Rock-Paper-Sumo is a gaming application for Facebook

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

 by Frima Studio

Frima Studio

Based in Quebec City and founded in 2003, Frima Studio is a Canadian multiplatform game developer. The studio develops products across multiple platforms, including the Web, console, handheld, iPhone, iPad, TV and mobile...

; it is the first 100% Québécois-produced app for Facebook. It was released in June 2010.

It can be played both in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 and French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

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As is common to many Facebook app, you can send gift to friends or invite them to play.

You lead your avatar, a sumo, to victory by answering challenges or by sending them. A challenge is a best-out-of-three Rock Paper Scissors match. Matches which end in a draw or in your victory give you money and points. The points help you gain rank within the pyramid, or "ladder

Game ladder

A ladder tournament is a form of tournament for games and sports. It is an extended tournament, which can potentially go on indefinitely. In a ladder tournament, players are listed as if on the rungs of a ladder. The objective for a player is to reach the highest rung of the ladder...

". The money can be used to buy clothes (avatar customisation is another common features among Facebook app) or bento boxes.

The bento boxes are how you gain weight: instead of the more traditional levels, this is an original way to measure your progress within the game. Bento boxes also gives energy, with which you can send challenges.

The Sumo and Japanese themes are more prominent in the other facettes of the game:

- The daily tasks to gain additional points and cash include "Dojo Duties".

- The in-game money, Bento Bucks (a pun on Bento

Bento

is a single-portion takeout or home-packed meal common in Japanese cuisine. A traditional bento consists of rice, fish or meat, and one or more pickled or cooked vegetables, usually in a box-shaped container. Containers range from disposable mass produced to hand crafted lacquerware...

 Box), as well as Dojo

Dojo

A is a Japanese term which literally means "place of the way". Initially, dōjōs were adjunct to temples. The term can refer to a formal training place for any of the Japanese do arts but typically it is considered the formal gathering place for students of any Japanese martial arts style to...

Dollars (the currency to be bought with real-world money)

- The avatar's customisation (although other games of Frima, as well as the sponsor)

The app also includes a system of achievements: use a certain move combination, or do a certain, task, gain weight,etc.