Adding community features to iPhone apps

Posted by Kieran on November 12, 2009 under Mobile, iPhone | Be the First to Comment

With particular note for free applications that need to increase their “stickyness” to achieve reasonable revenues via in application advertisements such as those provided by Admob, adding community features such as a high score boards and messaging between users.

http://corporate.scoreloop.com/

Provides location aware global high score boards

Ability to post to notifications to Facebook

Issue player challenges

Cross promotion of other games in the score loop system

Example game Wild Solitaire http://linktoapp.com/wild+solitaire

http://www.openfeint.com/

Compare games with friends

Location based scoreboards

game profiles

Achievements

Example game: http://linktoapp.com/alex+the+fox

http://plusplus.com/

Plus Plus is NGMocos private version of the above tools, they do intend to make it open in the future however

Example game: http://linktoapp.com/eliminate