Ravenwood Fair scares visitors even more with Halloween frights

Ravenwood Fair hasn't been out for a week yet, and already it's one of the top growing Facebook games. This slightly-creepy themed game with a terrifying forest already has the scary thing going for it, so Halloween is a perfect fit for the game. Today, several new Halloween items have reached the Ye Olde Shoppe in Ravenwood Fair, and we have everything you need to know about the new items.

First, the most important new item is the Pumpkin Screamer game. Games are the most important part of Ravenwood Fair, because they increase your fun and bring visitors to your fair. The Pumpkin Screamer game costs 89 Facebook Credits, but is the best game yet. It gives you 250 uses. a 12 coin profit, and a whopping +900 fun. It's also neat, because it's like a pumpkin on a stick and it will only be around for Halloween.

Next, the decorations! There are several new decorations that will help transform your fair until a spooky one. The Jack-O-Lantern will cost you 19 Facebook Credits, and the Mausoleum will cost you 29, but you can get a Tombstone for only 1100 coins (or receive it from friends as a gift. That's not too bad. There are also a few buildings such as the Chocolate Skull Cart, the Great Pumpkin House, and the Haunted House. The Chocolate Skull Cart requires 2 Sugar Skulls, 2 Wax Candles, 2 Candy Corn and 2 Pumpkins, or 7 Facebook Credits to complete.
There are also a few Halloween quests in the game, however we're not sure exactly how many as we're still making our way through them. The first quests are "Think of the Kids!" which wants you to collect 20 Candy Corns from friends, and "Nightmare on Pine Street" that wants you to build 4 Thunderboxes right next to each other to look like Elm Street from the Freddy movies. If you know of other quests, feel free to leave them in the comments. :)

Ravenwood Fair creator Lolapps joins 6waves to combat big leaguers

In another case of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," social game developer Lolapps has merged with publisher 6waves. While financial details were not disclosed, TechCrunch reports that the marriage of the Ravenwood Fair creator and the Hong Kong-based publisher makes for a collective 39 million monthly players worldwide. The company will be re-branded as 6waves Lolapps, though each company will continue to act independently.

6 waves CEO Rex Ng will lead the newly formed company, and Lolapps CEO Arjun Sethi will report to him. After leading the creation of the 25 million-strong Ravenwood Fair, veteran designer John Romero left the company to create his own studio, Loot Drop. This move will likely help Lolapps' future games reach a wider audience, which now will use the recently-acquired Fliso engine for creating Flash games that run faster.

And if you count the two companies' collectively player base, the duo is larger than Diamond Dash creator Wooga, which enjoys just under 35 million monthly players, according to AppData. Now that EA has acquired PopCap, and Zynga has bought, well, everyone else almost, the big players in the social game space are starting to emerge. The rest of this year will show whether 6waves Lolapps can hang in the Facebook game major leagues.

Do you think Lolapps, with the help of 6waves, can compete with the likes of EA and Zynga in the future? Are you still a fan of Ravenwood Fair, and what do you hope to see come from the game next? Sound off in the comments. Add Comment