FireFly MMO Platform Lets You Build Your Own Game And Monetize It With PlaySpan
Social Game developers Trilogy Studios announced today that their FireFly platform – a framework that allows developers to more easily create industrial strength Massively Multiplayer Online games – will leverage PlaySpan for monetization. PlaySpan will be FireFly’s preferred partner and enable FireFly based games to use subscriptions and digital goods monetization. Trilogy is already using the platform to create a series of games for social networks, the web, PC and Mac.
PlaySpan’s platform will also provide developer anlaytics, reporting and monthly payment settlement services to anybody that uses the FireFly platform. This means that when you decide to sign up with FireFly and create your game, PlaySpan will act as an account manager for your finances inside the game. This is really a complete offering from the folks at Trilogy and presents a great pre-packaged option for developers who are interested in social MMO development.
“We’ve spent the past five years building up an expertise in social and casual games, and now have a complete platform in Firefly to quickly deliver massive, immersive games for leading content publishers,” said Michael Pole, Trilogy Studios CEO. “Together with PlaySpan, we have a full service platform that works universally with third party developer tools and delivers top notch browser-based gameplay and monetization opportunities.”
The Firefly platform itself is meant to be a compact MMO engine that provides a plethora of MMO features. The list is shown below, as given to us from FireFly.
Features include:
-Â Support for a variety of gameplay elements including achievements and quests, skills development and leveling, in-world gameplay such as item collection and cooperative activities, as well as integrated game instances;
-Â An interactive experience that allows players to click, walk over, stand on, throw and mingle with virtually any object or character in the game;
-Â Integrated monetization program, in cooperation with PlaySpan, that offers subscriptions, sponsorships, microtransactions and advertising, as well as reporting and data mining
-Â Social networking features such as integrated email, chat and messaging; users can generate content in-game and post it to their profiles.
-Â Summon players across multiple servers for on-demand player interaction; track user interaction and make friend recommendations for compatible players.
-Â All games built on Firefly are COPPA compliant and include built-in child safety tools such as activity monitoring, filtered Free Chat and Safe Chat, parental monitoring tools and a dedicated interface for full visibility into their child’s online play.
