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How to create social games for millions of users Bastian Hofmann VZnet Netzwerke Ltd.
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Slides of my workshop at the QuoVadis conference about the creation of social games, based on OpenSocial
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How to create social games for millions of usersBastian HofmannVZnet Netzwerke Ltd.
• Social games at VZnet
• Introduction to OpenSocial
• Key concepts of OpenSocial
• Demo: Creating a social game
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Apps and Games @VZnet
33 Mio. Installs
1,8 Mio. DAU
5,5 Mio. MAU
VZ-‐Apps compared to other gaming sites
Daily Unique Visitors (Mio) Time on Site (min)
VZ-‐Apps 1,80 10:50
jetztspielen.de 1,30 13:50
gameduell 1,10 20:00
SpieleFpps.de 1,00 09:00
king.com 1,00 28:00
BigPoint 1,00 05:40
1001spiele.de 0,46 20:00
spielkarussel 0,43 14:40
gamesload 0,29 04:30
feLspielen 0,24 14:20
spielen.de 0,18 12:30
Yahoo! Spiele 0,16 04:30
spiele-‐zone.de 0,12 12:00
sevengames 0,11 05:50Google! Adplanner, Feb 2010
Dorfleben (HalfQuest)
DEMO
• ... a set of APIs to access the social graph of users
• ... a specification for including 3rd party applications (gadgets) into social services
Top Developers at VZnet
Beijing ELEX4.6 Mio.
Plinga2.08 Mio.
i-‐Jet Media1.33 Mio.
Monthly active users within all applications
• XML file with HTML and JavaScript (and CSS, Images, Flash, ...)
• Application based on the Google Gadgets specification
• Can be included on various platforms
What is a Gadget?
Rendering
GADGETapivz.net
CONTAINERmeinvz.net
Social APIs
• OpenSource implementation of an OpenSocial container
• Java and PHP versions available
• New: MySpace is currently open sourcing their .NET implementation
http://shindig.apache.org/
Views
CANVAS
PROFILE
POPUP
GROUP
EMBED
PREVIEW
Features
VIEWER
Authentification
• Two-Legged or Three-Legged OAuth
• Security Token for JavaScript requests from gadget
Application models
JavaScript basedContainervz.net
Gadget apivz.net
Gadget Backendapi.twitter.com
Ajax
HTTP
Shindigapivz.net
HTTP
Containervz.net
Gadget apivz.net
Gadget Backendapi.twitter.com
Shindigapivz.net
Ajax
Ajax
HTTP
Proxy
Containervz.net
Gadget apivz.net
Method Call
- window.postMessage
- Iframes with relay files
- Flash
JavaScript RPC
FlashContainervz.net
Gadget apivz.net Gadget Backend
api.twitter.comHTTP
Shindigapivz.net
Flash
Ajax
HTTP
HTTP
RedirectingContainervz.net
Gadget Backendapi.twitter.com
Shindigapivz.net
iframeapi.twitter.com
HTTP
Ajax
Additional IframeContainervz.net
Gadget apivz.net Gadget Backend
api.twitter.com
Shindigapivz.net
iframe
Ajax
Ajax
HTTP
Let‘s start programming
OpenSocial Templates
OpenSocial on the iPhone
OEmbed
OAuth Proxy Requests
DataPipelining
OSAPI
Proxied Content
https://github.com/bashofmann/opensocial_demo_game
DEMO
Proxied Content
DEMO
OAuth 1.0a Flow +----------+ +---------------+ | -+----(B)-- Request Token -------->| | | End-user | | Authorization | | at |<---(C)-- User authenticates --->| Server | | Browser | | | | -+----(D)-- Verifier -------------<| | +-|----|---+ +---------------+ | | ^ v (B) (D) | | | | | | ^ v | | +---------+ | | | |>---(A)-- Redirect URL ---------------| | | Web |<---(A)-- Request Token + Secret -----| | | Client |>---(E)-- Request Token, Verifier ----' | | |<---(E)-- Access Token + Secret -------------' +---------+
Every Request: Client Credentials, Nonce, Timestamp, Signaturehttp://oauth.net/
DEMO
DEMO
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