Bunchball learns from games on Facebook, creates its own for shows like The Office
Bunchball masquerades as a network of casual game widgets that you play within a social network like Facebook — not unlike competitors Zynga and the Social Gaming Network. But it’s really doing much more. It collects data about your behavior when you play, and uses that data to build games and virtual worlds for the web sites of TV shows and movies, such as this one for The Office.
These games are supposed to give media… Continue Reading
Bunchball raises $2M for interactive “flash” games
Bunchball, a Redwood City start-up that lets people create Flash-based interactive games for multiple players, and then insert them in blogs and other Web sites, has raised around $2 million in in a first round of funding.
Backers included Adobe Systems, which makes the Flash technology for these games and Granite Ventures, an SF venture firm that has been affiliated with Adobe in the past.
Bunchball was founded by Rajat Paharia and Sunil Singh. There’s more… Continue Reading