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My colleague Simon Lumb (product manager for Games Grid) and I recently gave a presentation at the discussing the future of and online and how we used the Games Grid platform and the Connected Friends feature to support the new CÖ÷²¥´óÐã TV series called .

Connected Friends is the name given to a feature on the CÖ÷²¥´óÐã site that allows users to play games against their real world friends. The user needs to register on the CÖ÷²¥´óÐã site and once they have been allocated a display name by our system they can connect to and play games against their friends via the .

You can find out more about connected friends and The Dumping Ground TV show in the video below.

You can also find out more about Connected Friends in the presentation from our session which you can find by following . In this we have outlined the challenges we face including an outline of our Multi-player games service and how Games Grid, our high score and rewards platform, is helping us develop reusable games features that drive our audience to return to unlock game rewards and share their scores.

Please take a look at the presentation and the video and let me know what you think by leaving a comment below.

Patrick Healy is head of product for Children’s.

Delegates reaction to the CÖ÷²¥´óÐã & CBeebies and the evolution of games session:

: Loved the user sign in demo at #bbconline

: HTML5 & Unity are amongst the gamedev skills CÖ÷²¥´óÐã are looking for from indies. Not quite our experience, but reassuring to hear #bbconline

: Awesome to see CÖ÷²¥´óÐã doing phased launches and data driven game design. #bbconline

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