FunOrb
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FunOrb was a casual gaming site created by Jagex. Launched on 27 February 2008, and closed on 7 August 2018, it was the company's first major release after their successful MMORPG, RuneScape. All of the games were programmed in Java.
Type of site | Internet games |
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Available in | English, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese |
Owner | Jagex |
Created by | Jagex |
URL | www |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional (compulsory for multi-player games) |
Launched | 27 February 2008; 16 years ago (2008-02-27) |
Current status | Closed on 7 August 2018; 5 years ago (2018-08-07) |
Jagex had announced that this site was targeted towards the "hard casual", "deep casual" or "time-pressured" gamer market and that it intended to expand into the mobile phone games market.[1][2][3] On 3 December 2009, Jagex released its first mobile phone game, Bouncedown, for the iPhone and iPod Touch,[4] followed by StarCannon on 15 April 2010,[5] Miner Disturbance on 8 June 2010,[6] and Undercroft on 16 September 2010.[7]