Spotted GameMaki ‘Claim Me!’ stickers while on the go?

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Well, you aren’t hallucinating!

If you’re here because you happened to chance upon one of our stickers left randomly around town, here’s a big hello to you. And thanks for being so awesome.

We’ve been leaving our trademark ‘Claim Me!’ stickers in and around town during the past couple of months. Unsure as we are about the eventual fate of these stickers, we hope they’ll meet loving owners who will love them (and GameMaki) as much as we do.

Paste ‘em on your laptops, notebooks or basically anything with a flat surface to share the love!

Claim Me at the bowling alley.
Claimed your challenge at the bowling alley yet?

Claim Me at the mall.
Out shopping and spotted a GameMaki sticker? Well, you’re probably already doing something that’s a challenge on GameMaki. Claim your points now!

Curious as to where our stickers have been dwelling? Here’s a (not-so-comprehensive) list.

Singapore
The Soup Spoon at Raffles City (Basement 1)
Bowling Alley at Marina Square (Level 3)
Cotton On at Suntec City (Level 1)
KissJane at City Link Mall (Basement)
Forever21 at Vivocity (Level 1)

Malaysia
Starbucks at First World Hotel, Genting Highlands (Lobby level)
The Bakery at Genting Hotel, Genting Highlands (Lobby level)
Kenny Roger’s Roasters at First World Plaza, Genting Highlands (Level 2)
Q-Center at First World Plaza, Genting Highlands (Level 2B)
Genting Bowl at First World Plaza, Genting Highlands (Level 2B)

Chanced upon our stickers? Leave a comment to say hi, and do tell us where you found yours!

We’ve dished out some new goodies, check it out!

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Because we always seek to make life more exciting and awesome, we’ve dished out a bumper crop of new features for you to sink your teeth into!

The purpose of GameMaki lies in suggesting exciting things to do or places to go. But why just stop there? The features we’ve added mostly revolve around ramping up the social element of GameMaki, among other things.

We’ve quietly introduced Makis a few weeks back. Makis are large, juicy rice rolls filled with yummy delicacies. In GameMaki, Makis allow you to group related challenges together, or to just create your own collection of challenges for your friends. Compete with others by claiming challenges in the Maki to earn points and inch your way up the Maki leaderboard.

The photo upload function for claims has also made an appearance in the past couple of weeks. Uploading a photo when claiming a challenge gives you more points, and also provides visual proof that you’ve actually done a challenge. Browsing photos uploaded with other people’s claims was great fun too. We love this feature and we hope you love it as much as we do!

What else is new in GameMaki this round?

Recurring Challenges
Some suggestions just cannot be claimed once. After all, we don’t just do a particular activity just once, don’t we? Live a little, do it more than once! Recurring challenges are challenges that you can claim over and over again, every 24 hours. Earn more points each time round, and this also means more opportunities to share your photos too.

Recurring challenges on GameMaki.
A recurring challenge will be indicated as above.

Invitations
Wowee, now you can share the goodness of GameMaki with your friends! Merely sharing challenges on Facebook or Twitter is so passe. Pull them in with you, because GameMaki is even more awesome with your friends around! We have nicely integrated with Facebook so you may now easily send GameMaki invites to your friends. Spotted a challenge or a Maki which reminded you of a particular friend? Directly challenge that person too. Let’s get social, social, social.

Challenge a friend from your Facebook account!
Challenge a friend from your Facebook account.

More Options for your Maki
We’ve heard your call. The hollers of dissent when our soccer-freak founder and CEO Keith Ng decided to flood the list of latest challenges with English Premier League-related stuff while creating his EPL Maki. So, you can now hide challenges in your Maki from the public challenges list! On top of that, you now have the option to create exclusive invitation-only Makis just for your friends. Sweet.

All that, and loads of usability fixes.

The GameMaki team would like to take this opportunity to thank all who have participated in our usability testing sessions conducted in recent weeks.

Our mobile webapp has also been brought up-to-date with the web application’s latest features (although you can’t create a Maki on mobile), so hop on down to http://m.gamemaki.com on your mobile phone today!

Any bugs, ideas or just want to tell us something? Holler at us at our community support page!

See us on TV this Sunday!

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EDIT: Just received news that our feature has been postponed to next Sunday (10th April 2011).

GameMaki will be featured on the TV news this Sunday (3rd April 2011) in Singapore. It will be telecast at 10pm on Channel 8, or 11pm on Channel U. The segment will be about three minutes long. Do check us out then!

It was an exhausting day of filming for all of us yesterday. The media crew arrived bright and early in the morning. As the filming crew went around setting things up, news presenter Tung Soo Hua gave us a run-down on what to expect and how the filming will proceed. On the other hand, our co-founder and CEO Keith had worries of his own – perfecting his Mandarin. The dude was practically in a state of panic over how to describe GameMaki and the social gaming scene in any language other than English.

The filming commenced with an interview with our co-founder and CTO Damon Widjaja. This was then followed with Keith’s attempts at articulating the local social apps development scene in Mandarin. (We must say, he did pretty well! Kudos to him.)

Damon talks about Socialico.
Damon talks about Socialico, the company behind GameMaki.

Keith shares with Soo Hua about the social apps development scene in Singapore.
Keith shares with Soo Hua about the social apps development scene in Singapore.

The duo then proceeded to do a run-through of GameMaki‘s features for the news crew.

Later on, the rest of our humble headquarters was pretty much turned upside down as the filming crew proceeded to grab scenes from almost almost every aspect. Our developer Steve programming furiously on his large monitor screen, our UX girls Brenda and Jesslyn working fervently on concept drawings and web graphics for a page revamp, and the other half of the team attempting a skit to illustrate the workings of our earlier application, FameMark.

The GameMaki team with the filming crew.
The GameMaki team with the filming crew.

It was an overall enjoyable experience. Thanks to Mediacorp for the interview and feature.

So, folks in Singapore – please switch on your tellys this Sunday night to check out what we do. We can’t wait!

One GameMaki to go, please!

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This evening, the master chefs behind GameMaki dished out yet another delicacy, the mobile-friendly web application!

Now, you can have your GameMaki fix anytime, anywhere while you’re on the go. Spotted anything interesting or experienced a sudden flash of inspiration for a great challenge while outdoors? You can now suggest them instantly.

(Note: You have to be on a mobile browser to access the mobile-friendly version.)

Challenge Categories
Browse for challenges to do while you’re out and about.

Our mobile-friendly web application has everything GameMaki has to offer, with even more to come. Now, you can be in the know of the latest challenges suggested by your friends and the world instantly.

Recent Challenges by your Friends
Check out recent challenges by your friends.

Most Popular Challenges
The most popular challenges by the number of claims, at your fingertips.

Suggest and claim challenges while you are on the go. Now, the world has indeed become your playground.

Claim Challenges on the Go
Claim challenges anytime, anywhere.

Should you have any feedback on how we can further improve our standard and mobile web applications, feel free to drop us a shout in our community support forum or in the comments.

Enjoy!

Press Release – GameMaki launches BETA version

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GameMaki’s web application released in BETA, with a mobile application soon to follow.

Today, Socialico launches GameMaki, an application for users to “Suggest and claim challenges with their friends to explore cool stuff.” In GameMaki, users recommend things to do and turn them into fun challenges for their friends to claim. In turn, users claim other challenges to earn points and compete with one another. Challenges can also be grouped into a single game, or ʻmakiʼ, such as a wine game comprising just wine suggestions.

The application adds a game layer atop making and doing recommendations and makes what is usually a verbal exchange fun and engaging.

“We are not a location-centric application,” says Keith, co-founder and CEO of Socialico. “GameMaki focuses on activities, while location is vital but remains a secondary component. For example, I can challenge anyone to run 20km in under an hour and it need not be tagged with a location.”

Keith adds, “Suggestions are an integral part of all our lives. With GameMaki, we want to facilitate quality suggestions that are easy to make and find, and in turn make life more fun and interesting, starting with cool suggestions in SXSW itself.”

GameMaki will be exhibited in the Singapore Pavilion at the SXSW tradeshow on 14-17th March. It is available on the web at http://gamemaki.com. A mobile application is presently in the works.

About Socialico
Socialico is a technology company that develops social applications with game mechanics. The Singapore-based company is co-founded by Keith Ng and Damon Widjaja. Key investors include MySpace founder Brad Greenspan’s Social Slingshot and Dr. Robert Bong, Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of UCSI University.

About SXSW
South by Southwest (SXSW, Inc.) is a company based in Austin, Texas that has held the internationally acclaimed Music and Media Conference & Festival yearly since 1987. The company is dedicated to delivering conferences and festival events for the film, entertainment and interactive media industries.

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