SeventhSide Games has just launched its first social game “Beebble”, a city builder (a virtual town simulator) geo-localized at a junction between Farmville, Sim City and Foursquare, offering players the possibility to allow their virtual environment to interact with their real world location.

The game’s story was inspired by one of Albert Einstein’s theory, stating that the survival of humanity rests on the bees’ destiny: “If bees disappear from the planet, Man will only have four years to live.”

To save humanity the Professor Beebblestein, a crazy scientist, created a new genetically modified species of bees names the Beebbles, capable of communicating with humans. During the professor’s experiments, an explosion occurred, scattering the Beebbles contained in his incubator to all four corners of the world.

By downloading the free game from App Store, the players will be asked to explore real locations around them to uncover the Beebbles who may have found themselves there after the blast. As well as enticing players to discover new areas of their real world, the game pushes them to create communities for these bees by placing towns within the Beebble universe but positioned in the real world.

These towns will then be developed by the players, as well as any new friends they may make within the game.

Thus, by saving the Beebbles, will humanity be saved as well?

After a Beta version with SFR in July 2011 and a launch the on the French App Store, Beebble has just made its first TV appearance on StarPlayer, a show dedicated to video games, on the TV channel Direct Star. It has now been released worldwide.

For our technophile friends, the game has the particularity to be entirely developed using HTML5. This allows it to be natively compatible with the width and breadth of web and mobile interfaces.

Recent and expected improvements:

SeventhSide Games have just finalized the rework of their tutorial. It is now a lot simpler, dynamic and engaging!

They are also expecting shortly an important up date which will significantly improve the game’s ergonomics (visual effects, transitions, animation fluidity…) as well as working on the reinforcement of the interactions between players. Another upcoming change, they will be adding very shortly specific actions for certain elements and types of players.

The game is in essence “alive”, new elements will appear in the game every week. Stay tuned!