Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social Games Bar

Re:Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social ... by axod on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @05:48PM (#1280702)

I think it's cool to have a widget that you can embed within your website, just like you embed a youtube video... but it looks like with heyzap, when they play a game, it lightboxes and obscures your website - they may as well have been redirected to heyzap to play it.

Do heyzap do a small game widget that sits within the page?

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Re:Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social ... by immad on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @06:06PM (#1280742)

Yes we do in various sizes:

http://www.heyzap.com/publishers/get_started

The lighbox only happens when the user is in the middle of the game, which we thought was reasonable to avoid them clicking out by mistake and ruining the game. Happy to hear other alternatives.

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Re:Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social ... by axod on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @07:28PM (#1280912)

So as soon as they click "Play", it opens a lightbox and hides the rest of the site. Is there any option to just have the game play within the widget area? I think it'd make for some more seamless integrations into existing sites.

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Re:Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social ... by immad on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @11:25PM (#1281312)

The bigger widget plays within the widget area (the 650px+ widgets).

Game need certain real estate unfortunately.

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Re:Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap (YC W09) Social ... by axod on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @06:10AM (#1281762)

Ah ok, hadn't tried that size. Thanks for clarifying.

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