Online newspapers/blogs should definitely consider a feature like this. It could be really helpful in getting users to visit more often if they start designing their time around reading a few articles and then playing games for a bit.
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Bit of a head scratcher for content owners as you point out. It would however make a nice bullet point for considering a web site: if you're considering HeyZap, you have a problem.
Unless you're running a casual forum, in which case it could be another thing for people to discuss and compete about.
Valid point.
Re: Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social Games Bar
#13I think it's cool to have a widget that you can embed within your website, just like you embed a youtube video... but it looks like with heyzap, when they play a game, it lightboxes and obscures your website - they may as well have been redirected to heyzap to play it. Do heyzap do a small game widget that sits within the page?
Yes we do in various sizes: http://www.heyzap.com/publishers/get_started The lighbox only happens when the user is in the middle of the game, which we thought was reasonable to avoid them clicking out by mistake and ruining the game. Happy to hear other alternatives.
So as soon as they click "Play", it opens a lightbox and hides the rest of the site.
Is there any option to just have the game play within the widget area? I think it'd make for some more seamless integrations into existing sites.
Re: Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social Games Bar
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes we do in various sizes: http://www.heyzap.com/publishers/get_started The lighbox only happens when the user is in the middle of the game, which we thought was reasonable to avoid them clicking out by mistake and ruining the game. Happy to hear other alternatives.
So as soon as they click "Play", it opens a lightbox and hides the rest of the site. Is there any option to just have the game play within the widget area? I think it'd make for some more seamless integrations into existing sites.
The bigger widget plays within the widget area (the 650px+ widgets).
Game need certain real estate unfortunately.
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#15"So the bar, which sits at the bottom of a website, is a new, less intrusive option to use Heyzap."
Arguably so. However, I've always found bars like that to be much more intrusive than a little widget towards the side of a website - one can't just scroll past them, and my eye is drawn towards things which stay the same as I scroll but which aren't normally there - which is really irritating.
Re: Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social Games Bar
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
So as soon as they click "Play", it opens a lightbox and hides the rest of the site. Is there any option to just have the game play within the widget area? I think it'd make for some more seamless integrations into existing sites.
The bigger widget plays within the widget area (the 650px+ widgets). Game need certain real estate unfortunately.
Ah ok, hadn't tried that size. Thanks for clarifying.