Facebook and gaming goes together like a fly on tape.
Having an account on Facebook gives users access to a huge network of games. Many popular games or gaming portals offered to associate themselves with Facebook giving users quick access to registering for games. There are also many games designed specifically for Facebook.
In a quick glance, there's Runescape, IJJI, and Habbo Hotel which gave Facebook users instant access into their games. Then there are the really Facebook games such as Farmville and Texas Hold'em Poker.
The original big games are still really the same before Facebook came in, though I imagine they've enjoyed a large surge of new users due to their Facebook accounts. But those other social games are real killers.
They are games that can become very addicting as these games focus on user's social network. For example, the popular Facebook game, Farmville, relies on building and growing a farm with the help of your friends. Such games progress with daily tender and from daily help from friends.
And this makes players have an urge to bring in more friends in order to help them advance in the game. Once their newly brought in friend immerses themselves in the community, they bring in their own friends, and this pattern continues.
When given some thought, these games really have an evil yet ingenious way to bring in new players and to keep them from leaving. Good job!
Personally, I find Facebook-based games somewhat tasteless and repetitive, but to each their own!
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