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You didn’t have to attend the GDC last week in San Francisco to know that social games like Farmville are revolutionizing the gaming industry. But what does this mean for developers who rely upon Facebook as the sole social network platform for their businesses? It means its time to diversify.

In a recent Forbes article Brian Reynolds, chief designer of Zynga, said his company was “platform agnostic,” stating Zynga “just [wants] to be on whatever platforms enable good experiences. We’re also on MySpace, and we’ve done iPhone stuff. It’s all about which platform allows it to be most social.”

Today, Citrusbyte announces tools to help your Facebook game be just a bit more platform agnostic with only a few minor code tweaks.

Commissioned by MySpace, Citrusbyte developed a reference toolkit for porting any Facebook app to the MySpace platform. The document goes through Facebook’s Authentication and RESTful APIs, noting their MySpace equivilent or providing code snippets whenever necessary. The document concludes with a step-by-step example of how to port one Facebook app to the MySpace platform, including before and after code.

Following this guide, Facebook game developers can quickly and easily bring their apps to the MySpace platform, accessing over 100 million additional active users.

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