Even More Advergaming

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

There are now 11 people in my guild, we’re in the top 10, we control 504 sites, and we’re on the move.  Where is this all taking place?  In Sitizens, the new marketing game experiment by TimTech.

Just look at these stats:

1,065,764 ZENS – 2,677 CRESTS – 654 PLAYERS – 201,726 ARRIVALS – 346 PLAYED TODAY

I talked about the marketing trends of advergaming and gamification in yesterday’s blog and introduced you to SkyGames, a company that is using the trend towards casual games as a vehicle for income by providing a gaming environment with advertising.  Whether you just want to relax () with one of the 15 casual games currently available (more are on the way) or you’re looking to add an income stream to your portfolio ( I urge you to check out my game site.

Today, we’re turning to a different type of game. It’s called Sitizens (Site as in website + citizen) and it’s unlike anything you have ever seen before! It’s a social game. It’s a social network. It’s a potential MASSIVE advertising platform. But above all else…It’s addicting and fun!

Tim Linden reports that “This is the heart and soul of TimTech and is the reason this company formed over a year ago in the first place. Sitizens was the vision and we want to welcome you on board potentially the next ‘big thing’ in social gaming and networking.”

John Olson describes it this way “Sitizens is what I always thought a traffic exchange could become. Years ago, I was hooked on traffic exchange advertising and one thing about the start of these programs was when they first started they were filled with a mosaic of sites. Not every site you viewed was a ‘business opportunity’ or some kind of tripler, HYIP, scheme site…But for what seems like forever, traffic exchanges have been filled with these kind of programs only.”

Justin Ledvina has been putting so much time into the development of Sitizens that I don’t even have a quote from him.

The TimTech team fully admits that it’s LIVE, Sorta, because it’s not 100% developed.  Every day new things are added; things are tweaked, and/or moved or removed.  There are hints of things to come, like the armor panel that isn’t functional yet and the Quest counter when no quests exist yet.  The plan is that the team will be working on this EVERY day for months to come and as with everything ‘social’ it’ll be ever growing…Constant new ideas and improvements!

The point of Sitizens is to discover cool sites and arrive at them, become a king. Arrive more than 5 times, become a Sitizen….And then open it up and ‘Explore’ the internet while other players add new content…Do you see the massive potential here?

No longer is marketing limited to the ‘IM’ world, they’ve INCLUDED the IM world but branched out to the big bad world of the…Entire internet =)

Trying to describe the game aspect fully doesn’t do it justice.  Just know that essentially this is the most addicting thing ever. Get ready for the evolution of traffic exchanges and social gaming…A bold statement? Yup, it sure is! So traffic exchange world…What do you think?  Take it for a spin, join it, share it, poke it, play it…

Make sure you send me a friend request and by all means join the League of Roses guild.