press kit for reviewers

Explaining the game

Short presentation. In Adslife you start your one-man advertising agency, hunt for customers on the web and duel with other agencies. You get to live the life of a talented and cursed visionary creative, immersed in the atmosphere of the 70’s gray metropolitan life – a life filled by temptations.


Presentation. Adslife is a multi-faceted game that combines a Role Playing Game (you are the founder and only employee of an advertising agency), with content creation (you really create the ads), linked to the real web “out there” (where you pick the customers), a point-and-click adventure (you live the life of the visionary creative that you are impersonating) and a social aspect: you compete with other players for winning bids, and competing bids are judged by still other players.

Adslife can also be classified as a sim-like management or resource management game, given that you are actually managing an advertising agency.

What is quite new of this game is that it mixes different planes: the real web “out there”, where you find customers, the game world where you have to deal with the game characters, and the competition and judgment from other players, competing agencies and referees.


Help in writing a review. If you proceed in this page you find support material (screenshots, logos, contact data).
Being a browser game played in turns with pauses in between, it may take some time to complete a review.
Check other reviews: here.
Here is a blog post with a list of the game parts that one can try: Some tips for Adslife reviewers.
Adslife is presented in depth in this blog post: Creating a new kind of social browser game: Adslife


What's the news? Creating ads for real websites as part of an online game and sharing these online is a new reading of "social game".

Playing the game

Playing Adslife is quite simple. It is a purely HTML5 game that can be played in any sufficiently updated browser (Firefox 3/4/5+, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer 9+, Safari for iPad). You need to buy a code to play, it costs 8.99$ (about 6 Euro).

Free codes for reviewers. If you are a journalist and intend to review Adslife, we'll provide you a free code. Apply by writing to info@gamamoto.com.

Game and producer logos

Game logos: Download Adslife logo .jpg - Download Adslife icon .png

   

Producer logos: Download Gamamoto logo .png - Download Gamamoto icon .png

   

Download Adslife and Gamamoto Media Art (.zip with multiple versions including .png and .eps)

Game screenshots

Game screenshots: Download Adslife screenshots .zip

Producing Adslife

Adslife is the first game of the Gamamoto initiative. Gamamoto is a project for creating browser based (HTML) indie games, created and maintained by Open Lab, a small software house from Florence, Italy.
We repeat it: this game is produced by a small, small and self-funded software house with very limited means; the nice design does not mean an AAA-produced game!

More information

Game screenshots and videos. Quotes.
The team: see here to learn more about who we are (blogs, Twitter streams, initiatives).
The project: Gamamoto on games, stories, browsers.
While building Adslife we released an open source (MIT license) JavaScript game-story engine: Storymoto.
The company: Open Lab.

Talk with us

If you are interested in writing a review of Adslife or in doing an interview on ideas behind it, the design process, its production and technology, please feel free to get in contact. To send us questions, fix a time for a talk on Skype or by phone write us at info@gamamoto.com. The contact for bloggers and journalists is:
Pietro Polsinelli
ppolsinelli@open-lab.com

All material from this page may be freely used, adapted and republished for reviewing.