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With the launch of AlbinoPhant only days away, we are starting to get in the artwork for the white elephant gift exchange on Facebook.

This application is a bit more complex than most of the simple social games that are found in Facebook. AlbinoPhant parties involve the sharing of real gifts in a long-term party and therefore integrate eCommerce shopping and secure payment systems into the process.

We want players to realize that after they purchase a gift in one of the AlbinoPhant markets, they wait while others do the same thing. So we felt that a cute and artistic message might make players feel at ease while they wait for the party to begin.

We hired a talented designer from Tuscon, Arizona by the name of Jay Pierstorff. He has created several creative and cleaver images to help players understand the steps in the game play process.

So when a player has used PayPal to purchase their selected gift for the party, and after they virtually wrapped it in some fancy or interesting box, the Armed-Elephant will store it safely in the AlbinoPhant Palace.
The virtual gift box and the image of the gift will be used on the gameplay page during the party. The real gift will actually remain in the control of Amazon, until we know who gets the gift after all the stealing and swapping are finished in the party.

The AlbinoPhant management system will see that all the gifts are sorted out and that all the players get the correct gifts delivered after the game ends.

At the end of the party another fun artistic message will be displayed to remind players that they should be looking for a shipping company to show up with the gift that they won in the party.

We know that family and friends will find AlbinoPhant a fun and easy way to connect and share real gifts together this holiday season.. These humorous images of elephants should assist in making the experience all the more fun.

Your are going to love this party!!!

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King Thibaw
The Royal Thibaw, Golden-footed Lord of the White Elephant, Master of a Thousand Gold Umbrellas, Owner of the Royal Peacocks, Lord of the Sea and of the World, Whose face is like the Sun.

There are two types of party formats:  Conversational and Participatory

Parties that encourage participation include organized activities, and are much more complex than those designed just for visiting or networking.

Like a real party, the AlbinoPhant online white elephant party is a deeper experience than most online social interactions. In fact, it could be said that AlbinoPhant is one of the most complex and deepest applications on the Facebook platform.

AlbinoPhant is a real gift exchange party, just like the millions of gift swaps that are played in family rooms, community centers and church basements, all across the country.

To make a mimic of a real party experience, the developers had to mimic the gift shopping experience,  allow for virtual gift wrapping and then prepare a party room for the gift swap to unfold.

Beyond this, was the challenge of the gift revealing process, building in the opportunity to steal gifts, along with a system that tracks who got what gift; all in the craziness of a white elephant gift exchange.

The development team created a measuring system called the Banterithm, to tally the various engagement activities of the participants, so that awards could be presented.

Then there are gift ranking systems and gift voting programs to recognize superior shopping skills.

They have added several viral opportunities to share the game action into Facebook  walls and to push updates of the party onto other social networks.

Even the invitation management is unique, because a gift party can not start until the gifts are purchased and participants have joined the party.

At the end of the event there are the awards to present, and the final notifications of the outcome of the gift swap.

Finally, all those real gifts need to be actually purchased and then shipped to hundreds of thousands of doors.

This complexity required that the development team mash-up eCommerce applications, Facebook applications and payment systems to allow party invitees to shop for a gift, wrap it for the party, use it in the exchange and then get the  gift delivered to their door.

For this to work, a team from Facebookster, Gyrofly and Intentional Internet combined to develop the interfaces between online merchants and Facebook’s social operating system.

The online white elephant party might be complex, but just like traditional gift swap parties, AlbinoPhant combines conversation and participation to create a memorable experience that connects families and friends.

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