Thursday Appdate: Candymeleon
Recently on Gamasutra, BitMonster's Lee Perry wrote a very insightful blog on an often intangible facet of game design: player feedback, that bit of game "feel" that makes a game not just fun, but injects ...
Waiting for Superman: The Beauty of Virality
One day in October 2012, I happened across this YouTube video with a top-down view of PSY’s concert in Seoul. Over 80,000 people were in attendance, with the crowd spanning entire city blocks. Every member ...
I Play SimCity Social for the Writing
“SimCity Social?” they ask me. “Sure, it’s got the SimCity branding and all, but isn’t it just another click-and-wait Facebook game?” Though I know the look of skepticism it will produce, my reply is, “Oh, I ...
User-Generated Content and Generating Contented Users
We at Frisky Mongoose like to play a lot of location-based games; it’s kind of our thing. There have been a lot of them over the years, as designers and developers have tried to gamify ...
Nothing Unusual at All is Happening Today
Just another regular day in the games industry! Dogfighting game War Thunder has a new set of combatants, there's a new contender in the console field, and SEGA's got a new sound engine. New DLC is ...
Goodbye, LucasArts, and Thank You
This is my Corley Motors keychain. Corley Motors is a fictional motorcycle manufacturer that the player, as gang leader Ben, must save from a hostile takeover in the classic LucasArts adventure Full Throttle. Together with Grim Fandango and ...
8 Reasons I Quit Playing Facebook Games
Two years ago, I ranted about the need for more challenge and chance in social games. Since then, the entire gaming industry has drastically changed. If I sound like a broken record on that note, ...
How Not to Play Location-based Games like an Idiot
Welcome to the wonderful world of location-based games! I see you’ve just downloaded a copy of Traveler’s Quest, or Dokobots, or CodeRunner, or perhaps you’ve got yourself on foursquare for the first time. That’s great! ...Archive | FarmVille RSS feed for this section
Can Games Make a Difference? Zynga Joins Nonprofits
Tweet In April of 2006, a flash-based browser game about the crises in Darfur in western Sudan hit the web. The game went on to be played more than 4 million times by more than 2 million players and generated an awareness of the humanitarian crisis. While the game didn’t actually stop genocide, imprison a [...]
Continue reading...Trouble in The Ville: EA Sues Zynga for Copyright Infringement
3. August 2012
Tweet Electronic Arts has sued Zynga for copyright infringement, according to a statement released by the publisher earlier today. In a lengthy complaint made public just hours ago, EA states that in development of Zynga’s upcoming The Ville, the developer “copied and misappropriated the original and distinctive expressive elements” from The Sims Social, which EA [...]
Continue reading...What Kind of Facebook Gamer Are You?
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Tweet Facebook! It is everywhere and everything, and it consumes us all. I would bet ten dollars that, as you read this, you’ve got Facebook open right now in another tab or window. It is also home to several thousand games, with more arriving every day, appealing to audiences from every walk of life. So, [...]
Continue reading...German Festival Items, Garden Mystery Game – FarmVille Updates!
30. September 2010
Tweet The German theme in FarmVille has taken on a bit of a different focus this week. While we still see the addition of some traditional German animals in the theme, the buildings and decorations are in a new “festival” sub-theme of sorts, that goes along with Oktoberfest. In addition, the Mystery Game has been [...]
Continue reading...BREAKING: Build A Super Combine in FarmVille – Harvest, Plow, and Plant in One Click!
29. September 2010
Tweet In the official FarmVille podcast from the second week of September, we were given a small teaser letting us know that something called a Super Combine would be coming to the game in the future. Very few details were known about the item then, but now the Super Combine has launched to the world, [...]
Continue reading...FarmVille Podcast Explains Nursery Barn Glitch, Teases Avatar Customization
29. September 2010
Tweet The latest edition of the FarmVille podcast saw FarmVille Community Manager Lexilicious not only offering users a sneak peek of items that are coming soon to FarmVille, but also to explain a growing concern among users that chose to own more than one Nursery Barn. Recently, there has been numerous “technical” difficulties seen with [...]
Continue reading...Complete FrontierVille Quests to Earn Items in FarmVille, Cafe World
29. September 2010
Tweet In an effort to grow the 30+ million user family that is known as FrontierVille, Zynga is offering users a chance to earn new items in other Zynga games, like Cafe World and FarmVille, for playing FrontierVille. For the Cafe World cross-promotion, we see a quest called “Homestead Cafe Part 1.” This quest asks [...]
Continue reading...Send More School Supplies for Haiti, New German Decorations – FarmVille Updates!
27. September 2010
Tweet Last week, we brought you the news of Zynga’s latest fundraising attempt to help Haiti, this time asking users to send school supplies to one another in the hopes of crossing the 400 million sent mark, triggering a large donation on Zynga’s part of $100,000. That 400 million barrier has come and gone, but [...]
Continue reading...Join Your Friends in New Crafting Co-Op Jobs in FarmVille
26. September 2010
Tweet We’ve known that Crafting Co-Op Farming Jobs would be coming to FarmVille for some time now, but we didn’t know when the feature would launch in full. Luckily, the wait is over, as Zynga has launched the feature, allowing you to join friends in Co-Op Farming jobs related to the three crafting buildings, growing [...]
Continue reading...Quacker’s Mystery Game, German Theme Continues – FarmVille Updates!
22. September 2010
Tweet The German theme in FarmVille has continued to expand this week with new limited edition items. In addition, the Mystery Game has been updated to the “Quacker’s Mystery Game,” which gives you an opportunity to win some fine feathered friends! Let’s take a look at these new updates in detail. German Theme Adds New [...]
Continue reading...Germany Items, Sweet Seeds for Haiti Crop & Co-Op Job – FarmVille Updates!
20. September 2010
Tweet As we told you yesterday, FarmVille is one again holding a Sweet Seeds for Haiti event that will see users collecting School Supplies in order to fill their virtual Backpacks and receive free prizes. In addition to this, another Sweet Seeds for Haiti crop is once again available to grow in the marketplace for [...]
Continue reading...Send School Supplies in FarmVille – Help Build A School in Haiti!
19. September 2010
Tweet With Zynga’s continued efforts to help the children of Haiti, they have launched their biggest promotion in FarmVille yet – one that will see the game’s community working to send hundreds of millions of virtual school supplies to one another, all in the hopes of reaching Zynga’s goal, triggering a large donation on the [...]
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