Farm Games
The success of the Farmville game for Facebook, has basically created a whole new niche in online gaming (free browser games) for specifically ‘Farm Games’.
Yes! Amazingly, Farmgames and Farm Simulations are now massively popular and have taken the form of MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) games.
From the humble beginnings of Farmville by Zynga Games, thousands of Facebook freaks have started growing vege gardens and becoming ‘virtual farmers’ out pointing their friends and family to have a higher ranking in the game than anyone else.
Again, based on the ‘free gaming’ concept that allows anyone to try before they buy in a sort of shareware model, farm games have really hit a chord with gamers who maybe shying away from the likes of medieval battle simulations like Free Evony, The Grepolis Game and Kingory Game.
From the base of a ‘free farm game’ there have even spawned sheep games, tractor games and all things based on farming which his hilarious.
The popularity of free farm games, in particular farmville and of course the massively followed mafiawars for facebook is a threat to the major hits in the gaming world at the moment – evony free forever.
But the writing on the wall for the future of free online web games could be through facebook. The door is open for facebook developers and free game apps are becoming hugely lucrative as more people tap into the gaming style within the social networking phenomenon that is facebook.
Expect to see plenty of new releases in 2010 on facebook, with many major gaming hits like kingory and evony looking to open free facebook versions very soon.
There has been no official confirmation from innogames, the makers of tribalwars the game and the west game, but many believe they could also step into the social networking game arena and bring their popular games including grepolis into the fray and compete with mafia wars and others.
With facebook popularity now rivaling that of google, its the number 2 frequented site on the worldwideweb – game develoeprs know that they can tap into a whole lot more players by joining forces with FB into the future and keeping the game free.
