farmville

Back in March, I didn’t count Farmville as one of the top 25 board and card games on Facebook. Maybe that was an oversight. Is Farmville a board game?

Farmville is the number one game (period) on Facebook, with over 65 million players: 30 million regularly play every month, 11 million play every day.

Farmville is a civilization building game centered around your farm patch. Plant available seeds, wait the required time, harvest the crops. Don’t wait too long or the crops will wilt. Simple premise, tons of little touches, such as rare seeds, avatars, neighboring plots, and so on.

Zynga’s games may all be electronic social games, but they’re also all board and card games, with a dose of real time added to keep players involved and on their toes. And they’re hiring for dozens of open positions, including a game designer.