Chapter 12. Social Community

Social networking has been a hot trend on the Internet recently. People want to know what their friends are doing on Internet now and their behaviors will influence their friends. For example, when several friends are doing one thing in the social network, their friends will have a higher chance to follow their behaviors. When they are playing one social networking game, the chances of their friends joining the same game becomes high.

We can enhance our virtual world by adding social network community. We will use the social networking features from existing social network services and use these services to help spread the virtual worlds to potential players.

In this chapter, we are going to integrate several key features ...

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