I hinted at this a few weeks ago. GigaOM Online put up an article about it yesterday (to a degree) and now it seems like the stars are aligning. I look at Facebook and see the next social gaming platform, especially with the opening up of their developer API just over two months ago. As I see it, the only ingredient missing from the mix is that killer gaming applications.

Facebook has the three other factors needed to launch a social gaming platform. It has the community, the infrastructure and the money to support a social gaming platform. I think vision is important as well but without the other three factors your vision is pretty much useless in my opinion. Getting your game to become the “It” child of Facebook is not going to be easy. You are not only competing with other games but 2000+ other applications that are fighting for the attention and profile real estate of Facebook users.

In this series of blog posts, I will address the key elements that are positioning Facebook to become the next social gaming platform; community, infrastructure, and money. In the final part of this series, I’ll look at Kongregate as well as what a killer gaming applications might look like. I’ll be doing a separate review on Kongregate down the road, however, it’s something I felt compelled to look at while writing this feature. I think Kongregate has all the factors that the final part in this series mentions to become the leader in social gaming on Facebook. Who knows, maybe Facebook is already thinking about this for their next update and plan to launch a social game.

Check out the other posts in this series
Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 2
Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 3
Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 4
Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 5
Facebook: The Next Social Gaming Platform Part 6

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