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They say imitation is the biggest form of flattery, so Playfish should be pretty flattered by German-based Wooga’s latest game: Brain Buddies. The application takes a similar approach to “Who Has the Biggest Brain?” but provides new forms of brain teasers. There are four alternative challenges, one of which is almost identical to one of the challenges in Playfish’s competing application. Right now the most popular strategy for success in the social gaming arena appears to be copy others and then promote.
The result has been multiple legal battles although none of them have resulted in any game changing decision that would impact the social gaming ecosystem. Regardless of the legal battles and the copycat strategy for many of these companies, the space continues to expand. Zynga, the leading Facebook social gaming company, has grown their user base to around 57 million users and growing daily.
With more monetization platforms coming into the space as well, social gaming appears to be the primary space for growth. As such, it’s not surprising to see new gaming developers take a shot and that’s exactly what Wooga is doing with their Brain Buddies application. So far it appears to be paying off. Just over the past few days, the company has experienced exponential growth (see this chart).
It will be interesting to see how far this application can grow but so far it appears to be in its early growth phase. With a lot of interesting graphics and easy game play, my guess is that this will end up with a few million monthly active users at the least. If you are interested in trying out some new brain teasers, go check out the Brain Buddies application.
the game where you shoot the object that the creature is holding has problems. it needs to be fixed.
Joe, thanks for the feedback.
I am Jens Begemann, founder of wooga. We will look into this and try to find the bug.
You would help us a great deal if you could send me a brief message on Facebook describing the problems you see (my FB username is “jens1″):
http://www.facebook.com/jens1
Thanks a lot in advance!
Jens
I love this game (and it is the first game app I actaully like!)!
i have played who has the biggest brain, mind jolt games, games in lumosity.com creating several accounts just to enjoy all games, etc, and for me this isnt an imitation, but an improving, i will rate the games from 1 to 10
memory squares (7) it’s interesting, one learns to focus and create new patterns to do it faster
memory falling objects (6) the figures fall very slow
logic erasing figures (8) its hard in the first tries, then when mastered it maybe will give thousands of points i guess
logic roulette with spikes (10) i think it will help a lot in a certain capacity of the brain to solve certain problems typical of the iq tests but besides that it will train logic, according to the way its animated
math piled boxes (4) the game starts very easy
math floating circles (10) the most fair math game i have seen ( i score higher hahaha)
planets (9) (improved asteroids of whtbb)
shooting monsters (8) the graphics are funny
ranking of some traits
graphics (9) amazing but it consumes too much memory, but the presenter is tempting at first glance
music (2) they did a bad job
effects (10)
and think they should dare to add 4 more games per category
I can’t seem to get the games to run fast enough to do any good at them. The falling objects I can get 7 or 8 right, no mistakes and then run out of time. How can I speed up the flow of the game?
Eric,
There’s few things you can make the object go faster.
1) click on the puzzle picture after you memorise it, don’t wait for the animation to move by itself especially on both first puzzle.
2) If your computer plays flash animation too slow, i change the whole webpage magnification to less than 80% from your browser and also flash animation runs faster in xp and windows7, not the stupid vista.
3) get the touch screen computer, mouse or touchpad are slow and sometimes you missed.
brain buddys is so cool
owen palmer smells and he is so gay boy
It’s so cool, I love the game.
Why we can only play this game on Facebook? Is there anywhere else that can be played?