Getting Social Media Games to Play Overseas
“In Market Street, a game played on social networks like Facebook, wannabe entrepreneurs open digital storefronts and compete with friends to attract shoppers. Many players pay real money to stock their virtual shelves with in-demand or seasonal items, such as rose bouquets on Valentine’s Day. That doesn’t work for the hundreds of thousands of Market Street players outside the U.S., in countries that don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day and other American holidays.
So Playdom, the company behind Market Street, hired Mentez, a startup based in Miami, to come up with a Valentine’s Day alternative for the Brazilian adaptation of the game, known as Paraíso das Compras. As a solution, Mentez programmed digital versions of iconic objects from the annual Carnaval festival, including feathered costumes, musical instruments, confetti, and noisemakers. They will be put up for sale in the Portuguese-language edition of the game, which is played on Orkut, Brazil’s most popular social network.”
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