OMGPop, stylized as OMGPOP and formerly known as i'minlikewithyou or iilwy, was an independent flash game studio. In 2013, it was purchased by Zynga Inc.[1]
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Homepage  The homepage as of January 2013[update] | |
Type of site | Social networking service, online games, chat rooms |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Zynga Inc. |
| Founder(s) | Charles Forman |
| CEO | Dan Porter |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Free |
| Launched | Late 2006 |
| Current status | inactive as of 30 September 2013 |
History
editOMGPop was based in SoHo, in New York City. The company received seed funding from Y Combinator during its early days as a startup.[2]
The website was listed on Time magazine's 50 Best Websites of 2009.[3]
On 21 March 2012, Zynga announced that it would 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."[4][5]
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.[6] 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.[7][8] However, in a statement issued by parent company Zynga in July 2013, it was announced that the site would close on 30 September 2013,[9] with four games – Cupcake Corner, Gem Rush, Pool World Champ and Snoops – being phased out on 29 August 2013.[10][9]
Around 2013, Zynga suffered a large data breach exposing over 7 million email addresses and plain text passwords for OMGPop which were later leaked in 2019.[11] The breach was first reported to The Hacker News in September of 2019 by Pakistani hacker "Gnosticplayers" claiming to have access to 218 million accounts across the Zynga portfolio.[12] Although the breach was later confirmed by Zynga, the company did not comment on the number of accounts and may have failed to disclose the breach to users.[13]
Games
editOMGPop's game selection included standard board, card, and sports video games, clones of more well known video games, and special versions of licensed games such as Atari's Missile Command.[14]
OMGPop's most popular game was their Pictionary-like game entitled Draw Something.[15] 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.[16][17]
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.[18]
List of games
edit- 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
edit- ^ Hollister, Sean (3 June 2013). "'Draw Something' studio OMGPOP reportedly shuttered amid Zynga layoffs". The Verge. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Cutler, Kim-Mai (21 March 2012). "OMGPOP's Sale to Zynga is One of Y Combinator's Biggest Exits to Date". TechCrunch. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
- ^ "50 Best Websites 2009". Time. Archived from the original on 27 August 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
- ^ Cutler, Kim-Mai (21 March 2012). "Done Deal: Zynga Gets "Draw Something" Phenom bBy Acquiring OMGPOP". TechCrunch. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
- ^ Chen, Brian X.; Wortham, Jenna (25 March 2012). "Draw Something Changes the Game Quickly for Omgpop". The New York Times.
- ^ Pincus, Mark (3 June 2013). "CEO Update". Zynga. Archived from the original on 3 June 2013.
- ^ Kumparak, Greg (4 June 2013). "Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Takahashi, Dean (3 June 2013). "Zynga may be closing Omgpop game studio that it bought for $180M". VentureBeat. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ a b "Zynga Support". Archived from the original on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ^ "Zynga Support". Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ^ "Have I Been Pwned: Pwned websites". haveibeenpwned.com. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ "Exclusive — Hacker Steals Over 218 Million Zynga 'Words with Friends' Gamers Data". The Hacker News. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ IKEDA, SCOTT (30 December 2019). "Password Breach of Game Developer Zynga Compromises 170 Million Accounts". CPO Magazine.
- ^ "Atari Now Offering Free Classic Arcade Games Online". Arcade-Junkies. 24 November 2009. Archived from the original on 5 May 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
- ^ Zakarin, Jordan (21 March 2012). "Zynga Buying OMGPOP, Draw Something Creator, For Reported $200 Million". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
- ^ Cutler, Kai-Mai (16 March 2012). "Zynga No Longer Has The Biggest Game on Facebook By Daily Users. OMGPOP Does". TechCrunch. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
- ^ "OMGpop". [TechnoApt]. 16 March 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
- ^ Biggs, John (4 April 2012). "OMGPOP's Draw Something Surpasses 50 Million Downloads". TechCrunch. Retrieved 28 January 2013.