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FunOrb is a casual gaming site produced by Jagex Ltd. Launched on 27 February 2008, it is the company's first major release since their successful MMORPG, RuneScape. All of the games are programmed in Java. Jagex has announced that this site is targeted towards the "hard casual", "deep casual" or "time-pressured" gamer market (specifically over-18s) and that it intends to expand into the mobile phone games market.[1][2][3]
[edit] SummaryFunOrb offers both single-player and multiplayer games. Multiplayer games allow players to communicate with each other through a public lobby, or through private chat, which can be used to talk to people on RuneScape, and vice versa. In all current multiplayer games, players receive a separate rating for each game, which symbolizes their experience with the games and can rise or fall based on their game performance. In all current multiplayer games, with the exception of the persistent-world game Dungeon Assault, players may play "rated" games, which finds random opponents and adjusts their rating based on their performance, or they can play unrated games with people of their choice, which have no effect on their rating. The site includes an achievement system which gives awards for completing challenges in single-player and multiplayer games. These include "Orb Coins", which players are able to spend on a variety of game content including desktop wallpapers, music, icons, and more.[4] Also awarded are "Orb Points", which can be compared to those of other players.[5] The site has been launched in English, German, French and Brazilian Portuguese, with more languages planned.[6] Jagex have stated that FunOrb will be updated every two weeks, either with a new game, an update to a game or an updated site feature.[7] Currently, only Jagex games are available on the site, but Jagex have stated that they are considering adding third party games to the site.[8] [edit] CostLimited versions of all FunOrb games are available for free, with costs covered by advertising. Some games are completely free, with the exception of fullscreen mode. Players have the option of becoming paying subscribers, which gives them access to more ingame content, among other things the option to play games in fullscreen mode and an increased amount of achievements. Subscribers are also granted immediate access to the FunOrb forums, whereas non-subscribers are required to have obtained at least 42 achievements before being allowed to post.[9] RuneScape players paying for FunOrb can also add an extra 100 people to their friends list (instead of the usual 100 they get 200). RuneScape members who use their accounts on FunOrb (all accounts are automatically transferred over) also have this limitation, and so if they are not FunOrb members they can add no new friends while on FunOrb if they have passed the 100 mark. [edit] Holiday eventsFrom 22 October 2008 to 5 November 2008, special Halloween Achievements were spread across 10 games, with each of those games having a temporary Halloween theme.[10] This were re-released on 28 October 2009, along with Achievements and Halloween themes for several other games.[11] On 18 December 2008, an update for the game Arcanists was released in celebration of Christmas, in the form of several costumes that players could buy with Orb Coins.[12] [edit] Current games  There are currently 38 games in total:
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