Rotate your blimp to change direction and swipe the screen to change altitude. If you dont have a CityVille Skies blimp toy, touch the virtual blimp on the screen with 2 fingers to play. Touch the blimp and watch the engines start as you take to the sky to start flying and completing your quests. Pilot your blimp over the cityscape to pick up passengers, transport building materials and more!If you have a CityVille Skies blimp toy, place it on your iPad screen. That will turn off impatient users.Toy meets iPad play experience.THIS APP WORKS WITH THE CITYVILLE SKIES BLIMP WHICH IS COMING TO STORES NEAR YOU SOON!Now you can explore CityVille from above! In CityVille Skies, you can use your blimp toy with your iPad to fly over your city and go on quests to help citizens. And whenever you do something that requires the use of Facebook resources, such as inviting a friend to the game, it takes a long, long time to load the screen. The game has to be frequently refreshed after it stalls. It has performance problems and I don’t know why. Normally, in games such as FarmVille, it takes hours or days before the crops can be harvested.īut Zynga had better be on alert as it scales this game even bigger. You can, for instance, plant some strawberries on a farm and reap the resources within five minutes. Zynga has also figured out ways to keep the engagement, or time spent per game session, higher. You can also generate more virtual revenue for your city by opening retail franchises in other cities. Or you can visit your friends’ cities to earn more resources. That helps generate revenue, since a small percentage of the players will go ahead and spend money. If you want to accelerate your progress and generate more inventory and energy, you can purchase it with real money. Every move you make in the game takes energy, and your stores need inventory to sell. The vision was to create a game that actually felt like you were controlling a city in real time.Īs I’ve played the game, it’s easy to see how Zynga hopes to generate revenue from it. A few were veterans like Skaggs, who previously worked at Electronic Arts. In an interview with VentureBeat, CityVille’s Mark Skaggs said the CityVille team was formed from scratch in the spring and that 95 percent of the team had never worked on a game before.
It thus appears to be more social and interactive than a lot of other Facebook games, where you generally play by yourself, taking one turn at a time. As you can tell from the screen shot, your friends can help you manage the city as well. Though the interactivity is limited in some ways, CityVille does a good job of creating the illusion of real-time play, where lots of things are happening on the screen at the same time. In the game, you can build a town with homes, shops, farms and community buildings.
Join gaming leaders live this October 25-26 in San Francisco to examine the next big opportunities within the gaming industry.ĬityVille passed FarmVille’s current monthly active user count of 58 million on Dec. The open questions are: What sort of social features will game makers devise next to enthrall users in new games this year? And when does the Facebook “growth effect” begin to plateau? But CityVille had a second force behind it: With Facebook’s reach still growing quickly, namely in Asia, CityVille’s growth comes on the back of an larger Facebook - which arguably helps grow games even faster. True, CityVille is merely an evolution from Frontierville, another Zynga game which has similar features. It’s a sign that social interaction - something that CityVille has on steroids, by not only tapping your friends, but encouraging you to help friends build out their own cities too - is still seeing new forms of innovation online. Who would have thought that a simple city simulation would become the biggest-ever app on Facebook, eclipsing FarmVille? Zynga‘s CityVille game crossed 84.2 million monthly active users over the weekend, beating Zynga’s FarmVille, which peaked at 83.76 million users in March, 2010, according to market analyst AppData. Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next.
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