Dictator Wars - Media

Summary

Dictator Wars is a Facebook game with a unique geopolitical theme and innovative social features.

Highlights

* do as Dictators do: develop domestic drug production, arrest bloggers, repress political rivals
* accumulate luxury goods: personal food taster, aircraft carrier, TV station
* play Foreign Affairs with your friends: chained Missions bring players together
* innovative PvP: player versus player Fighting in Dictator Wars is like Poker, with stakes and risk

Assets

- Dictator Wars logo

- Dictator Wars Character Selection screen

- GameLayers Logo

Press Release

2009-09-14 - GameLayers, an online entertainment studio, today announced a new social game Dictator Wars playable through Facebook. Based on stories of tyrants and warlords that surround us in the news, Dictator Wars gives players a chance to run their own country and battle for recognition on a global scale.

Dictator Wars offers a wealth of content spread over 100 levels of Missions. Players can collect and do battle with weapons, staff, properties and luxury goods: atomic weapons, personal chefs, palaces and armored yachts. Players have a large playfield in Dictator Wars, in contrast to the small scale of Mafia games prevalent on Facebook. Dictator Wars is not about mugging and carjacking, but instead about arresting bloggers, acquiring uranium and relocating the national treasury into your home.

In addition, Dictator Wars launches with a unique "Foreign Affairs" system that increases the chances for people to play together online. "We saw tens of millions of gamers playing social games mostly by themselves," said Justin Hall, CEO of GameLayers. "With Foreign Affairs, Dictator Wars connects isolated gamers for a truly social role-playing experience on Facebook."

Dictator Wars is available for free play on Facebook at http://apps.facebook.com/dictatorwars/

About GameLayers

GameLayers is a online game studio. Their first product, The Nethernet, was a massively multiplayer online game in a Firefox toolbar. Dictator Wars is their first game for Facebook. The company is funded by Shasta Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Richard Wolpert and Joi Ito. Their headquarters are in downtown San Francisco. For more information, please visit http://gamelayers.com/

Contact Information
Justin Hall
GameLayers, Inc
888-480-7664

FAQ

How many people are playing?: Dictator Wars has been growing rapidly, you can see stats on the Dictator Wars Facebook app profile page or by looking up Dictator Wars on appdata.com
Is this your first/only game?: GameLayers has been making innovative online games since 2007. Visit our games page to see what else we've been up to.