Gaming has been developing for over a half of the century now. They have been finding the proper things to be developed and they have taken advantage of what they were offered. If at first the gaming industry was concentrated on war, on things that were bad, on violence, action than with time, it soon come to be replaced with all kind of themes. Themes that one could easily find in one’s everyday life and that have easily found an important place in this industry.


Therefore, the gaming industry has taken into a better view and begun to be a very well regarded industry. Apart from teaching teenagers what violence is, and from making them suffer all kind of psychic disorders, games were regarded as teaching, as spending quality time with your child and as well as socializing thing.

Anyhow, some say that social gaming have more than a half of century old. They do not refer just at the gaming played on the computer devices, but at the games that were played ever since the time of the Ancient Egyptians. This means that they have about 5000 years old.

What differentiates a social gaming from a normal game? First of all the social games is a game that mainly refers to the fact that it is played with another person. Therefore, players are supposed to take turns in playing the game. This is why, one calls this characteristic “turn based”. Another characteristic that social games have is that they are games in which one is aware of the others actions. Social gaming is for those that are average users, but not for those that intend to play twenty four hours a day, on that game. The game has to be multiplayer, in order that it is a social one. As this is what provides it with this characteristic. What affects the social gaming is as well the platform the game is being played on. It ahs to be based on a social platform, in a social context.

There are some main companies that have created and are still creating social games. these companies are Zynga, SGM, Kongregate, Gaia, PLayFish and even Serious Business. they all believe that the social gaming that is currently taking advantage, is reborn, going back to its Lollaps, another social gaming company, believe that it is high time that games turn social again.

Social gaming has a lot of possibilities of developing nowadays that is due to the online capacity. This is a global phenomenon that will take over the entire part of a country, its policy, economics, industry etc; the social gaming companies, like the ones, above mentioned, will pay very much attention to what is needed and what industry is at its peak, and they will have their subject of the game; the mobile devices will as well make it possible that the social gaming will evolve more, that is due to the increase mobile adoption and as well the internet wireless that has provided to other countries to search my needs on the internet. The Social gaming term is a mix of marketing by barely its name. They will even get more sociable with time, as they will vapture sites such as FaceBook Connect.

What the gaming industry has offered to our lives no other such industry ever did. It is useless to say that this has not provided us with a lot of possibilities and has as well granted us the availability to make new acquaintances and even new friends.  One can as well contribute to this development and try to make the best out of every social game and possibility of it.s