Farmville: Game Play Basics

Zynga has created a relatively new online game called Farmville. The purpose of the game is to create your very own farm complete with crops, farm animals and various farm related buildings and to maintain your virtual farm.

When you first sign up for the game, you are given a small farm in which to plant various crops. You have a selection of seeds to choose from but before you can plant them you have to plow your fields. There is a plowing tool feature where you will prepare the ground for planting.

Once you have plowed the section of farm you would like to plant seeds in, you can go to the market where you will find several different seeds to plant. Choose a seed and plant them on your freshly plowed farm. The seeds will need to grow and the time they take varies for each type of seed. You will see the time constraints of each seed when you purchase them.

Since Farmville is mainly accessed through the social networking site Facebook, you can invite people to be your neighbors if they also play the game. You can visit neighbors and help them with their farms and receive experience points every time you do so. The experience points are given for visiting friends, planting seeds and plowing the field. 

You will level up once your experience points reach a certain amount. Each time you level up you will be able to buy new items to plant or to purchase. Farmville also lets you give your fellow neighbors free gifts, which range from animals, trees and seeds to various limited items Zynga dreams up.

The game play of Farmville is fairly simple; maintain your farm by harvesting your crops and then plant new ones. You also have to harvest your animals and trees. The trees grow various items, which you will harvest for coins. The animals will give milk, eggs and various other items related to the animal.

You do have the option of expanding your farm to create an even bigger planting area but this takes time and effort to maintain. Farmville has recently added new vehicles that make plowing, harvesting and planting much easier and faster. You can use the vehicles several times before your gas can runs out. If this happens you will need to purchase more using Farm cash.

Farm cash is virtual cash that you purchase using real money. This virtual cash allows you to not only buy fuel but also special items within the game like homes and trees, etc. You do not need farm cash in order to play the game; there are plenty of free items available to make it a very enjoyable experience.

Overall, Farmville is a very fun game, once you get your farm going you will find yourself running back to check on it several times a day, it is that addictive!