Yesterday I questioned if Facebook has turned into a site for games and entertainment. This application supports the argument that Facebook is indeed primarily used for entertainment purposes. This application has close to 11,000 active daily users and is growing rapidly with over 30 percent of all installations using the application yesterday alone.

The game objective is relatively simple. All you need to do it build your building as tall as possible. One cool feature of the game is that the height of your friends’ tallest buildings are displayed directly within the game. I was able to build my building up to 52 stories. In comparison to the other players I did pretty well, ranking among the top 5 in the game. My score of 52 though was nowhere near the top three scorers who were able to beat me by an order of magnitude.

If you are looking for yet another time waster, this game can keep you busy for at least 15 minutes if you don’t become addicted to it. Be sure to let me know if you are able to beat my score. A combination of patience and hand-eye coordination should make it relatively easy to rank among the elite in this game. For some reason though I have a feeling that there is an error with the scoring system given the significant fall-off. If you want to have some fun, go grab the Tower Bloxx application.

Based on the classic game of HiLo, Smart Or Not is an extremely simple but highly addictive game. For each card that comes up you bet on whether the next one will be higher, lower or the same. While I don’t think this game is really an accurate test of your intelligence, it is pretty darn fun. Perhaps I don’t think it is an accurate measure of intelligence based on the fact that my score isn’t on the leaderboard!

Smart or not is really well made and really addictive. The only downside to the application is that there seems to be a bug. When a King card shows up and you select “lower” if the next card is a Queen, it says you are wrong. Not really sure what’s up with that but I’m sure it will mess up any professional card counter. Honestly, I’m not sure that card counting is useful for this application given that the game could theoretically be played indefinitely if you have amazing luck.

I’m am proud to say that currently I rank first among all of my friends. While that may be a result of none of my friends adding the application, I prefer to think that the real reason is that I am just highly skilled at cards. Whatever the case may be, if you are into playing cards and want to test your luck, I highly suggest checking out the Smart or Not application.

Browsing through the Facebook directory this morning I found a pretty entertaining game called “Air Hockey.” Air Hockey is a well made duplicate of the classic Air Hockey game. This appears to be the first live application that integrates with the highly publicized Ace Bucks application (which I broke news about earlier this week). I played this application for about 10 minutes. It is a relatively addictive game but extremely challenging.

One of the players who was writing in the game chat room agreed with me that the game was difficult. Aside from being challeing this game has pretty smooth game play and the user interface is intuitive. The only problem with the game was that I had no idea how to figure out what my score was after making it to the third round of the game. There weren’t any other errors besides that. This game embraces the social graph by providing a chat room and a scoreboard that shows your friends’ scores. I think that seeing how your friends rank on these games is the primary reason for playing them on Facebook over another website. If you want to try out another game or have the opportunity to win more Ace Bucks, go check out the Air Hockey application.

This morning while browsing through the Facebook application directory, I stumbled upon a pretty interesting application called “Mars 2025.” The application is a sort of role playing game similar to the immensely popular Warbook application. When you launch the application it provides you with a thorough tutorial about how to play the game. The main purpose of the game is to create your own country on Mars.

Dmitry M. Kentsis and Andrew V. Zakharov who developed the game, focused heavily of building a solid user interface. There is a pretty cool roll-over navigation menu that enables you to browse among the main sections of the game. You can do everything from choosing your country’s government type to managing the bank, military, foreign relations, research and more. It reminds me somewhat of the PC game, Civilization. Additionally, you can form alliances, declare war and try to build your own empire.

The developers put a lot of thought into this application and I think there is a serious chance of them taking a segment of the Warbook’s user base. If you are into role playing games, then go grab the Mars 2025 application.

Yesterday afternoon I had a million things that I needed to get done. One of those things was to write a blog post. As I normally do I proceeded to browse through applications and stumbled upon the Noggin application. For the next hour, rather than calling clients or writing blog posts, I played Noggin. Noggin is a simple word game.

A matrix of letters are displayed and you need to match consecutive letters vertically, horizontally and diagonally. The coolest part is that you can watch other players that are playing at the same time. The only thing missing from the application is a chat room where you can chat in between games. I played enough that I am now one of the top players but I have the feeling that my rank will rapidly drop as more people begin using the application.

Another thing occurred to me while using the application: Facebook is rapidly becoming one of Yahoo’s primary competitors. Not only is Facebook’s page views rapidly rising, but their content is increasing exponentially thanks to the new platform. I remember playing games on Yahoo. Chances are, that won’t happen anymore as all of the same games rapidly show up on Facebook. Thanks to the social aspect of Facebook, they are going to rapidly become the top portal online. The funny thing though is that rather than linking you to outside websites, eventually all of the sites will reside within Facebook. In theory this is a relatively scary proposition.

Rather than expanding on the concept of Facebook owning a large portion of the net, I’ll get back to the topic. Noggin is an extremely addictive game! If you want to test what words you can come up with inside of your noggin, go grab the Noggin application. Below are a few screen shots of the application. You may notice that I’m on top of the daily leader board. Not bad huh?

TravelPod.com has launched a number of Facebook applications but this one seems to top the rest. The Traveler IQ Challenge currently has close to 400,000 users and is growing rapidly. There is a reason for the viral growth. The Traveler IQ Challenge application provides users with an interactive way of testing their geographic knowledge.

Various cities and landmarks are displayed and the goal is to click as close as possible to where the place is on the map. The closer and quicker you are to the location, the higher the points. This game is fun and addictive. The best component is the ability to compare your scores to your friends. I am currently ranked 8th out of my 9 friends that have added the application which is pretty embarrassing.

This application should be used by all those intending to launch a game application. Everything about it is well thought out and executed. If you want to waste some time, go grab the Traveler IQ Challenge application. This is an addictive game though so don’t say I didn’t warn you.

As you may have noticed, I haven’t had many posts today. That’s because I’ve been looking for interesting things to cover and came across the Jetman application. Jetman is a simple game where you press down your mouse button to move up and release to move down. The only thing you need to do is avoid obstacles that come your way. It is as simple as that.

Ted Suzman brought up a good point in the comments of my post from yesterday about how much time people spend on Facebook. He stated that Facebook has replaced AddictingGames.com and I think he is correct. When people are bored, they can simply go to Facebook and play an additicting game, or interact with their friends. While it isn’t revolutionizing society necessarily, it surely is helping us to waste a little more time. If you want to waste a little time, go grab the Jetman application.

A crazy new game has been released on Facebook that allows you pick a pet, put it on your profile and then battle your friend’s pets. While I’ve seen similar applications to this one, Pet Sabotage has pretty cool looking characters and seems to have a few additional features. You can pick from a baby chick, a wild monkey, a lizard/dinosaur look alike, a man-like chicken, a platypus, a fish, and a tiger. I went with the monkey but was not lucky enough to do battle. Apparently none of my friends have added this application to their profile. You can feed your pet for health and build your pet’s tolerance to attacks by winning battles. If you or the pet you are battling is killed, they will be added to the pet cemetary. The attacks done in this game are not your typical attacks. You can give other pets wedgies, judo chop them, feed them worms and a variety of other random attacks. While I don’t consider this a very useful application it may be worth a few minutes of entertainment. If you want to battle against your friends’ pets go grab Pet Sabotage.

Tired of playing games on your XBox 360, Playstation 3, or on your computer? Bring back the 80s with the original Nintendo NES. The Free NES application, created by Lance Strish, provides hundreds of Nintendo games. Some of my favorites are on there such as all the Megaman games, Mario 3, Castlevania, and Zelda. The only issue that I had when running the application was that sound can make game play a little choppy. Aside from that it was pretty decent game play. Instead of the classing “A” and “B” buttons that are on the original Nintendo Game controller, you use the “Z” and “X” buttons. Additionally, the buttons are switched around since the directional keypad is on the right hand side. I’m not sure if a gamepad would work with this, but if it did it would be pretty sweet. I have an original Nintendo sitting in my apartment. Any other NES fans out there? If you want to play Nintendo on Facebook, go grab the Free NES application.

Want your Xbox stats on your profile? Thanks to Nicholas Pike and Jason Laver, now you can! While we already covered the ability to join the Wii community on Facebook, this application extends it to one of the other popular gaming platforms. The only app left is something that integrates into Playstation 3. While I’m not a huge gamer myself, this application is pretty useful for those that want to show off their stats. Back when I used to play Halo, I used to get rocked by top notch gamers that I didn’t stand a chance against. I’m guessing that those are the same people that will enjoy showing off their stats directly from their Facebook profile. If you are one of those gamers that loves playing XBox online, go grab the XBox Live application.

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