CrowdStar Launches Fourth Game On Facebook: Happy Pets

-Happy Pets Logo-After trying to stay under the radar for the past few months, CrowdStar, the company behind the fourth largest game on the Facebook platform, Happy Aquarium, is launching their fourth game: Happy Pets. The application first debuted last Thursday and already has over one million monthly active users, approximately the size of the company’s other two games: Know-It-All Trivia and Restaurant Life. The company has great ambitions, with a goal of taking on Zynga.

While you would expect Happy Pets to be similar to Playfish’s largest game, Pet Society, it’s not. Instead, the goal is to adopt as many cats and dogs as you can and to take care of them. While you can purchase furniture for your house, just as you can in Pet Society, there are no activities to participate in outside of your house. The game is well developed though and has grown quickly in the past week. While none of the company’s new games have grown to be as large as Happy Aquarium, CrowdStar is investing significant development resources.

According to the company’s Executive Chairman, Peter Relan, the CrowdStar believes they have a unique business model. Relan says that CrowdStar recognizes “that the entire value chain, including the way you actually build, deliver and manage games has also changed, and traditional development models aren’t optimal for this new market. We believe we are building the most efficient, agile and profitable business model in the industry.”

While the company isn’t saying how much money they’re making, with one of the top games on Facebook based on both monthly and daily active users, it’s in the millions. We’ll definitely be keeping our eyes on the CrowdStar team over the coming months as they establish themselves as a leading social gaming company.

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  1. They have no toys except a laser for cats and I see no point for cats for you play with laser, maybe feather, I don't believe cats would actually sleep on ground. I seen cats sleep on rugs or something that get their fancy. But they have no scratching posts or something that makes the kitties naughty. Like destroyed furniture? Or pee on the floor? I seen cats do that? Why add dogs why not goats?

    Comment by Caroline Balkon — November 20, 2009 @ 1:03 pm

  2. I would like to see more animals like birds or hamsters, Even though CATS ARE AWESOME!!! Just like in "Happy Aquaruim", we need cheaper food prices and the animals should get sick every once in a while or bring them to play in other's houses in a cage. More furniture like cat beds and upgradable food bowls and litter boxes would be nice. Once again, like "happy aquarium" we should be able to use any of the floors with a certain amount of levels up or friends and not pay for them.

    Comment by Kristi — November 21, 2009 @ 8:12 am

  3. I like Happy pets too! I think that there should be more toys and I also think that you should be able to breed. Can you breed? Anyway, Happy aquarium is good I like it!

    Comment by Leah — November 21, 2009 @ 2:32 pm

  4. what level do u get a dog

    Comment by kayla Kreissig — November 21, 2009 @ 7:32 pm

  5. yea, agree. would like to see more animals (cant wait for the dogs), hopefully can let the animals breed with friends pets, then can get rare species then good(:

    Comment by ker — November 21, 2009 @ 9:45 pm

  6. YOU CANT EVEN BREED OR AT LEAST I CAN NOT FIGURE IT OUT

    Comment by alex — November 22, 2009 @ 6:42 am

  7. i would love to see hampsters or guinea pigs or ferrets. that would be really awesome. cant wait for the dogs to come out. The adult cat's tails bother me tho because they are scrunchy and i would love to see cute accessories like collars we could put on the animals. id buy them. Love the game and im always on it just as Happy Aquarium. Only cute facebook games out there. Keep up the good work boys!

    Comment by sarah — November 27, 2009 @ 10:22 am

  8. Need to be able to breed animals. Would make game much more fun. Dogs, hamsters, fish, ferrets, birds, rabbits, and more house pets would be fun too. Thank you(:

    Comment by mollie — December 1, 2009 @ 5:09 pm

  9. I agree.It needs more house pets,they need to breed,and one more thing.Animals get fleas!!!!They need a brush and Happy Pets should be more fun. :(

    Comment by Darren — December 5, 2009 @ 10:50 am

  10. I like that you can get chance animals like in "Happy Aquarium".You can get Blue Leopards and (new) orange tiger cats! I just got one, and gave two to my brother, (and a blue leopard too) Dane (who's actually me, but I didn't want anyone else to have them).

    Comment by Grace Ray — December 5, 2009 @ 5:02 pm

  11. i dont even like admitting how much i like this game. i just found the kittens cute…

    biggest complaint–why can you only have 5 kittens at once!? we should at least be able to expand the room or something like you can in happy aquarium so we can buy more without having to sell the others. :(

    Comment by saifai — December 7, 2009 @ 12:52 pm

  12. can they mate?

    i realy hope so!!

    Comment by Rebecca — December 8, 2009 @ 6:45 am

  13. Happy pets is good but i would like the cats to be able to breed.

    Comment by Taylamae — December 8, 2009 @ 7:31 am

  14. bring on the dogs they are taking 4 ages iam tired of cats hurry up its getting boring

    Comment by jim — December 9, 2009 @ 6:45 pm

  15. hey how do you get the hamsters i saw one of my friends have one. i know how to get the parrot but not the hamsters. i can wait for the dogs to come out.

    Comment by alison — December 10, 2009 @ 4:35 pm

  16. um ya… there definitely needs to be dogs and soon because the cats are getting really boring although its still a fun game… and you need to be able to get money other ways than just cleaning and playing with your pets and other… you should be able to play games like in happy aquarium…. or you should be able to train them i guess…

    Comment by ali — December 13, 2009 @ 12:55 pm

  17. Love the game, cant wait until the toys ar available

    Comment by Irene — December 14, 2009 @ 3:43 am

  18. Happy pets

    Comment by Riky — December 16, 2009 @ 1:28 am

  19. The dogs have actually come out! I've already bought four. You can breed cats, and I'm sure they will make it available on dogs too. Better buy them now before they start making them pricy and locked until a certain level. Dog food bowls are a dollar. They are so cute!

    Comment by Alice — December 18, 2009 @ 7:54 pm

  20. yay you can breed now! you click a male, click the breed button then select an adult female, but i think it only works with cats of the same colour :( but i have 2 rare animals! blue leopard and hamster! cant wait for rare tiger stripe cat, my cousin has one that i found :(

    Comment by Facebook User — December 19, 2009 @ 1:17 am

  21. Dogs are out!

    Comment by McKenna Still — December 19, 2009 @ 10:50 am

  22. you should be able to buy the hamster no one is able to find it , or at least they should be easier to find…no one is able to publish it >.<'

    Comment by Sara — December 20, 2009 @ 11:55 am

  23. Haha I cant wait to see the baby! :) )

    Comment by Calm — December 21, 2009 @ 8:03 pm

  24. Sometimes games cannot be saved…Especially in Happy Pets and Happy Aquarium :C

    Comment by Jonel — December 22, 2009 @ 6:35 am

  25. Hope that there will be a Save Button like in Pet Society, Country Story etc…

    Comment by Jonel — December 22, 2009 @ 6:44 am

  26. They can mate now!!!! I still want to be able to expand the room, though!!!

    Comment by Caitlin — December 22, 2009 @ 2:41 pm

  27. yeah i breed my dog and the puppies are cuto tommotre ill get some screenshots :)

    Comment by Kisapedra Ryzhova — December 24, 2009 @ 6:19 am

  28. you can breed buti cant figer out how and you can get a hamster and a bird just cant figer it out i have seen it at my friends house

    Comment by ashley — December 28, 2009 @ 4:33 pm

  29. i have two dogs two cats but no hamster want a hamster so bad look me up i send you stuff maby my dod

    Comment by ashley — December 28, 2009 @ 4:36 pm

  30. Yea you can breed,and dogs came to happy pets too ! you can breed dogs and cat's.There are new kitty's too.there are many kitty's whit spot's,stripes waiting to be adopted by you :) )

    Comment by Petra — December 29, 2009 @ 2:54 am

  31. I am glad you bring dogs in the picture.I have a hamster,a dog and three cats in this game!You should bring some animals that like to live outdoors but live indoors like raccoons!

    Comment by C.j. Wall — January 1, 2010 @ 2:32 pm

  32. I love Happy Pets so much! But I would really like it if people could go and play with other peoples cats. Also when are the Blue Leopard Cats gonna come back on for chance? I meen, I like them but 82 dollars? I'm willing to buy credit stuff for them but 82 dollars for a cat just isn't gonna be possible for a while.

    Comment by Dane — January 8, 2010 @ 1:11 pm

  33. how to play

    Comment by alvin — January 10, 2010 @ 1:51 am

  34. Dude I like love Happy Pets. It's totally like the funnest game on facebook.But there should be like furniture sets. like a spernatural chair,plant, and couch. also there should be totally cute outfits!(__/)

    (0''0)

    (")(")

    ( )

    Comment by Macenna — January 10, 2010 @ 11:18 am

  35. IN what age can we breed dogs

    Comment by Nick — January 12, 2010 @ 7:11 pm

  36. What happened to Happy pets. Did you discontinue it?

    Comment by sally horner — January 21, 2010 @ 12:04 pm

  37. hahahahhah chillz out everyone soon alotttt of things will come out new things if you wait………..

    Comment by sam — January 21, 2010 @ 4:21 pm

  38. Happy pets isnt working right now. =(

    Comment by SaM — January 21, 2010 @ 4:22 pm

  39. MY CATS R DYING BECAUSE YOUR WEBSITE HAS A REALLY BIG PROBLEM I KEEP GETTING ANOTHER WEB GAME I DON'T WANT YOU ASK ME TO LEAVE A 5 STAR REVIEW??? WHY?? I CAN'T EVEN GET ON THE SITE !!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO HAPPY AQUARIUM ALSO??? MY FISH ARE PROBABLY DEAD TOO!! IT IS NOT MY COMP. I HAVEN'T HAD ANY TROUBLE W/ ANY OTHER WEBSITE.

    Comment by leslie crews — January 21, 2010 @ 5:45 pm

  40. What is going on with "Third Party Issue"? That doesn't sound good. It doesn't sound like a technical problem and that troubles me. Do not close Happy Pets down! I hope you can expedite resolvinge this issue. I have 2 "expecting" pets and miss this website very much!

    Comment by Barbara Magowan — January 21, 2010 @ 8:06 pm

  41. why is the site shut down because of some third party interference? I just had babies coming out of baskets. I love this game please get it up and running again, its just my chance to stop for the day and chill out love the game good job

    Comment by Nancy Kohn — January 21, 2010 @ 11:21 pm

  42. dieses scheiß spiel geht nicht boah wie ich das hasse

    Comment by bella luna — January 22, 2010 @ 1:48 am

  43. is there any official word about happy pets from the developer? if so can someone link pls?

    Comment by sami — January 22, 2010 @ 2:35 am

  44. Whats has happened to Happy Pets has it been taken off???

    Comment by Facebook User — January 22, 2010 @ 5:02 am

  45. I want my Happy Pets back Please bring it back!!!!!

    Comment by Debbie — January 22, 2010 @ 7:07 am

  46. I love this game! I seen were someone is having trouble breeding i did at first.The trick is make sure they not hungry,you have to select a male first and then select breed then pick female and hit breed button it will work 9 out of 10 times! I have breed my pets several times with great success. Thank you!

    Comment by paula rockenhauser — January 22, 2010 @ 7:29 am

  47. Happy Aquarium works, Happy Island works, why no Happy Pets?!!

    Have babies about to be born… pets are starving!! At least send 'Fan's' a message.. oh, wait.. we cant go to the fan page either!!

    Please resolve this issue, or at LEAST let us know our pets are safe!

    PS: I can not play Happy Aquarium with FireFox, so when I try to use the in room link (clicking the aquarium), the page never loads. I have to get on IE to feed fish. Makes no sence. I can't play most of your games with IE I have to use FireFox.

    Comment by Facebook User — January 22, 2010 @ 8:30 am

  48. You can read here about Happy Pets being down:
    http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/01/happy-pets-dow...

    It should be back up this evening.

    Aria

    Comment by Facebook User — January 22, 2010 @ 8:39 am

  49. Phew! Mys cats,bird,hamster,dog,fish,and(after thit came back online,since evryone got a free one!:))rabbit!. ey,and thaks so much for the 1000 free coins, oh and the free rabit, oh and that rabbits are now also on chance. I can't wait to breed my first rabbit! (baby) so…thanks again!, and well i guess ye! (time to go and take care of my h(H)appy p(P)ets!(!):):/:(>:(

    Comment by Joana — January 23, 2010 @ 1:50 pm

  50. Happy pets are the cools pets ever.

    Comment by chantelle — January 24, 2010 @ 11:30 am

  51. They have rabbits now but I don't know how to feed them!!!! Will someone PLEASE tell me !!!!!!!!!!???????????!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

    Comment by Beverly — January 31, 2010 @ 11:18 am

  52. I KNOW I CANT FIGURE OUT HOW IM SUPPOSED TO FEED THE RABBIT LOL

    Comment by cassie — February 1, 2010 @ 11:12 am

  53. like the babys u just click the food button then the rabbit you are wishing 2 feed i have 8 hahaha xP and 5 turtles

    Comment by Kai — February 1, 2010 @ 12:30 pm

  54. why is the game so slow?? There's a 15 second delay between each action. It takes about half hour to clean, feed and pet a room of 4 animals. It's annoying as heck. I love my pets, but the delay drives me nuts…..

    Comment by Heidi Mathis — February 6, 2010 @ 10:39 pm

  55. i want to log in to this game now now in tell you people free thro ok you bom asses

    Comment by lexus — February 8, 2010 @ 6:59 pm

  56. The're very cute

    Comment by Rosy — February 11, 2010 @ 2:15 am

  57. there all so cute

    Comment by syazwani — February 19, 2010 @ 5:35 pm

  58. How do I kep my fish from dying in Happy Aqaurium while I am on vacation and do not have access to the internet to feed them?

    Comment by Gunny — February 20, 2010 @ 6:45 pm

  59. how do you breed?!?

    Comment by lulu — February 21, 2010 @ 9:48 am

  60. I accidently clicked something that made me block Happ pets, its the appilcation itself, so I can not get into it at all, please help me remove this block thank ou

    Comment by Fay — February 27, 2010 @ 2:41 pm

  61. I also have the same problem, I CAN'T FEED MY RABBIT…. Please someone tell me how to feed it, i'm afraid he is dying.

    Comment by natalia — March 7, 2010 @ 6:04 pm

  62. How do you feed the bunnies on Happy Pets?

    Comment by Betsy Lizz Elikk — March 12, 2010 @ 11:33 am

  63. How do you feed the bunnies?

    Comment by Betty Elikk — March 12, 2010 @ 3:30 pm

  64. I really like how you can breed them and all don't get me wrong I love the game but I just wish that we could buy things where we wouldn't have to give them our credit card number i just wish everything were game coins and I also would like to be able to take at least like one of our pets over to a neighbors and play and let our pet breed with there pet, But thats all I ask for but other than that I love the game :D

    Comment by layla — March 22, 2010 @ 11:05 am

  65. fed the by clicking the food then there will be a sign on top of it and it says something like feed animal or something then click on it with the food in your hand

    Comment by layla — March 22, 2010 @ 11:07 am

  66. You all are very dumm this game is a scam, yea money scam my account is -$1,890— to stop them from charging me I had to shut down my card, and now I can't get a phone number to call anyone nor a e-mail account BECAREFULL got my grand son a $5.00 credit to buy a pig, and they never stop charging me every day 5 to 6 times! check you bank accounts please they are ripping you off!!!!!!

    Comment by ginnie nunes — March 23, 2010 @ 2:09 pm

  67. why does my happy pets cannot be open
    is it bug?
    plzzz help me fix it..
    happy pets is my favorite game plzz bring it back to me thank you :(

    Comment by Neljun Magtibay — March 24, 2010 @ 12:48 am

  68. I don't like Happy Pets too much. Turtles, rabbit, duck, and hamster just available with Facebook credit. They don't even have a rug or carpet to make the room looks better. The goods price are too expensive if remember every piggy bank just worth 15 coins. I play it because I don't know why, my computer only load this game. It can't load the other :(

    by the way, how to get more rabbit? I got one (email only rabbit)

    Comment by shinta — March 27, 2010 @ 7:07 am

  69. this is the coolest and funest game ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by dina — April 3, 2010 @ 10:49 am

  70. I wish the people who created Happy Pets, which is a very cute and fun game, could see the wisdom of offering better gifts to

    give to friends! There is almost nothing that is practical. Think more about the pets than the people. 99% of the time

    instead of sending a gift I just send food. At least the animals can eat that. Why don't you offer some toys to give as gifts?? Please, spend a little time thinking about this and you will realize this is a good idea that would make the game so much better. And obviously I'm not the only one who thinks this.

    Thank You

    Comment by Shelley — April 11, 2010 @ 3:31 am

  71. i think that you should have pet gerbils, mice, or horses to adopt or jungle animals to adopt.

    Comment by Bryan Frazee — April 16, 2010 @ 6:40 am

  72. how do you start from the beginning

    Comment by Alyssa Vogt — April 27, 2010 @ 6:02 pm

  73. I don't get why the other animals besides the cats and dogs have to be for facebook credits, I see the thing saying that the adults sell for some thousands of money, but it won't sell. I don't even know why, but I would like to know.

    Comment by Abigail — May 8, 2010 @ 4:18 pm

  74. I think yall should do horses it would be so awesome and I also think yall should make it easier to earn money it would be so much more fun and exciting! More different kinds of animals would be cool 2!!! Thanks

    Comment by Mika — May 13, 2010 @ 1:03 pm

  75. thanks

    Comment by Ebtesam S. Qomoq — May 22, 2010 @ 5:36 am

  76. no matter what i do,i can't down load the gamebar crowdstar. help

    Comment by bishop/chief apostle — May 25, 2010 @ 10:05 am

  77. I am ticked off. I have purchased items from the store using facebook credits, so why can’t i get any of the alice in wonderland themes. It seems only some countries can get it. They are not being very fair to everyone, are they?

    Comment by amanda jenkins — June 15, 2010 @ 9:42 pm

  78. I really hope you guys fix this problem because i was just about to see my baby come out the basket today and now the site is gone whats up with that i would really like to know what is going on i want my pets back!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by erica — June 29, 2010 @ 9:14 am

  79. I play Happy Pets and all your other games for that matter. When Happy pets came out with their new idols I bought a 3 day XP and a 7 day XP idol and my daughter a 3 day idol. None of them worked I have written the support & support FB credits for about 6 weeks. They sent us idols in our gift boxes. I pulled out my 3 day and it said 0 on it and disappeared,then my 7 day had a 2 and it worked for 2 days. My daughtewr also did the same thing. I have begged them to help us for 7 weeks to NO avail. I have tried everything!!! I just want my FB credits back at this time but still no response!! Can you help I am owed 8 double experience point days or 59 FB credits for me and a 3 day for my daughter or 24FB credits. Can you please respond and tell me where I can go to get back what is owed to me? Thank You, Kathleen Engel

    Comment by Kathleen KEngel — July 16, 2010 @ 5:01 am

  80. in 3 of my rooms the paw fills almost all the way up then it stops and ive went off of the game and when i come back it still is uck on the same paw. and wont move so i can do things in the rooms.how can i fix this problem?please help.

    Comment by ann veina — July 17, 2010 @ 4:56 am

  81. How Do You Free Trapped Pets?

    Comment by Gemma Gibson — July 20, 2010 @ 7:38 am

  82. Honestly it's be a lot better if they made it so there wasn't a lot of things you had to use credits on, or atleast make it easier to get credits rather than paying actual money. /:

    Comment by Sarah — August 3, 2010 @ 6:17 pm

  83. I think Happy Pets is the best internet game ive ever played but the good things cost credits and i dont like how you have to pay for credits i like the turtles but all of them have credits on them i was lucky as i got a male brown turtle from a lucky box and a female turtle for free (samarai turtle) so i started breeding them. I do like the jackalopes but 62 credits ripp off for a vurtual pet

    Comment by Max Dooley — August 6, 2010 @ 10:58 pm

  84. I love happy pets, but I agree, all the good things cost credits and I hate paying for credits.

    Comment by Andromeda — August 10, 2010 @ 9:46 am

  85. I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A WAY TO FEED ALL OF YOUR PETS AT ONCE. THEY SHOULD EAT QUICKLY INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR THEM TO WANDER OVER AND SIT THERE AND THEN EAT. THAT REALLY MAKES ME WANT TO STOP PLAYING THE GAME WHEN YOU HAVE TO WAIT TOO LONG FOR THEM TO EAT!!! ALSO, THERE SHOULD BE GAMES TO EARN CREDITS. I DONOT TRUST ANYONE TO GIVE OUT ANY CREDIT CARD OR PAYPAL ACCTS. I GOT RIPPED OFF ON PAYPAL FROM FACEBOOK AND I BOUGHT THINGS AND THEY WERE TAKEN AWAY FROM ME AND I NEVER GOT THEM BACK. I PAID WITH CREDITS FOR HAPPY AQUARIUM NEW BIRDS AND 2 OF THEM I NEVER RECEIVED. IN THE NEW BAR HOPING GAME I BOUGHT 2 NICE TABLES WITH MY CREDITS AND NEVER GOT THEM. THEY WERE THERE FOR 2 SECONDS AND THEN GONE!!!! I KNOW YOU HAVE TO MAKE MONEY IN DIFFERENT WAYS, BUT ATLEAST GIVE US A CHANCE TO WIN THE CREDITS!!!!!

    Comment by GAIL RAGUCKY LEEDS — August 29, 2010 @ 10:33 am

  86. i think instead of that fat basket the cat should be pregnant cuz i breed alot nd i like to keep track of whose who nd who belongs to nd is related to who, i agree with winning credits nd also i think that instaed of som things being credits nd some money u shud still at loeat be able 2 pay money for everything my freind has a whole lot of money nd also agrees!

    Comment by meihe0 — December 4, 2010 @ 5:44 am

  87. If anyone can please tell me. Can you breed with friends?` if you can, can someone tell me HOW!!!!????

    Comment by Karah — May 28, 2011 @ 10:42 am

  88. just press the heart beside laser and gifft see pay $50.00 dollarz too!

    Comment by Kathryn barron — December 15, 2011 @ 8:32 pm

  89. They do have it know yo know

    Comment by Kathryn barron — December 15, 2011 @ 8:34 pm

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