Mid-sized developer Lolapps' plan to break into the ranks of well-known game companies on Facebook is off to a good start. The company's new game heads up last week's AppData list of fastest-growing games on Facebook, defined as those still under a million monthly active users:

Critter Island, the new Lolapps game, heads up the list with 290,743 new MAU. Although it has been out for a few weeks now, the island management game's biggest gains have mostly come in the past few days.

CBSSports.com Franchise Football comes in second with a new fantasy football app for the fall season. Several similar CBS apps have done well in the past, so the company is obviously onto something; but they rarely grow past a few hundred thousand users, and usually disappear after the sports season is over.

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