Happy Thanksgiving partners! If you have a few spare moments this holiday, make sure to log into FrontierVille to serve your virtual neighbors their own Thanksgiving Feast!
This is done by clicking on your Thanksgiving Feast table and then clicking on the "Serve" buttons associated with each step of the feast. If you've yet to complete the final part of the Thanksgiving Feast missions, that being the step requiring 40 of each of the food items, then you can still serve the courses that you have completed.
What's the point in doing so, you ask? Simple - after each course served, you will see your table animate as the your feast's hungry guests start stuffing their faces. Plus, you'll earn a load of free goodies each time a course is served. These bonuses come in the form of collection items (both for the new Thanksgiving-themed collections, and for other general collections), free coins, food, experience points, and even energy items like Dinners and Lunches.
If you've completed the entire set of Thanksgiving Feast missions, you'll be able to collect four sets of rewards for doing little more than clicking on the table. It requires no energy to do so, so what are you waiting for? Serve those hungry guests of yours before they starve!
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Thứ Tư, 1 tháng 2, 2012
Thứ Hai, 9 tháng 1, 2012
Wishful Features: A FrontierVille animations toggle button
FrontierVille is intense
Ever visit that one Neighbor in FrontierVille who happens to be somewhat of an overachiever? You know who I'm talking about. Almost everyone has that one friend who is Level 150 with the biggest homestead available, every animated decoration out there and his legion of Chickens (see above) for all to see. Did I say "for all to see?" Sorry, what I meant to say was, "for all to cringe in horror as their browsers freeze and processors melt through the surface of their four-year-old laptops."
At least the first part of that vision should be familiar with a good lot of you. And it isn't just the sharp visuals in FrontierVille that are to blame. It's the animations. If you haven't noticed, just about every animal, building and holiday item slash decoration has an animation attached. Sure, most animations are simple one-second-long loops, but multiply that by the amount of items that litter most veteran players' homesteads and it's enough to send the average computer into hiding.
Sure, that Graphics Quality toggle helps a bit, but for those who have yet to--bear with me here--upgrade their primary Facebook-gaming machine in the past few years, Flash-based games (i.e. almost all Facebook games) are going to punish the average computer. It might sound ridiculous that we're talking about computer upgrades on Games.com, but rest assured this is all coming from someone who easily falls into the camp of "average computer" face first with a three-year-old HP Pavilion laptop. I will be the first to tell you that computers do not age like sharp cheese or fine wine, but more like mold on bread or Keith Richards.
With 250 million players, it should be safe to assume that the majority of social gamers are probably in the same boat. So, Zynga, why not add a similar option to the Graphics Quality toggle in FrontierVille? Make it so that players with less-than-favorable computing situations can actually pay their more technologically advanced friends a visit every once in a while. If players are already making liberal use of the Graphics Quality toggle in nearly every game they play (at least I need to), then turning off a few idle character animations isn't going to make the visual FrontierVille experience that much worse. Your fellow pioneers seem to agree.
Ever visit that one Neighbor in FrontierVille who happens to be somewhat of an overachiever? You know who I'm talking about. Almost everyone has that one friend who is Level 150 with the biggest homestead available, every animated decoration out there and his legion of Chickens (see above) for all to see. Did I say "for all to see?" Sorry, what I meant to say was, "for all to cringe in horror as their browsers freeze and processors melt through the surface of their four-year-old laptops."
At least the first part of that vision should be familiar with a good lot of you. And it isn't just the sharp visuals in FrontierVille that are to blame. It's the animations. If you haven't noticed, just about every animal, building and holiday item slash decoration has an animation attached. Sure, most animations are simple one-second-long loops, but multiply that by the amount of items that litter most veteran players' homesteads and it's enough to send the average computer into hiding.
Sure, that Graphics Quality toggle helps a bit, but for those who have yet to--bear with me here--upgrade their primary Facebook-gaming machine in the past few years, Flash-based games (i.e. almost all Facebook games) are going to punish the average computer. It might sound ridiculous that we're talking about computer upgrades on Games.com, but rest assured this is all coming from someone who easily falls into the camp of "average computer" face first with a three-year-old HP Pavilion laptop. I will be the first to tell you that computers do not age like sharp cheese or fine wine, but more like mold on bread or Keith Richards.
With 250 million players, it should be safe to assume that the majority of social gamers are probably in the same boat. So, Zynga, why not add a similar option to the Graphics Quality toggle in FrontierVille? Make it so that players with less-than-favorable computing situations can actually pay their more technologically advanced friends a visit every once in a while. If players are already making liberal use of the Graphics Quality toggle in nearly every game they play (at least I need to), then turning off a few idle character animations isn't going to make the visual FrontierVille experience that much worse. Your fellow pioneers seem to agree.
FrontierVille Playtime II Timed Mission now available
Way back on the 17 of December, we brought you a sneak peek of a then unreleased time mission in FrontierVille that we believed would be coming to the game in the future. Well, the future is now, as the Playtime II Timed Mission is now available to complete for a limited time.
As we told you last month, you'll have just two days after accepting this mission to complete it on your Frontier. the mission requires three tasks to be completed:
Craft 20 Planks
Collect 10 Metal Bars
Collect 10 Wood Rasps
You must accept this mission by January 14 in order to be able to complete it in your game, and you'll receive a See-Saw decorative item, 250 XP, and 1,000 coins for completing the mission before your two days are over.
You'll of course need to have plenty of help from friends in order to finish this mission on time, but it definitely isn't impossible. Happy gaming!
As we told you last month, you'll have just two days after accepting this mission to complete it on your Frontier. the mission requires three tasks to be completed:
Craft 20 Planks
Collect 10 Metal Bars
Collect 10 Wood Rasps
You must accept this mission by January 14 in order to be able to complete it in your game, and you'll receive a See-Saw decorative item, 250 XP, and 1,000 coins for completing the mission before your two days are over.
You'll of course need to have plenty of help from friends in order to finish this mission on time, but it definitely isn't impossible. Happy gaming!
Thứ Bảy, 7 tháng 1, 2012
FrontierVille Valentine's Day Card made lovingly with (virtual) Roses
It was only a matter of time before someone put FrontierVille's Rose crops to good use. Pioneer and FrontierVille Info reader Alpha 595 has created likely the cutest gesture ever to spawn from a Facebook game. He crafted a Valentine's Day e-card by meticulously planting White and Red Roses to spell his girlfriend's name, Sami, and draw a heart. Throw in some crafty PhotoShop work and--voila--a Valentine's Card brimming with cute. You know you guys out there almost man-teared when looking at this (was it just me?). We just hope the lucky lady is also a FrontierVille player or this likely won't get the same heartfelt reception.
[Image Credit: FrontierVille Info]
Check out the rest of our Valentine's Day 2011 coverage right here.
Have you made any lovely Valentine's gestures via social games? What's your preferred method of saying "I love you" on that special day?
[Image Credit: FrontierVille Info]
Check out the rest of our Valentine's Day 2011 coverage right here.
Have you made any lovely Valentine's gestures via social games? What's your preferred method of saying "I love you" on that special day?
Thứ Sáu, 6 tháng 1, 2012
FrontierVille 'Purple Dog' glitch stumps players, forum moderators
Have any of you seen that purple doggie on the FrontierVille homestead? You know, the one with the waggly tail ... and the word "Temp" painted on its body? Unfortunately, it appears that this purple pup is not for sale, but a coding glitch that appeared around the same time the Injured Critter Goals were introduced. Several players on the forums report seeing this Purple Dog and have been asking why, but the moderators' guess is as good as ours.
"This has been discussed a few times now, Mizz Faith said, a FrontierVille forums Super Moderator. "The overall consensus is, we're baffled. I'm gonna ask again and see if it was ever figured out. It's quite a creepy looking little thing!" So if the moderators don't know a thing, it's likely that we won't either. My best guess is that this little scrapper is a placeholder for future items or animals. Perhaps it's used in testing new features before the artwork for items and animals is finalized. That said, it's just as likely that we'll never know and all we'll have to work with are screen shots. So, if you see the Purple Dog, be sure to snap a picture of it as you might never see this elusive creature again.
[Image Credit: iRonX]
Have you seen the Purple Dog on your homestead? What do you think it represents to the FrontierVille studios?
"This has been discussed a few times now, Mizz Faith said, a FrontierVille forums Super Moderator. "The overall consensus is, we're baffled. I'm gonna ask again and see if it was ever figured out. It's quite a creepy looking little thing!" So if the moderators don't know a thing, it's likely that we won't either. My best guess is that this little scrapper is a placeholder for future items or animals. Perhaps it's used in testing new features before the artwork for items and animals is finalized. That said, it's just as likely that we'll never know and all we'll have to work with are screen shots. So, if you see the Purple Dog, be sure to snap a picture of it as you might never see this elusive creature again.
[Image Credit: iRonX]
Have you seen the Purple Dog on your homestead? What do you think it represents to the FrontierVille studios?
Thứ Sáu, 30 tháng 12, 2011
Zynga's Brian Reynolds trying deeper, more clever social game design
Hey, you asked for it. Zynga's chief game designer Brian Reynolds never rests, and even now he's working to bring deeper game mechanics to social games without increasing their complexity, Gamasutra reports. Good call, Reynolds, because we're not sure these games could become more complex, really. (Have any of you seen Kingdoms of Camelot?)
In an interview with the game industry news site, the FrontierVille creator was asked whether he expected to social games to become deeper. Reynolds replied, "I think we'll continue to learn how to design games that way. We'll be better and better at hiding the friction, but making there be depth."
In fact, that's what the former Civilization designer has been up to all along. The mechanics you see happening in FrontierVille today were intentionally designed to intuitively teach you how to play without reading a manual or 700 pop-ups. How close he got to that point is up for debate, but he presses on regardless in the name of deeper Facebook games.
So extremely simple parts that just happen to have very subtle interactions with each other -- that was what we were trying to do with FrontierVille. For example, have a lot of little systems, but we don't make the player have to read a book on how to play before they can start. It's more like, 'Oh look, there's a whole world of stuff; just click on stuff. No matter what you click on, something good will happen!' And then, eventually, you notice that animals work a little bit different from plants, and then maybe you notice, 'Oh look, if I put a sheep here, then the grass doesn't grow back.'
Reynolds continues to explain (check the full interview here) that positive reactions this garners from players, and that this feeling is one he wants to create in his games more regularly without introducing too many complexities like menus and guides. While some would argue that games like FarmVille and CityVille could use even less complexity, this is at least exciting for what Reynolds aspires to in social games. And if the next innovation in social games comes from Reynolds and Zynga, we know it will stir massive waves.
Are you excited to see what Reynolds has in store for Zynga, and inevitably, social games? How would you make social games deeper without being complex?
In an interview with the game industry news site, the FrontierVille creator was asked whether he expected to social games to become deeper. Reynolds replied, "I think we'll continue to learn how to design games that way. We'll be better and better at hiding the friction, but making there be depth."
In fact, that's what the former Civilization designer has been up to all along. The mechanics you see happening in FrontierVille today were intentionally designed to intuitively teach you how to play without reading a manual or 700 pop-ups. How close he got to that point is up for debate, but he presses on regardless in the name of deeper Facebook games.
So extremely simple parts that just happen to have very subtle interactions with each other -- that was what we were trying to do with FrontierVille. For example, have a lot of little systems, but we don't make the player have to read a book on how to play before they can start. It's more like, 'Oh look, there's a whole world of stuff; just click on stuff. No matter what you click on, something good will happen!' And then, eventually, you notice that animals work a little bit different from plants, and then maybe you notice, 'Oh look, if I put a sheep here, then the grass doesn't grow back.'
Reynolds continues to explain (check the full interview here) that positive reactions this garners from players, and that this feeling is one he wants to create in his games more regularly without introducing too many complexities like menus and guides. While some would argue that games like FarmVille and CityVille could use even less complexity, this is at least exciting for what Reynolds aspires to in social games. And if the next innovation in social games comes from Reynolds and Zynga, we know it will stir massive waves.
Are you excited to see what Reynolds has in store for Zynga, and inevitably, social games? How would you make social games deeper without being complex?
FrontierVille Sneak Peek: The Oregon Trail Timed Goal, 'Oregon, Ho!'
FrontierVille's Orgeon Trail
You read that right, fellow pioneers. Zynga could be going all English Countryside on FrontierVille as early as May with the Oregon Trail expansion around the corner. FrontierVille Info found exactly how it will be introduced: a leaked Timed Goal known as "Oregon, Ho! (Or On the Trail)." You might have noticed how often the fan site has made predictions concerning the The Oregon Trail, and they've finally paid off. Check behind the break for details on how this mission might pan out.
Oregon Trail Ho Timed Goal
FrontierVille Info has found a few details on the new Timed Goal, but nothing has been confirmed by Zynga and its subject to change. The new Timed Goal will have players completing these three tasks:
Collect Nine Pages from the Medical Journal
Watch FronterVille's Oregon Trail Video
Collect Ten Snake Bite Kits
You can imagine that the pages from the Medical Journal and the 10 Snake Bites will be friend gifts or part of a larger mission, but what's most important is the second requirement. Soon, it appears that Zynga will release a trailer for the expansion, so you can imagine this is serious stuff. If this was just another content update, there would be no reason for the developer to release a trailer and force you to watch it--this expansion is going to be big.
While I would like to see something new, I can't help but expect this to be identical to FarmVille's English Countryside, but out West. FrontierVille Info reports that the Timed Goal will expire May 31, which points to the first or second week of May for this mission to release. Keep your fingers crossed that we're right.
[Image Credit: FrontierVille Info]
Do you think that this information is enough to expect that the Oregon Trail is coming soon? What do you think the new expansion will be like?
You read that right, fellow pioneers. Zynga could be going all English Countryside on FrontierVille as early as May with the Oregon Trail expansion around the corner. FrontierVille Info found exactly how it will be introduced: a leaked Timed Goal known as "Oregon, Ho! (Or On the Trail)." You might have noticed how often the fan site has made predictions concerning the The Oregon Trail, and they've finally paid off. Check behind the break for details on how this mission might pan out.
Oregon Trail Ho Timed Goal
FrontierVille Info has found a few details on the new Timed Goal, but nothing has been confirmed by Zynga and its subject to change. The new Timed Goal will have players completing these three tasks:
Collect Nine Pages from the Medical Journal
Watch FronterVille's Oregon Trail Video
Collect Ten Snake Bite Kits
You can imagine that the pages from the Medical Journal and the 10 Snake Bites will be friend gifts or part of a larger mission, but what's most important is the second requirement. Soon, it appears that Zynga will release a trailer for the expansion, so you can imagine this is serious stuff. If this was just another content update, there would be no reason for the developer to release a trailer and force you to watch it--this expansion is going to be big.
While I would like to see something new, I can't help but expect this to be identical to FarmVille's English Countryside, but out West. FrontierVille Info reports that the Timed Goal will expire May 31, which points to the first or second week of May for this mission to release. Keep your fingers crossed that we're right.
[Image Credit: FrontierVille Info]
Do you think that this information is enough to expect that the Oregon Trail is coming soon? What do you think the new expansion will be like?
FrontierVille Sneak Peek: Oregon Trail items blow in from the West
Oregon Grape Flower Haning Pelts
That's it, the floodgates have opened. Details of FrontierVille's first ever expansion, The Oregon Trail, are likely all over the Internet. FrontierVille Info gives us the latest in 13 leaked images of items we might find while on the Oregon Trail including all nine pages from the Medical Journal for the Oregon, Ho! Timed Goal. Check after the break for a look at the rest of this extremely exciting--ahem, cautiously excited, of course--early content.
FrontierVille Medical Journal 1 FrontierVille Medical Journal 2 FrontierVille Medical Journal 3 FrontierVille Medical Journal 4 FrontierVille Medical Journal 5
Here are all the items that may or may not be part of an Oregon Trail expansion:
Medical Kit
Oregon Grape Flower
Medical Journal Page
Oregon Trail Cooties
Oregon Trail Measles
Oregon Trail Picklefinger
Oregon Trail Scoots
Oregon Trail Skunkticks
FrontierVille Medical Journal 6 FrontierVille Medical Journal 7 FrontierVille Medical Journal 8 FrontierVille Medical Journal 9 FrontierVille Medical Journal 10
You can likely already tell that most of those items will almost certainly be the nine Medical Journal Pages needed for one of the Goal's requirements. As for the other items, we haven't an idea in the slightest other than they appear to be decorations. Though, the black briefcase sure does look like a Snake Bite Kit. It shouldn't be long before more information and images appear, so sit tight--and stop staring at the Oregon Trail in-game banner ... it's weird.
[Image Credit: FrontierVille Info]
Are you excited to see more information released about the imminent Oregon Trail expansion? When do you think the Timed Goal will finally drop?
That's it, the floodgates have opened. Details of FrontierVille's first ever expansion, The Oregon Trail, are likely all over the Internet. FrontierVille Info gives us the latest in 13 leaked images of items we might find while on the Oregon Trail including all nine pages from the Medical Journal for the Oregon, Ho! Timed Goal. Check after the break for a look at the rest of this extremely exciting--ahem, cautiously excited, of course--early content.
FrontierVille Medical Journal 1 FrontierVille Medical Journal 2 FrontierVille Medical Journal 3 FrontierVille Medical Journal 4 FrontierVille Medical Journal 5
Here are all the items that may or may not be part of an Oregon Trail expansion:
Medical Kit
Oregon Grape Flower
Medical Journal Page
Oregon Trail Cooties
Oregon Trail Measles
Oregon Trail Picklefinger
Oregon Trail Scoots
Oregon Trail Skunkticks
FrontierVille Medical Journal 6 FrontierVille Medical Journal 7 FrontierVille Medical Journal 8 FrontierVille Medical Journal 9 FrontierVille Medical Journal 10
You can likely already tell that most of those items will almost certainly be the nine Medical Journal Pages needed for one of the Goal's requirements. As for the other items, we haven't an idea in the slightest other than they appear to be decorations. Though, the black briefcase sure does look like a Snake Bite Kit. It shouldn't be long before more information and images appear, so sit tight--and stop staring at the Oregon Trail in-game banner ... it's weird.
[Image Credit: FrontierVille Info]
Are you excited to see more information released about the imminent Oregon Trail expansion? When do you think the Timed Goal will finally drop?
Thứ Hai, 26 tháng 12, 2011
FrontierVille Cheats and Tips: Clover Ready Boosts good for easy coins
Having trouble paying the bills on the Homestead? Or rather, are you low on cash in FrontierVille? It's OK, we're all friends here. Don't worry, we have a fix to that, thanks to FrontierVille Info. The fansite has posted a neat little trick for how to essentially make coins out of nothing. You can imagine that this a surely a glitch, so join us behind the break ASAP. That is, if you want to be rich in a matter of minutes.
Step One: Buy Clover Ready Boosts 5x from the Boosted General Store for 1,050 coins
Step Two: Sell Clover Ready Boosts 5x from the Inventory for 2500 coins
Step Three: Profit (literally)
Clover Ready Boosts
That's it. It really is that easy. With this strategy, you could make hundreds of thousands of coins in an instant. There's no doubt that Zynga will be onto the glitch soon enough, so take advantage while you still can. And take this as a warning: Take advantage of this glitch at your own risk, be wary of the consequences if Zynga reprimands those who make us of the glitch.
[Image Credit: FrontierVille Info]
Check out the rest of our FrontierVille Cheats & Tips right here.
Have you made use of this glitch before? Do you plan to use this method to make some extra cash? What are your thoughts on using glitches?
Step One: Buy Clover Ready Boosts 5x from the Boosted General Store for 1,050 coins
Step Two: Sell Clover Ready Boosts 5x from the Inventory for 2500 coins
Step Three: Profit (literally)
Clover Ready Boosts
That's it. It really is that easy. With this strategy, you could make hundreds of thousands of coins in an instant. There's no doubt that Zynga will be onto the glitch soon enough, so take advantage while you still can. And take this as a warning: Take advantage of this glitch at your own risk, be wary of the consequences if Zynga reprimands those who make us of the glitch.
[Image Credit: FrontierVille Info]
Check out the rest of our FrontierVille Cheats & Tips right here.
Have you made use of this glitch before? Do you plan to use this method to make some extra cash? What are your thoughts on using glitches?
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