OMGPop

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OMGPop
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Final logo
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Homepage
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The homepage as of January 2013
Slogan Play games. Meet people. Hang out.
Commercial? Yes
Type of site
 Social networking service, online games, chat rooms
Registration Free
Available in English
Owner Zynga Inc.
Editor Charles Forman
Dan Porter
Launched Late 2006
Alexa rank
 731,912 (July 2014)[1]
Current status Defunct

OMGPop, stylized as OMGPOP and formerly known as i'minlikewithyou or iilwy, was a defunct game studio by Zynga Inc., and casual online multiplayer gaming website built entirely in Adobe Flash.[2] OMGPop stated on its homepage that it is "a place to hang out, play free online multiplayer games, and make friends."

History

OMGPop was based in SoHo, in New York City. The company received seed funding from Y Combinator during its early days as a startup.[3]

The website was listed on Time magazine's 50 Best Websites of 2009.[4]

On 21 March 2012, Zynga announced that it will acquire OMGPop for $180 million, saying "It is our mission to provide consumers with fun, free games. We believe OMGPop will help us fulfill our promise."[5][6]

Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga, announced in an official blog post on 3 June 2013 that the company would be laying off 18% of its employees in order to restructure the company and cut back on finances.[7] Many former OMGPop employees were laid off, and the New York office was one of the three that Zynga shut down.[citation needed] While this had been reported as the closure of OMGPop, the omgpop.com website remained active.[8][9] However, in a statement issued by parent company Zynga in July 2013, it was announced that the site would close on 30 September 2013,[10] with four games – Cupcake Corner, Gem Rush, Pool World Champ and Snoops – being phased out on 29 August 2013.[11] [10][11]

Games

OMGPop's game selection included standard board, card, and sports games, clones of more well known video games, and special versions of licensed games such as Atari's Missile Command.[12]

OMGPop's most popular game was their Pictionary-like game entitled Draw My Thing.[13] On 16 March 2012 it was reported that it was the most played game on Facebook registering 10.8 million daily active users, compared to Zynga's Words with Friends with 8.6 million daily active users.[14]

On 4 April 2012 OMGPop reported that their hit game Draw Something had surpassed over 50 million downloads and that since the game's launch, over 6 billion drawings had been shared between friends.[15]

Their games included 3 different categories GAMES,MOBILE GAMES, and STAR. The final List of games on OMGPop included 48 games.

List of games

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  • 9 Ball Pool
  • Aim Really Good
  • Aim For The Nuts
  • Balloono
  • Balloono Classic
  • Ballracer
  • Blockles
  • Booya!
  • Checkers
  • Coin Party
  • Cupcake Corner
  • Defuse
  • Dinglepop
  • Draw My Thing
  • Draw Something
  • Fireworks
  • Fleet Fighter
  • Fourplay
  • Gemmers
  • Hamster Battle
  • HamsterJet
  • Hangman
  • Hit Machine
  • Hover Kart Battle
  • Hover Kart Racing
  • Hover Kart Party
  • Jigsawce
  • Letterblox
  • Lottery
  • Omgfife
  • Poll Positions Lite
  • Pool
  • Puppy World
  • Putt My Penguin
  • Quiz World
  • Rock Paper Scissors
  • Sky Pigs
  • Solitaire
  • Spin The Bottle
  • Swapples
  • Tonk
  • Tracism
  • Trivia
  • Typow!
  • Typow Remix
  • Pets
  • Unscramble

References

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  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 http://www.zyngaplayersupport.com/article/all/Announcement-OMGPOPcom-Closure-en_US-1375113624757
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 http://www.zyngaplayersupport.com/article/all/Announcement-OMGPOPcom-Game-Closures-en_US-1375114847142
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