Thursday, October 2, 2008

Games2Win’s Crapster among Top 5 Orkut applications

After the success of Slapster, Games2Win.com (G2W) recently launched a new Orkut application – Crapster. At 9 pm on July 8, Crapster was listed fourth on the popularity scale among Orkut applications.Crapster is the Social Networking Site (SNS) version of an existing G2W game called Dungfoo Donkey. It took the entire G2W team two weeks to complete Crapster.Games2win Founder and CEO Alok Kejriwal said, “With Slapster’s success, we recognized that users enjoy a bit of spunk, wit and cheekiness. Most of our games are a bit naughty too, and manage to make users laugh as they play.” Remarking on Crapster’s quick success, he added, “Crapster gives users a unique and cheeky way to interact with their friends. It’s an engaging yet light-hearted platform. Users these days don’t take each other too seriously and love to laugh - Crapster allows them to do just that.”Alok further said that very soon G2W applications will be on an array of SNS sites such as Hi-Fi, MySpace, Bebo and Friendster.About the challenges faced while creating Crapster, Alok commented, “Every project is a challenge in that it needs to appeal to our users. Be it in terms of concept, simplicity in usage, level of interaction - the fate of the application lies in the hands of our consumers. We need to understand what users are looking for and deliver just that. Therefore the real challenge begins once we are live. It’s all about the reaction of users, and not so much the action of creating an application.”The next application, he promised, is sure to be just as innovative and unique and will be unveiled soon. G2W creates up to eight new games each month on Games2Win.com and soon plans to double this number. “Our SNS applications have proven to be a big hit and we will continue making our presence felt in this space by exploring more SNS platforms and creating new applications, thus allowing users to interact with each other in a unique G2W way. Our ultimate aim is to deliver one new game each day for users,” Alok concluded. Slapster, G2W's first Orkut application is currently leading in terms of popularity.