BP8_Platogo

Platogo is a social networking Flash gaming site. It works like this. You upload your flash games and then add friends, challenges, rewards, and level editor components. Compare you’re your scores to friends, challenge them in game play, give rewards and edit one of your game levels with the level editor.

Some of the other great things about Platogo are the plethora of tutorials, developer center, and the earn money features. Some of the tutorials are about: game loading, getting started, high scores, rewards, money, and game data. In the developer center you find the Facebook Guide, social feature components, and how to monetize your game. To make money with your game you can use ads plus sell game and player upgrades.

For a wider audience for you games you can share them with the entire Platogo community and/or get even more exposure by loading them on to Facebook using the Platogo guide provided. This manual is straightforward and gives you step-by-step instructions on how to that.

To broaden my student’s perspective on Flash games, I’m going to have them play and evaluate games on Platogo. It always helps to see how someone else puts something together because you get ideas of how you can make it better or different. Also, you might say, “Wow, how did they do that?,” which gets curiosity and creativity going. It makes you want to figure out how they did it.

My online gaming students are going to be excited about this site, but I’m going to check it out further to see if I can create a private Facebook group that they can load their games to. Furthermore, I’ll need school and parent permission.