The 20 million is in large part due to hundreds of new players clicking for Obama yesterday! We owe a lot of our growth to our supporters with blogs. Check out the great press they’ve been giving us:

Morgan X @ Daily Kos
cieldumort @ Obama for President
Elise @ The Obama Minute
Joshua Levy @ techPresident
Ian Bogost @ Water Cooler Games
Cristina Chang @ Asian Americans for Obama
Why We Need Obama

You may notice from the screenshot that I had to lose the ad puzzle due to size constraints. Plus the Facebook version doesn’t have all the same pages as the website. I tweaked the content to better fit into Facebook; so I link to the site for some of the extra pages instead of including them in the app. This is my first Facebook app so I’d appreciate any and all feedback to make it better.

I finally got the ranking scoreboard work done (click the thumbnail to see it full-size). It took a few days longer than I anticipated because I had to build the whole concept of a user into the game. I’ve kept it as simple as possible so there are no logins or passwords and your user is your browser cookie so make sure you don’t lose your cookie .

The ranking scoreboard shows the top 10 ranking players for the current day and for all time. If you aren’t in the top 10 it will show you how far down the chain you are. It also has a nice pie graph showing the current levels of the players.

My skills at the game are obviously lacking compared to the hordes of anonymous people and the unrivaled skill of Mr. Don M. Fall, the current leader. All of the ‘Anonymous’ people are the default names for people who played before I setup the user system. It will be a challenge to knock all those Anonymous people out but I trust that if Don could do it then we can too!

The “Question of the Day” (QOTD) subscription option shows up when you are first prompted to setup your user profile. Just enter your email address and leave the subscription box checked to start receiving the emails when I get around to sending the first ones out later today. If you are an RSS feed sort of person you can subscribe to the Question of the Day RSS feed.

Kind of irrelevant but I ran across this great animation the other day.  Sadly, I don’t know who the original author is but I love how the way they highlighted how small donors can make a difference.  That’s one of the core beliefs behind Click 4 Obama.  No matter how little you contribute individually, your contribution combined with everyone else’s can have a dramatic effect.

Back on topic, I’ve been working on a couple cool new features for Click 4 Obama that I’ll be releasing shortly. First is a ranking scoreboard to show how much you donate in comparison to your fellow supporters and I hope to start a “Question of the Day” feed and email subscription soon. Stay tuned for more info.

Okay, hopefully you’ve got the feel for the idea.  There is a frequently asked questions page that goes into a bit of detail but I’m going to try to give you the concise summary. Here goes:

1. You Play & Learn
2. Ads on the game site produce $
3. $ buys ads for Obama

Sounds pretty simple right?  The 3 steps do abstract a bit from the actual mechanics.  The amount of Obama ads bought depends on how many questions you get right.  That is your incentive to learn and my incentive to challenge you.  If I bought an ad for every question you answered then I would probably go bankrupt pretty quickly.  One of the big unknowns in this experiment is what the sustainable rate of advertising is.  I’m running Click 4 Obama as a non-profit with all the revenue going towards ads.  I’m starting with what I think is a reasonable rate but I will hopefully be able to increase the rate to buy more ads as I figure out the economics behind it all.

Since Click 4 Obama just launched, I’d love to hear feedback on anything and everything.

• Is the game too hard?
• Are the questions boring? Submit your own!
• Are our ads uninspiring?  We would love help creating new ones.
• Where should we buy ads to be most effective?

Comment here or drop me an email at feedback@click4obama.com.