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Share Your Favorite Games with Your Friends
October 16th, 2007 by Matt Huggins
I’m a day later than I anticipated, but I completed my first Facebook application: Favorite Games. Perhaps the best way to summarize this application is to include what I wrote in the about page.
Track your favorite video games with Favorite Games! Let your friends know what games you’re playing, want to play, or have already finished. Your games are displayed in a clean, compact box in your profiles for your friends to see.
Check out each game’s page for trailers and gamplay videos, user ratings and reviews, and a link to Amazon in case you decide you want to buy it.
If you’re thinking about buying a new game, just take a look at the “Most Popular Games” page. This page tracks games those that are highest rated, most played, and most favorited.
Getting started is easy! Just add Favorite Games to your profile, then click the “Add Games” button in the application.
In the process of learning to program with the Facebook Platform, I soon learned that there is not much information beyond what’s available within the Facebook Developer’s Wiki. Unfortunately, the amount of information available here is limited, and some of it is outdated or deprecated. As such, I was inspired to create Facebook Developer, a website where I plan on sharing tutorials, code snippets, marketing and monetization strategies, application reviews, and much more.
As part of my efforts in working to make Facebook Developer the best site in its niche, I included a much more in-depth review of Favorite Games that can be read there.
I’m very interested in receiving comments, questions, and criticism on both Favorite Games and Facebook Developer. My goal is to make both of these the best that I can. And, with you being the end user, it’s mutually beneficial for me to provide what you’re looking for. I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
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October 17th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Your application is the only application that can be seen on my profile page… great stuff Matt!
October 17th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
You’re the best, Danielle! I saw that you rated some games in your profile, I appreciate it and hope you like it.
I have a few ideas for improvement already to simplify the amount of effort made by the users in adding games to their lists, so hopefully that’ll be updated soon too.
October 20th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Hey Matt, it`s an awesome app. I`ve just added to my facebook profile and I love it `cause I`m a video game junkie. Congratulations!!!.
October 21st, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Thanks for the feedback, Hernan! I have some improvement ideas I’d like to implement soon, though I need to focus on moving at the moment unfortunately. Hopefully I can get to these changes soon since I think they’ll truly help to improve the application!
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:32 pm
I’m very interested in making a facebook app, so I’ll be sure to bookmark your facebook developer web site.
Congrats on the new facebook app, I’m sure it will take off!
November 1st, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I didn’t know what kind of facebook app you were going to come out with, but whatever I had in my head wasn’t even close to what you came up with! Wowee wow wow! It looks great and I’m going to “do some work” on Facebook tonight and try it out. Congrats with the app and with the new site!
November 9th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Nice application Matt, how long it took you to develop it?
November 11th, 2007 at 4:31 am
Costa — It took about 2 weeks on and off to develop this app. In all, it was probably about 50-60 hours, granted I was learning much about the Facebook Platform at the same time.
November 13th, 2007 at 5:44 am
So many things you can do with FaceBook!
December 16th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Ehm, this app sucks, the add game menu doesnt work. I didnt even find Tekken!
December 16th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Facebookman - The application searches Amazon.com. If Amazon doesn’t have it, the application won’t list it. Sorry!