The Heyzap Team has been working hard on developing products that innovate the ways users are engaged in social/ casual/ MMO games.
With the release of the Heyzap Social Bar, users can now:
Retain their login information across all of Heyzap Social Bar integrated games
Quickly share the game with their Facebook and Twitter friends
Have a quick [...]
Heyzap has released a new feature that allows game developers to integrate a leaderboard into their games, making them more addictive, as users can now see how they fare amongst their friends and challenge their friends to beat their scores.
Want to dramatically increase gameplays overnight? Check out our API here to see how easy it is make [...]
Heyzap has expanded our accepted payments offerings through PayByCash and the Ultimate Game Card, which will increase your eCPM and allow teenagers to play your games.
Users can buy the Ultimate Game Card at the following retailers:
Users will now be able to purchase in-game virtual goods using:
Cash (through the mail)
eCheck/ Check by Fax/ Check by mail
JCB
Money Order/ [...]
* New API call for developers to arbitrarily give users points in-game, without having to go through achievements. Ex: experience, or small amounts of points. (We also limit this every day so a player can’t abuse it.)
* Developers can set goods to be buyable with just coins, just points, or both coins and points. Previously [...]
As Venturebeat and Techcrunch have covered, today we’ve launched:
Dual Currency – Reward users with points that they can use to redeem virtual goods.
Achievements - game players will now be able to play one another anywhere on the web and record their in-game achievements to their Heyzap profile.
Twitter and Facebook Connect - users can share their achievements, [...]
We are excited to release our new community area for Heyzap!
Developers now have a profile page where they can showcase their portfolio of games, and there’s a great new forum to discuss everything related to flash game development, like announce your new game, or discuss how you are using Heyzap Payments in your next [...]
We have just released a feature that a lot of our users have been asking for – search. You can now find this in the top right hand part of the widget (large or expanded view). The search contains ratings, a thumbnail and the game title. So go ahead, search through the massive selection of [...]
You can now find the Heyzap plugin at Heyzap (heyzap.com/publishers/wordpress) and in the Wordpress plugin directory.
This brings the power of thousands of games to your blog. We have it installed on this blog, some of the other blogs that have the plugin in the wild (completely unaffiliated with Heyzap!):
http://storagesecrets.org/
http://www.jamesbuckingham.com/brainfart/
http://www.ajaysartape.com
A lot of users were installing on [...]
We have had a very busy weekend at Heyzap. Its been an amazing response since our launch. We have added some of the other press we received to heyzap.com/docs/press, will keep that up to date.
One of the major request we got was for a medium sized version of our widget, so we made one that [...]