TONS of medals won since last time! 59,849 gold medals to be exact.
But guess what, the ladies are still in the lead. Gentlemen, what’s going on here? You’ve gotta limber up those fingers and win it out there! You have the advantage in numbers! (55% guys, 45% ladies)
Girls Gold Medals: 55,562
Guys Gold Medals: 46,488
P.S. We can tell when people are cheating to get medals, and those #’s are not counted.
It hasn’t even been a full day, but the ladies have been kicking it into gear.
Girls: 23,127
Guys: 19,074
Before we started, we were thinking about adjusting the # of medals for women up a bit, because the guys playing outnumbered them a bit. But. Looks like you ladies can handle yourselves.
Gentlemen, take it up a notch!
It’s time to go for the gold!
We’ll be keeping track of all gold medals earned by guys and gals over the next 5 days (ends next Monday at 3 pm). Whichever group gets the most gold medals in Balloono during this period will earn a prize for everyone of that gender.
That means if gals get the most Golds, then all girls on the site get a prize. Ditto for the dudes.
The prize could be coins or a special item… we’ll reveal over the next few days.
We’ll also be updating our Blog on a daily basis to let you know how its going! http://blog.omgpop.com
Rules:
-Only Balloono games with 3 or more players counts.
-Any cheating to raise medal counts will get your account deleted. As usual.
Good luck to both ladies and gentlemen! Feel free to recruit your friends to help.
We thought it’d be fun to rename a couple of our original Karts. How about you help us out.
Suggest some names, and maybe even a description for both of the Basic and Trainer hover karts in the pics above! Maybe you’ll even get a shout out in the kart description…
Looking forward to seeing your ideas in the comments below!
Download our OMGPOP Game Pack and you’ll have all the files you need to put any of OMGPOP’s public games on your website or any other where you can upload games. (and we LOVE it when you share our games with others!)
Download it here!
http://tinyurl.com/omgpopgamepack
Contained in the above zip file are the SWF files and game art needed for all of our current games (even our hidden ones!).
If you aren’t sure what to do with the files in the pack, don’t worry, you don’t even need them to put the games on your blog or website. You can embed any of our games anywhere just using the Embed Code on the main page of any game. Just click on the Embed code under the box that shows you your time played. For example, the Missile Command main page: http://www.omgpop.com/games/missilecommand
Get an article about omgpop.com written in your official school paper and we’ll hook you up with 300,000 coins and other magically special bonuses for getting the article in there.
Here’s how it works:
1. Email us at panda@omgpop.com stating that you’re interested in writing about us in your school paper and that you can make it happen! We can work with you to provide ideas on an interesting topic for the article.
2. Get the article about omgpop.com in your school paper.
3. Send us a copy of the article!
4. We give you 300,000 coins and hook you up with other special bonuses.
We may ask you for a picture or scan of your paper, or some other stuff, just to make sure it’s legit.
Sharing OMGPOP with your school means a lot to us here at OMGPOP, so when it happens, we’re going to do our best to make sure you’re well thanked and rewarded.
This is only open to students at actual schools. Yes, you can split the coins with a fellow student or two. Trying to fake us out will get you banned, so be honest, and thanks!
Want some free, awesome OMGPOP stickers?
Make it easy for us to send you some, and they are yours!
All you have to do is mail us an envelope that has a stamp and your address on it, and we’ll put like 5 stickers in it and drop it in the mailbox for you. (If you don’t provide stamps, we can’t mail it back!)
Send your S.A.S.E (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope) to:
OMGPOP
132 Crosby St.
8th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Remember, you’re sending an envelope WITHIN another envelope! Don’t forget the stamps too. Ask your parents for help if you’re not sure about this!
When we get it, we open it up, see your envelope to yourself, insert some stickers, and mail it back to you. Got it? Awesome.
This is for a limited time or until we run out of stickers, so make sure you send us your envelope by March 2nd. Also, if we run out of stickers, we might just have to send you a Post It note autographed by Charles instead.
OTHER QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE:
The stickers are just a bit larger than a credit card so standard size long envelopes will work fine.
UPDATE: Based on the feedback I’m getting from our international users, its sounding like preparing a self addressed stamped envelope (s.a.s.e.) that we can just send right back is tricky, so for the time being, we will restricting this to the U.S. If you feel like you’re able to send us a S.A.S.E. from outside the U.S. and all we’ll have to do is pop it in the mailbox, email us first just to make sure everything is all set before you mail it out: feedback@omgpop.com
This is open to everyone around the world as long as all we have to do is put the return envelope in a mailbox. That means you need to make sure the return envelope has enough postage and that you have everything labeled correctly. This might involve labeling it as air mail, putting on a ton of stamps. Check with your local post office for details!
Please put OMGPOP as the return address on the return envelope… so FROM: omgpop, 132 Crosby St., New York, NY 10012 TO: (you and your address). And this would of course be inside the regular envelope you are sending to us.
If you have other questions, post a comment below!
WAIT. What are you going to do with these stickers? Take a picture of one of your stickers being somewhere cool (and publicly visible, so you can advertise for us!) and if you do something impressive with em’, we’ll possibly reward you on the site.
Play Super Girl by Samantha Marq in Hit Machine and you’ll be entered for a chance to win an iPod!
You can enter once per day by playing her song in Hit Machine. Play every day to increase your chances of winning.
The contest runs until March 12th, for a total of 30 days, so thats up to 30 entries.
Up for grabs is:
1st prize - iPod Touch
2nd prize - iPod Nano
3rd prize - iPod Shuffle
Also, take 5 seconds to sign up for a FREE membership @ http://www.SamanthaMarq.com and you can download “Super Girl” for free
..Or If you download Super Girl from iTunes 100% of the proceeds will be donated to charity (through 3/31/10 the charities are http://igopink.org and Red Cross for Haiti Relief our goal is to raise $50,000)
Follow Samantha Marq on Twitter @SamanthaMarq and add her on Myspace
Good luck!
On January 12, Haiti was hit by a 7.0 Magnitude earthquake — the worst in two centuries — that caused massive damage and left a lot of people in need of immediate aid.
OMGPOP wants to do our part to help. Our goal is to raise money and awareness of this tragedy among the high school and college aged folks who make up our members.
OMGPOP and its employees donate real money based on your actions. For every specially designated item bought in the store, we will donate the cash equivalent. We try to choose the charity or charities that we believe will offer the most direct use of funds. Two examples are the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund and Doctors Without Borders. We cap our total monthly donation from OMGPOP at $5,000 US dollars per month. This is a significant contribution and as we find sponsors to get involved we hope to raise this amount.
To start out, we’ve released a special Support Haiti frame in our shop. For each one you snag with your coins, we’ll donate $0.25 to a charity. You can visit the shop here http://www.omgpop.com/#/shops/shop/profile/category/frames
Thanks for reading and helping make a difference in Haiti.
Check out our available positions below. If you’ve got the passion and the skills, you might be right for the OMGPOP team!
All positions are in NYC.
FRONT END DEVELOPER
Primary Responsibilities:
Architect and develop the omgpop social platform and website.
Required Skills:
3+ years of solid software development experience.
Expertise in Flash Development: Action script, CPU/Memory optimization, JavaScript/Flash bridging, Cross-browser compatability.
Design and game development experience.
Front end experience for consumer website.
Experience with product development relating to social media, advertising and commerce driven businesses.
Deep understanding of consumer behavior and what drives usage, acquisition and retention of users.
Start-up experience (not just agency experience).
Please include examples of your work when applying
Resumes/Questions to jobs@omgpop.com
GAME DEVELOPER
Primary Responsibilities:
Development of new social games and related features.
Contribute to the evolvement of existing games.
Required Skills:
Strong programming knowledge across several languages and platforms including ActionScript 3, Java and/or C++.
Solid understanding of algorithms, physics and math.
A natural feeling for and understanding of good gameplay mechanics.
A desire to make games which privilege being played and popular over being cool or indie. And games that are fundamentally social.
Ability to work on games that other developers have started and jump-in.
Flash/AS3 knowledge is a plus.
Facebook game experience is a plus.
Examples of games produced (that we can play).
Resumes/Questions to jobs@omgpop.com
PRODUCT MANAGER
Primary Responsibilities:
Own product features from start to finish and manage process to complete them.
Drive growth through deployment of features.
Determine and analyze key success metrics, and rigorously test and optimize for them.
Required Skills:
2-5 years of experience in product management in consumer internet, social media or online gaming.
Ability to self start as well as deliver timely performance from others and work in a free form environment.
Obsessed with details.
Must have proven experience in contributing to a successful project or product in the past.
Experience with multivariate testing.
Understanding of market opportunities and how to position products in regards to consumer needs and competition.
Experience with a web based company managing web based applications.
Passion for creating fun, compelling and addictive user experiences.
Strong organizational and analytical skills & attention to detail.
Experience with social networking, games, start ups is a big plus.
Resumes/Questions to jobs@omgpop.com
ILLUSTRATOR
OMGPOP is looking for an illustrator to join our growing team.
Responsibilities:
The illustrator be working with the Art Director and Producer, creating art assets for items in the site, as well as art inside games. This position will also work with web and marketing teams to create game-related artwork. We are looking for a design style similar to toki doki, kid robot, etc.
Required Skills:
Quick sketching and storyboarding experience
Ability to communicate visually, and to identify and define visual design issues and solutions
Excellent design skills, including the effective use of color, form, lighting and composition
Well-organized.
A passion for games, and social networking
Experience in the game industry a plus
Excellent Illustrator skills (CS3/4)
Experience in Flash to manage assets
Resumes/Questions to jobs@omgpop.com
BACKEND RUBY DEVELOPER
We’re looking for a key backend ruby developer to round out our team!
The ideal candidate:
Has passion for the job and for ruby.
Has 3+ years ruby experience.
Has 5+ years experience developing scalable high trafficed web applications.
Uses Agile, BDD/TDD and other best practices.
Has experience architecting and implementing RESTful APIs.
Has excellent organizational and communication skills.
Has a strong understanding of the server side software, scalability, performance and reliability aspects.
Always investigates interesting new tools and techniques.
Is able to own a project from beginning to end, design, develop and deliver it on time,
And make sure it works perfectly in production.
You strive to be the best of the best in the industry, always innovating, always
learning. You have worked in a start up environment before and know it’s a good
fit for you. You get told to do something and you run with it. Sometimes you
have to read minds to know what’s wanted but then you deliver and it’s cooler
than we thought it was. And then you surprise us and build something we didn’t
expect. Because this isn’t a job where you punch the clock and get paid. This is
a mission to build something big. And if you have that nagging feeling that what
you really want is a job, not a calling, it’s probably not for you.
Resumes/Questions/Luxurious Gifts to jobs@omgpop.com
No Recruiters. Srsly.
Click here for the most up to date open positions: http://www.omgpop.com/#/info/jobs
We added some new features, check it out!
MAKE OMGPOP FASTER (at the cost of some eye candy)
If you find OMGPOP going a bit slow or “lagging” for you, try clicking on the “eye” icon on the far bottom right of the screen. It’s right next to the mute button. When you press it, some of the art on the site will look a bit more jagged, but hey, it may give just the boost you need!
FREE COINS FOR LINKING YOUR ACCOUNT
Use more than one login to get into your account, and get Coins for it.
When you confirm your email, and connect via Facebook and AIM you’ll get lots of coins.
Connect your accounts here: http://www.omgpop.com/#account/login
Connect your Facebook account to your OMGPOP account for 3000 coins!
Confirm your email address for 1000 coins!
Connect your AIM address for 1000 coins!
That’s potentially a free 5000 coins. (Did you know you can get ANOTHER 1000 coins for fanning us on Facebook? http://facebook.com/omgpop )
Any questions? Press the red Feedback tab on the left to get into our feedback and help section.
You now get STAR for LIFE by reaching level 100 on OMGPOP.
You can also get bonus months of STAR for purchasing select coin packs.
Read more here: http://getsatisfaction.com/omgpop/topics/earn_star_for_life_at_level_100
You can now gift your friends items from the shop! Just press the Gift button under any item, start to type in their name, and check off.
Once you send off the gift, you’ll be charged for the coins and your friend will get an inbox message with a gift box from you waiting to be opened.
So exercise your gift giving skills and hook up your friend with that new Draw My Thing pen or Balloono hat they sorely need. Because, you know, you’re the one with the better sense of style.
When anyone has an awesome idea on OMGPOP, they post it in our GetSatisfaction Feedback section.
What’s cool is that everyone gets to vote on the ideas they like, and over here at OMGPOP headquarters, we get to see what the most popular stuff is and we consider doing it if we think its cool too. And then the Balloono monkeys get angry because someone wants to put them in a pink dress and give them fairy wings. (It happens.)
Anyway, check out the feedback section and vote up the ideas you like, or post your own.
Here are a few ideas you might want to check out and vote on:
OMGPOP has Achievements you can earn! An Achievement is a permanent award you win for reaching a certain goal. It proudly appears on the Achievement tab of your profile for everyone to see. You also get XP and Coins for each one you earn.
You’ll find them right now in:
Blockles
Hover Kart Battle
Hover Kart
Hit Machine
You can find the Achievements available under the Achievement tab on the main page for each of the above games, with more for our other games coming too. Yep, including Balloono!
The achievements range from simple like hosting a full game in Blockles, to challenging like hitting 1,000,000 notes in Hit Machine, to wacky like attacking a Ninja driver while using a Pirate driver in Hover Kart Battle.
So, do you have more achievements than your best friends on OMGPOP?
