OMGPOP Summer Internships

We’re now accepting applications for summer interns!

This is ONLY in NYC. Interns will hang out with the rest of the OMGPOP crew, including Charles!

If you’re a smart student who loves OMGPOP and is looking to get some great experience (and a really nice addition to your resume) this is your chance to be part of the OMGPOP team for the summer. We only have a few spots open.

Interns will help with game testing, research, marketing, helping the community, keeping Panda from eating all the donuts, and other things to make OMGPOP even better.

We’re located in NYC, in the soho district, so you should be nearby!

Want in? Send an email to feedback@omgpop.com with the subject INTERNSHIP. Be awesome and include the following details:

- Your age.
- What area you live in.
- What school you go to.
- Name one thing you are awesome at.
- Briefly, why you want to be an intern at OMGPOP.
- and of course, your OMGPOP name!

If you have a resume, you can send that too.

Thanks and good luck!


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Team Green vs Team Toxic

Earth Day is around the corner, and it’s time to pick which side you’re on!

Wear the Team Green frame if you care about the environment or wear the Team Toxicframe if you prefer a more hands off approach to taking care of the planet.

We’ll be tallying the number of folks who buy the frames and we’ll announce the winning team after Earth Day!


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Recruit Your Friends For Rewards

We’ve rolled out a way for you to get rewarded for the new friends you invite to OMGOPOP! You can get started here: http://www.omgpop.com/#/me/recruits

Check out the video for an introduction.



Prefer to read? All 3 of you can check out the details below.

Invite new people to OMGPOP, and get rewarded for it!

When 10 of them reach level 10, STAR is yours forever.

You even get other bonuses along the way. Getting just ONE friend to level 2 will get you 5,000 coins.

Do it here! http://www.omgpop.com/#/me/recruits

So invite your friends and keep after them so they reach level 10! You can keep track of your friends progress on the recruits page.

Are you already STAR? If so, invite 10 of your friends, get them all to level 10… and GOLD STAR is yours. It’s like STAR, but GOLD. Nice.

P.S. SERIOUSLY, do not cheat or make fake accounts to do this. Using fake emails, proxies, doing it from your grandmas house… none of that will work. Everytime we have to ban someone for this a puppy goes blind. THINK OF THE PUPPIES.



F.A.Q.

Q: I already invited a ton of friends! Do they count?

A: Thanks for inviting your friends, you rock for that! But only new people who have never signed up for OMGPOP before count towards your 10.

Q: LOL. I’m just going to make 10 new accounts and level them all up to 10!

A: That’s a great idea… if you want to get all your accounts banned. We spent a lot of time on our cheater detection for this, so please don’t try, it’ll just get your accounts removed. Same goes for anyone trying to level up fast using cheats. Again, YOU WILL GET BANNED. PUPPIES WILL GO BLIND.

Q: How do I invite people?

A: On the recruit page, you can invite your friends using your own referral link, Facebook, or Email. Also, you’ll get credit for anyone new who registers after clicking your game invite. So if you tweet your games or post them to facebook, and they join and sign up, they count!

Q: How do I get GOLD STAR?

A: Invite 10 of your friends, get them all to level 10 AND either get yourself to level 100 or just buy a coin Pack with STAR. Doing 10 to 10 and getting STAR another way gets you GOLD STAR forever.

Q: I don’t have 10 new friends to invite! How am I supposed to do this?

A: Put your invite link EVERYWHERE. On your twitter page, in your AIM away message, as your email footer. Invite folks to your game using an invite link. Anyone who joins your game and signs up counts! After they join, invite them to play with you every day! Soon, they’ll even get more XP when they play WITH YOU.

Q: OMG, none of these questions answers my question!

A: No problem. Ask it on our feedback section, click on the black tab to the left!


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Luck of the Irish winners!


We’ve been picking winners throughout the past 2 days for our Luck of the Irish contest. We randomly picked folks who were wearing an eligible green colored frame!

Here are the winners, congratulations and enjoy your 20,000 coins each.

AnnicaAngel
FN l NAYR
mariesoullier
Prince TL
BJ23
cynthcyn
brandonsb
YupYesYeah
Katt
Mister_K


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Balloono Boys vs Girls - Conclusion!

It was a fierce five days to see which group would come out on top with the most Balloono golds, and the guys got close in medals on Saturday, but the girls came out victorious.

Ladies, check your inbox for your reward. As long as your settings were set to female and you logged in during the event, you should receive it!

Gentlemen, we need to practice. We can’t lose like this again!

P.S. If you have awesome Balloono tips, send them to panda@omgpop.com so I can send it to just the guys for next time. Sorry ladies.


Update! Here are some tips for guys from iRule2012:

1: Practice, practice, practice
2: Don’t go too too fast
3: Don’t get hi by falling bricks
4: Wear night-vision goggles
5: Equip a pink outfit


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OMGPOP’s Haiti Donation

Earlier we called upon the OMGPOP community to do what they could to help the relief efforts in Haiti and all of you answered!

For every Support Haiti frame you guys purchased with coins in our shop, we donated the equivalent in real money to Doctors Without Borders. That’s a total of $3,181.50 to helping the ongoing relief efforts in Haiti.

So be proud, OMGPOP citizen, we’ve done a great thing!

Be sure to comment below if you were one of the folks who snagged a Support Haiti frame.


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Balloono Boys vs Girls Update #2 

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.


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Balloono Boys vs Girls Update #1

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!


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Balloono Boys vs Girls Week!

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.


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Rename Some Hover Karts!

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!


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Embed OMGPOP games anywhere!

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


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Get OMGPOP in your school paper for rewards!

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!


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Free OMGPOP stickers for a limited time!

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.


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Play Super Girl on Hit Machine and win an iPod!

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!


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Help support Haiti by getting this frame on OMGPOP

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.


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