![]() ![]() Those late with their harvests may see their crops - and their investment - shrivel and die. Players who diligently tend to their crops see their farms flourish and their bank balances balloon. Players can add pigs, cows and chickens and accouterments such as barns, chicken coops, windmills and greenhouses.Īs is the case on real farmland, attentiveness in FarmVille is vital. Purposely simplistic, FarmVille lets players build and trick out their farms, starting with a tiny parcel they till and seed with a range of crops including berries, eggplant, wheat, soybeans, artichokes and pumpkins. "I have to say, living in Chicago, what appeals to me about FarmVille is it's not urban."įarmVille - with more than 72 million monthly users worldwide, the most talked-about application in Facebook status updates - heads a growing stable of simulated agriculture that also includes SlashKey's Farm Town on Facebook and PlayMesh's recently launched iFarm for the iPhone. "It's kind of what you don't see every day," Grimes said of FarmVille by Zynga, a San Francisco-based developer of games widely played at online hangouts such as Facebook. ![]() Since its launch last summer, the cartoonish simulation game seeming to meld "Leave it to Beaver" and "Green Acres" has become a Facebook phenomenon, luring in everyone from urbanites like Grimes to actual farmers while gently nudging people to think more about where their food comes from. She's one of tens of millions of occupants of FarmVille, a near-utopian, wildly popular online fantasy game where folks rush to another neighbor's aid, ribbons readily come as rewards, plants don't get diseased and there's never a calamitous frost, flood or drought. And the best part is the 40-year-old sex therapist never has to leave her computer to tend to it all. ![]()
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