


One edge perceived in social gaming is the fact that aside from the gameplay itself, gamers can go on multiplayer wherein they can challenge their friends in real time instead of random people while being fully immersed in the game.

Although new Facebook games and game developers have emerged throughout the years, Zynga is known to be one of the first to pave the way for the growth of social gaming. Zynga is the creator of some of the best Facebook games like Texas Hold Em Poker and FarmVille. A game developer known to have grown on Facebook is Zynga. Popular Facebook games such as Farmville and Candy Crush, to name a few, skyrocketed in the number of players in the early 2010’s. Did you know that social gaming began to rise on Facebook around 2009? The success of social gaming was almost comparable to that of Nintendo’s that a lot of game applications started including their mobile games on Facebook.
