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| Social City | |
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| Developer(s) | PushButton Labs, Playdom Eugene |
| Publisher(s) | Playdom |
| Designer(s) | Jeff Tunnell Dan Yue Alex Swanson |
| Platform(s) | Internet, iPhone, Facebook |
| Release | March, 2010 - Facebook April 20, 2010 - iPhone[1] |
| Genre(s) | City-building, Simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player with multiplayer interaction |
Social City was a real-time city-building simulation game developed in association with American studio PushButton Labs[2] and published by Playdom. Social City was released as an application for Facebook and the iPhone. The iPhone version was developed by Playdom in their Mountain View, CA office.
In 2010, Social City won the first ever "Best Social Network Game"[3] award presented at GDC Online.[4] In addition, it was ranked the #2 Facebook game available in 2010 by Inside Social Games.[5] City of Wonder, another city-building game built upon the same PushButton Engine and also developed by Playdom was named the #1 Facebook game available in 2010 by Inside Social Games.
Social City had around 5.7 Million monthly active users on Facebook as of September 2010[6] however this number has been as high as nearly 13 Million monthly active users.
- ^ http://forum.playdom.com/showthread.php?t=6894[permanent dead link]
- ^ http://pushbuttonlabs.com/2010/03/social-city-soft-launched-on-facebook-playdom/ [dead link]
- ^ "Game Developers Choice Online Awards". gdconlineawards.com. Archived from the original on 2015-10-14. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
- ^ "Game Developers Choice Online Awards". Archived from the original on 2019-05-13. Retrieved 2011-02-04.
- ^ http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2010/06/30/best-facebook-games-of-2010-part-i/
- ^ "Social City Facebook Application Statistics | Facebakers.com". Archived from the original on 2010-08-29. Retrieved 2010-09-28.