'activities' will appear in the streams for all of Reton8's "followers" and "friends", unless they decided to 'mute' his activities for whatever reason, or if Reton8 himself decides that only friends should see his highscores, etc. or whether to keep all that stuff private.
Any users that can see these activities in their stream will be able to post comments and feedback on them, and then other users will viewing access to the activities can then like/dislike the comments (or flag for abuse) which will affect the commenter's reputation.[/quote]
ARMOR GAMES is the best flash game site i have ever seen ok some body will say kongregate newgrounds or crazy monkey games but in terms of game quality it is impossible to be better then AG the whole page layout even compliments the gaming graphics (HOW? black background vs white background NOT RACISM but the white background makes the games pop) so i think it is the best.
