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Zynga's first game, Texas Hold 'Em Poker, now known as Zynga Poker, was released on Facebook in July 2007. It was the first game Facebook introduced on its social networking platform. [27] Zynga became the Facebook app developer with the most monthly active users in April 2009, with 40 million people playing their games that month. [28]
In 2011, Granner came out of retirement and joined the newly formed Jersey Jack Pinball, where he served as the composer and audio director for their first pinball game, The Wizard of Oz. [3] In April 2012, Granner began audio work with Spooky Cool Labs, a Chicago-based startup company developing social games for Facebook and mobile platforms.
The Wizard of Oz is a side-scrolling platformer that mixes action, adventure, and puzzle video game styles. [2] [3] [4] It consists of four worlds, each having levels that contain warp zones, mazes, secret areas, and puzzles. [2] It includes many of the settings from the 1990 Wizard of Oz animated series by DIC Entertainment. [5]
The Wizard of Oz was positively received by the press. II Computing said that "a good parser makes it easy to have believable dialogues" with the characters, and observed, "The on-screen illustrations are not flashy. They utilize the Apple's graphics well, but in a way that appears more like a children's storybook than an epic cartoon novel.
The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road, known in Japan as Riz-Zoawd, is a role-playing video game developed by Japanese developer Media.Vision for the Nintendo DS. The game is an adaptation of L. Frank Baum 's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , using its characters, locations and plot.
In the 1939 adaption of The Wizard of Oz, the Guardian of the Gates appears as the "Gatekeeper" portrayed by Frank Morgan (who also portrays Professor Marvelous, the Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City Coachman, and the Guard). When Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion reach the Emerald City, they ring on the bell which alerted the ...
The game is part of the larger Zynga Casino franchise, which was revealed in an October 2011 event called “Unleashed.” It was developed by Spooky Cool Labs, which Zynga acquired in June 2013, for the purpose of creating social casino games. In February 2014, Hit it Rich was the most downloaded free game on the iPad's "casino" category. [1]