Friday, April 22, 2011

Farmville, Continued...

To continue the discussion about Farmville we had today in class. The New York Times wrote a piece about the popularity of Farmville a year and half ago.

I thought this part was the most interesting:

Of course, real-life farming is quite a bit messier and more dangerous than FarmVille (perhaps just one reason that FarmVille players outnumber actual farmers in the United States by more than 60 to 1). Yet some of the game’s biggest fans are farmers.

1 comment:

Kaitlin said...

Perhaps there's something to that. The most popular game was not something entirely unrealistic like Mafia Wars or that zombie game - it is the game based on a real, humdrum activity (minus the dangerous bits and adding more fun parts).
And for some pre-Facebook fun...check out this boardgame: http://www.farmgame.com/