Talk:FarmVille

Gameplay

"Activity occuring in the game world is logged on the players Facebook wall, allowing other players and non-playing Facebook contacts to observe activity on the players farm."

Would it be fair to say that this gives players a sense of the persistence of the game world, a sense that it is real and that the actions they take there bleed back into the real world? It's just my opinion so far... Jonathan Osborne 20:33, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Patterns

Main Patterns

Casual Gameplay, Social Interaction (needs to say something about social networking), simulation/toy?,Player Constructed Worlds,Persistent Game Worlds, Multiplayer Games (massively singleplayer sort of - need a new category?)

Possible others from old pattern list

Collecting Character Development?

Competence Areas - in a minor way

Construction - this one i think Constructive Play

Container Continuous Goals Creative Control

Delayed Reciprocity - important to the social networking, you need trust

Easter Eggs

Freedom of Choice - same way as the sims, many items

Gain Competence - unlocking new items Gain Ownership - buying or purchasing them

God Views God's Finger

Improved Abilities - added recently, the crop mastery thing

Investments

Perfect Information

Player Defined Goals

Progress Indicators

Reconfigurable Game World

Renewable Resources Resource Management - well sort of. there is money Resources

Score - sort of

The Show Must Go On

Social Rewards?