cityville-2715-Karis
**Posted by karis at 2:30 AM
What’s the game?
City Ville is the new game from facebook.
CityVille is a browser based casual social city-building simulation game developed by Zynga as an application for the social-networking website Facebook. It was announced on November 18, 2010, but the launch date was delayed to December to allow Zynga to make adjustments to the game[1]
The game attracted 290,000 players on its launch day making it Zynga's largest launch ever at the time of its release.[2] On the 2nd of January it reached the most monthly active users for an application ever on Facebook, beating Farmville's previous record although numbers may drop as its release date was exactly a month prior.[3]
It is a game to create and run your own city. The player will start from building the base house and plant the farm to support your own business. There is a challenge to guide you to build up your city and the challenge will be updating after the player finish one. The player plant the farm and collect the goods from the farm and that will become a business commodity for sell to your friends as a neighbour city or support in your own business shops.
In facebook, one of the biggest points is connecting friends. How can be having more interaction with your friends in Cityville? When you build your city, you not just keep on building it but you have to run it. There is a little face expression in your control navigation to show how your citizens feel now. You have to build some community building and hire your friends as staffs who work in your community building like post office.
Collecting the rent from your houses and send a visiting bus to your friends’ city could help you increasing the levels.
It is a self-supporting running game.
Who makes this game?
Zynga is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States.[1] The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.[3]
Why it so popular?
People love to build up things which are belonging to you. Building a own control and run it, that is so cool.
Before the City Ville, one of the famous games of Zynga is Fame Ville. It also is a self-supporting running game but the animation on Fame Ville is not vivid enough. In the latter year of 2010, many people move their eye to the new game - Restaurant City which from Playfish is one of the world's largest and fastest growing social games companies. The animation in Restaurant City more vivid and it also can run your own restaurant, cafe, bistro or diner and hire your friends to as chefs to cook your recipes and dishes! Add waiters or even janitors and keep customers happy. The game mode of the Restaurant City makes the players having more a really life experience than fame Ville.
I think Zynga takes Restaurant City as a reference to create City Ville. The animation is upgrade and it gets more control and is more convenience in the inter face of the game.
Reference:
[1][2]City Ville, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityVille
[3]Zynga, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga
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