Who invented farmville on facebook

I wrote the date on the wall, and said we need to count the days until we are in the market with our own game. Zynga then acquired MyMiniLife and directed its engineers towards a farm game, and the team came up with FarmVille. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg asked Pincus to send across all the content for the game to filter out what Facebook did not want to show.

This led to FarmVille becoming the first major game to leverage the news feed as an extension of the core game, as per Pincus. The game then launched on June 19, , and reached one million daily active users by the end of the first week. FarmVille demonstrated that a game could be a living, always-on service that could deliver daily surprise and delight, similar to a favorite TV series. The team went to talk to Zynga, which decided to just buy the company outright.

Zynga sent in people to pack up the team's East Palo Alto house and on Monday they set up shop in Zynga's offices. Initially Farmville was launched to family and friends only, and that same day about 18, people played the game. After only four days, Farmville hit a million users. We peaked at about 32 million daily active users. There is, says Mahajan, a big misconception that you have to have virality to be successful. These NPS scores have been calculated for lots of different companies, and all of the most successful ones have high scores.

The player does this by paying coins for plowing a unit of land and for planting crops, such as tomatoes on it, finally harvesting them after a certain amount of time has elapsed. The amount of time it takes for it to mature and how much money it yields when harvested is dependent on the crop planted and is noted on its entry in the "market" dialog. They will wither,or they will be of no use when time has elapsed.

However, a player can use farm cash to purchase an "unwither" to rejuvenate the crops or can use a biplane with "instant grow" to cause crops to be immediately available for harvest. Although the biplane can be purchased with coins, this special feature is only available for farm cash. As a player levels up more, crops with a higher payoff and economy will become available. Livestock and other plants A player may also buy or receive from friends livestock and trees or bushes, such as cherry trees or chickens, which do not wither but instead become ready for harvest for preset amounts of money a set amount of time from their last harvest.

Social interaction Like most Zynga games, FarmVille incorporates the social networking aspect of Facebook into many areas of gameplay. Players may invite their friends to be their neighbors, allowing them to perform five actions on each other's farms per day by "visiting" it.

Neighbors may also send gifts and supplies to each other, complete specialized tasks together for rewards, and join "co-ops" - joint efforts to grow a certain amount of certain crops. So farewell to FarmVille. The era it defined is long since over, but the influence it had on gaming remains. You must login or create an account to comment. Zynga Facebook.