Face­book Games To Pep Up Your Face­book Page

Games are in de­mand everywhere!

So­cial gam­ing is the way for­ward to en­gage users in an in­ter­ac­tive activity.

Not all of us have the re­sources to de­velop unique games for our Face­book Fans, and so some Face­book Apps de­vel­op­ing agen­cies have come up with plug and play face­book game apps.

The idea of de­vel­op­ing games is to get the Fan hooked on and keep re­turn­ing to the page to play it.

What’s bet­ter is if the games are re­ward­ing - with ac­tual prizes and not just points. Even bet­ter, if the win is based on luck, be­cause then the game can be­come addictive.

A cou­ple of ex­cit­ing games that will keep the fan en­gaged are:

Scratch and Win

In this game, the user is asked to Like a Face­book Page to be able to play it for the first time.

This fea­ture helps to in­crease the num­ber of fans to the page. Once the user has be­come a fan, he/she is pre­sented with a scratchie, like a lot­tery ticket which needs to be scratched with a coin to re­veal what’s hid­den underneath.

The an­i­ma­tions of the app are pre-de­vel­oped and all the ad­min has to do is in­stall it, con­fig­ure it with their re­quire­ments and ac­ti­vate it. For eg: ad­min can de­cide to give every 5^th player the prize. He can de­cide that every 5^th, 7^th and 10^th player gets a con­cert ticket, an iPod and a $500 voucher re­spec­tively. The prize win­ners and de­tails are usu­ally com­pletely customisable.

When a player does not win in the first chance, they can try again in 24 hours and thus the game app en­sures the re­turn of the player to try their luck at win­ning an awe­some prize.

Pick One

Sim­i­lar to Scratch and Win - Pick One Face­book Game App has a unique an­i­ma­tion design.

The game is fan-gated as well to al­low the page to in­crease the num­ber of fans. In this game the player is pre­sented with 3 boxes and the boxes are shuf­fled. The player is asked to se­lect any one of the box. In­side any one ran­dom box a prize is hid­den, but the re­main­ing 2 boxes have a “try again - bet­ter luck next time” mes­sage! Again, the game de­tails are com­pletely cus­tomised, and so ad­min can de­cide how many and which win­ners re­ceive which prize.

Cus­tom Games

Of Course, if your brand re­quires some­thing unique to en­gage the fans then you can get a game de­vel­oped as well.

These can be sim­ple cross­words, or time-based games as well. Any game that can keep your fan re­turn­ing to your page is a good in­vest­ment. Cus­tomised games have the ad­van­tage of adding more spe­cific brand­ing in terms of im­ages, colour and an­i­ma­tion and not just ban­ners. Cus­tom games can also be themed around brand’s prod­ucts or ser­vices, in­clud­ing their CSR campaigns.

At the end of the day the ideal game is sticky, helps you in­crease fans, makes your fans aware of your prod­ucts and ser­vices, en­gages them at an emo­tional level and hopes to con­vert fans into loyal customers.