Its official! 

With great proud and joy we can now announce that Tweet Land will be available worldwide on the Appstore as from January 31st! It’s time to celebrate and play the first game that plays with reality!

Here’s the official trailer, go ahead and share it with your friends!! Cheers!!!

More info at tweetlandgame.com

PSFK interview: Future of Gaming

 

The PSFK consulting team has noticed that as social media becomes more mainstream, it is becoming an integral aspect of gaming by making new experiences possible.One company operating in this space is Tweetland–a company that has created a game using experiences reported on Twitter to create in-game content. ‘TweetLand’ is the first videogame in the world that plays with reality by factoring in real life experiences from people all over the world using Twitter messages to create content inside the game that will affect gameplay.  Some events affect the game to help the player, while other events provide challenges and difficult situations that the player will have to confront. For example, if a user in New York reports a traffic accident on Twitter, the gameplay may reflect that event, turning the tweets of the real world into events in the virtual world. PSFK spoke to the founders of TweetLand about their game[…]

  

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We want you to be featured in our official TRAILER. Interested?

Hello tweetlanders!

As many of you may know, the game is now ready and we are working on the final details of the campaign’s launch! One of these details is an uber important mega cool trailer. We are working on a nice script to go with it, and we want to include you in it! Our plan is to involve tweetlanders all over the world to be featured in Tweet Land´s official game trailer. To do this, we’d like to encourage all of you to record a video of yourselves using an iOS device - similar to the video we are attaching with this message. 

The idea is to collect videos of people worldwide using an iPhone, iPod or iPad at different iconic locations - this way, when editing we can show in the trailer people of the world using their device to tweet and/or play Tweet Land. Because of post-production reasons, we would need for you not to show the device’s screen (similar to the reference video we are attaching).

If you possess high video filming/editing skills and know-how, that’s perfect! Just try to record it with the same techniques used in the reference video - focus, illumination, composition, etc. If you don’t, thats also ok! Do what you can and send us your video!

REQUIRED:

  • Have fun! Show a smile to the camera! ;)
  • Avoid showing your iOS device’s screen.
  • Try to don’t show flags, brands or any similar stuff.

DESIRED:

  • Use the same techniques used on the reference video (focus, illumination, composition, etc.).
  • Record the video in some nice location that somehow represents the place you are from (for example, if you’re from NY, recording yourself in Central Park or 5th Avenue would be a good idea).
  • Record in HD (720p).

We’re taking any length and video format videos; send as many takes and/or videos as you want!

We will choose the best videos and include them on the trailer. To all tweetlanders that send us their videos: we will give 1 limited edition Tweet Land postcard signed by all the team members to one lucky winner.

If you are interested in being featured in the first trailer of the first game that plays with reality, send us your video, download link, or YouTube link to imFamous@tweetlandgame.com. The deadline will be November 1st.Hurry up! Maybe your friends could watch you on the next GameTrailer´s or IGN´s featured videos!

Note: Needless to say, by sending your video you are allowing us to use it in our official trailer. :)

WE ARE ALIVE! For the last couple of months we have worked night and day, and at last we have the game ready!! We are a few weeks away from our AppStore debut, but before we ship it, we have to define some final details. One of these is our game’s appstore icon, and we need your help on this!Which of the following icons would you prefer the best to be used in the Appstore?
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WE ARE ALIVE!

For the last couple of months we have worked night and day, and at last we have the game ready!! We are a few weeks away from our AppStore debut, but before we ship it, we have to define some final details. One of these is our game’s appstore icon, and we need your help on this!

Which of the following icons would you prefer the best to be used in the Appstore?

Thank you!

Welcome Beta Testers!

If you pledged $15 or more at our Kickstarter project, probably this days you will receive an email explaining how to install your Tweet Land Beta. After a lot of tweaking, we can finally release the Beta version of the first game that plays with reality! We hope you like it and leave us feedback. We are focused on creating a dynamic and new gaming experience full of surprises, but above all, we are aiming to make a game that we will love as developers and gamers aswell!

Please, have fun!

Easter Egg!

Hi Tweetlanders,

In order to return all the love we have received, we want to give you guys an Easter Egg surprise and show you some new art and tweet events we’ve been working on. Among the new stuff you will see here, there is one that could be seen a lot depending on Twitter service. So, be careful with the #failWhale that will show up when Twitter starts giving many problems.

Easter Egg

Also remember that we still have 10 days to go on Kickstarter, so if you own a blog, know someone from the media, or simply your neighbor have not pledge yet, you still can show them the project and invite them to play with reality. And if you had already pledged, don´t be shy to show it to the world and spread the love. Here we are giving you a twibbon you can add to your Twitter avatar to show the support. You only have to click here and follow the easy steps. Have fun!Finally thanks again for believing that playing with reality is possible. By now, we are sending you guys a huge hug from Costa Rica and tons of karma for free.

Tweet Land team members

Tweet Land team sign

 *By the way, if you are interested in making an interview with the team, have a press inquiry or just want to say hi, you can mail us to contact@tweetlandgame.com

Este viernes 15 en El 13, Noche de Tweet Land. Se donará al proyecto en Kickstarter el 13% de todo lo que se consuma. Más que invitados a ir!

The Kickstarter Blog: Creator Q&A: Tweet Land

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Tweet Land! What is more enticing than a game called Tweet Land?? Plain old Twitter is so passé by now anyway. In this video game, social networks meet social gaming as people race through game worlds impacted by real-time tweets. The six game-makers behind the scenes of Tweet Land…

Busy week at Kickstarter project

Hi Tweetlanders. Sorry for not recent posts, but it has been a really busy week since we launch this monday our Kickstarter project to make Tweet Land happen. If you have not heard about it yet, please check it out here. Its awesome!

We are glad to announce that at one week from the launch in Kickstarter, we are 50% of our initial goal. However, we must be sure to reach the $7000 before the deadline, because if we don´t  -it doesnt matter the amount of pledges we have- , no money will change hands. So keep helping and spreading the word. Remember that the more support we get, the bigger and funner Tweet Land will be.

Kickstarter 50%

In other big news, we have been receiving support from all over the world. You can read the hundreds of tweets here. Also we have been mentioned in blogs, press, tv and radio broadcasters in Costa Rica, Italy, England, Spain, United States, latinamerica, etc. Here are a couple of links so you can watch them:

And finally we want to announce that we are adding two NEW rewards. So if you have a rich uncle or a famous neighbor that have not pledge yet, this is the time to share our Kickstarter project with them.

Let us introduce the ‘Black-Tie’ and ‘God-of-Tweet’ Rewards!

Kickstarter Tweet Land Rewards

Know more about this rewards here