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| Welcome to A Better World! |
I don’t play Facebook games mainly because I view them as another online time suck and method of harvesting personal information from my account but was curious when contacted to review A Better World, a new game that’s designed around doing good things. Game play earns Positive Points which advance players to then next level and promises new features and special items.
I started by customizing my avatar and was able to see which of my Facebook friends are already playing the game. I spent some time exploring the virtual world that consists of my home, the village, the town, and the countryside and checking out some of the games. Being connected to Facebook friends through the game allows me to leave them surprise gifts from my house.
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| My rockin’ heels were cut off! |
I’m not sure if in-real-life friends like Michele would want my wall paper or if Kim would really want my couch but giving away virtual items are viewed as a way of doing good things for others so I was happy to donate furnishings to my friends. I sort of hoped I could gift Shannan with a pet squirrel as an inside joke but since pets aren’t part of the game, I gave her a window out of which she can hopefully see the virtual squirrels.
Besides gifting objects to fellow A Better World friends, there are also games to play in order to earn Do-Good Gold and Positive Points. I quickly became obsessed with Three Cycle, a recycling game where the objective is to line up 3 or more like items (cans, plastic cups, water bottles, glass bottles, etc.) in order to make them disappear into the recycling bin and push the trash to the bottom.
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| Three Cycle: It took me forever to move that banana peel to the bottom of the screen! |
The game gets tricky because often times the trash gets stuck in the corner and there aren’t like objects that you can line up horizontally or vertically in order to push it to the bottom. Although, one might argue that banana peels and apple cores aren’t really trash….There should be a section for compostables! After 15 minutes of playing the Three Cycle I completed the challenge of getting rid of ten pieces of trash and earned 125 Do-Good Gold and 20 Positive Points.
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| I recycled my way to victory! |
Michele mentioned Thumping Thoughts in her review about A Better World so I thought I’d give it a try. Much less time consuming than Three Cycle, Thumping Thoughts is like Whack-a-Mole where you pound creatures representing negativity with the virtual mallet to earn gold and points.
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| Clearly I could improve my time! |
While I like the positivity of A Better World, I don’t know how often I’ll be playing because most of my time online is spent blogging, reading blogs, researching tech gadgets, reading gadget reviews, Tweeting, and Skyping but at least I’m no longer a Facebook game novice!
To learn more or play, visit the A Better World Facebook page.
I am receiving a gift card from Likeable Media as thanks for testing and writing about the game.
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Original post by Tech Savvy Mama
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very nice game…
What bothered me about this game: when I clicked on friend’s Status Update link, it did not take me to the standard application Permission page. Just a big image with word below Click Here.
Maybe by clicking there, it would load the Permission page, or maybe it would start downloading malicious software on my computer. Thee was also no way to connect to the game’s FB page, something I always check out before allowing a new app Permissions.
I did find it and it seems legitimate enough, yet leery, which is why I was searching for reviews. Thanks for the info.