Save the Planet

Dan — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:30:19 +0000

Each of us should do at least one thing to save the planet, like recycling or buying a Prius. When I found out I could do something for the planet just by playing Facebook Games, I was ecstatic. Not only I can do something good for the planet, I also don’t have to get off my ass. Therefore, I have filed this review under both Causes and Games categories because the Save the Planet application manages to combine the two. Coolapps created the Save the Planet application in order to incentivize donations to various charities. Save the Plant has a virtual currency called Lunch Money or L$. You earn Lunch Money by playing the various flash games offered. This money can then be donated to the various causes offers available such as feed the hungry, save the rainforest or donate water. For example; a grain of rice costs L$878, so if you donate say a L$1,000,000 worth of Lunch Money you actually donate 1152 grains of rice. Coolapps tallies up all the donations at the end of the month and writes a check to all the various charities. It’s a neat concept and is similar to the FreeRice program from the UN. As for the games (there are about 30 of them) are divided into various categories such Arcade, Card, Word and Strategy. The games are produced by third parties and are integrated into the application so that scores translate into earned L$. The quality of the games is pretty high since as I have mentioned they are developed by third parties and are probably licensed out to coolapps for use in this application. Of course you can also earn additional L$ by inviting your friends or challenging them in one of the available flash games.

The application has been gaining momentum on facebook as of late and has about 400k monthly active users. I expect its popularity to grow in the future; after all…it is for a good cause.

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Save the Planet