subject: Zynga Launches Cityville [print this page] After FarmVille, FrontierVille, Mafia Wars, Zynga Poker, Caf World, Treasure Isle, YoVille, FishVille and PetVille, the worlds largest social game developer with more than 225 million monthly active users, is ready for its new online entertainment. Build your dream city, manage your neighborhood, and develop franchises with friends, thats the tagline of CityVille, a new online social game on Zyngas cheap web hosting. Being launched in the second week of November 2010, CityVille has debuted in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, available at CityVille.com on Facebook. It has been only a few months from the launching date and according to the application page there are now over 85 millions active users playing the game. As a comparison, there are about 58 million monthly active users of FarmVille, other previous hit game by Zynga. Thus, CityVille has become the largest application ever on the Facebook platform, by a huge number of online players. Judging at the numbers, it seems that CityVille will become the first application to pass 100 million active monthly users within the next few weeks.
What makes CityVille interesting? It is only city buiding game, isnt it? No, it is not. Some extra features added to the game, might attract you to play it. Here are some features offered by the current hit : 1). Players will be able to franchise and place businesses in each others cities, growing a headquarters and making additional profits, 2). 3D portrayed and spin around buildings to double the fun, 3). Shipping goods to friends and family by train, 4). More option to personalize and expand land in a brand new way in any direction, one section at a time. 5). Plus, each player can import and export goods by ships. Sean Kelly, CityVille General Manager described this most interactive Zynga game board to date as a Monopoly meets Main Street. For the game maniacs, it is more like SimCity meets FarmVille. No matter how it describes, this game is a big success.
It is amazing what Zynga did over a few years, from a small gaming company using cheap webhosting to a real gaming industry giant. Zyngas Vice Presedent of Product Development, Mark Skaggs, revealed the secret behind Zyngas success in the online gaming industry as the company brought along the people from traditional game industry (PlayStation, PC game, etc) and added creativity, design, polish, and other elements. Thats how Zynga starts to popularize social network games.
