Over the last few weeks, the zembly team has been working
closely with
Pramati
Technologies to build a compelling game for the upcoming 2008
Summer Games in Beijing.
This is a Facebook game called "myPicks Beijing 2008"
The game allows people to predict winners in the 2008
Summer Games
When a user signs in they identify themselves
with a country.
If your predictions are accurate, you win points.
All points they accumulate are also credited to
their country.
You can view the leaderboards of countries,
individuals. See how
your friends are doing. See how your fellow countrymen are doing.
Use the widget on the left to get some quick stats on the number of
people playing the game for a particular country. The widget then takes
you to a page that explains the game and then allows you to go to the
location in Facebook where you can play the game.
Over the course of the the next few weeks, I expect to provide more
information here on how we built the game - including the strategies
that we used
to scale the game to allow 300,000 users to play simultaneously.
Let the Games Begin!
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