What I Learned From Farmville - Game Design

[Duff-e]

Interesting article:

http://meidell.dk/archives/2010/11/25/w ... o-play-it/

[Mazy]

Hah viral! It's one if my friends and former colleagues that wrote that, I posted it on Facebook yesterday.

It's interesting just how much of an self enforcing circle it is, how much of it is getting new people into it for your personal gains. There's lots of obvious stuff such as paying actual earth money giving a boost requiring less playtime, but for someone that has a keen interesting in what the hell has made this game so huge then it's quite cool to have someone take one for the team like this

[Taylor]

Farmville analysis article goes viral. Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

[insta]

Farmville analysis article goes viral. Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

It's like rain on your wedding day?

[Taylor]

Did I just get Ed Byrned?

[Duff-e]

Saw it on hacker news. It was getting a lot of attention there. Cool that you know the guy mazy.