So what is FishVille? It’s a game where you raise a fish, feed them and help decorate the tank which they live in. It’s similar to many of the other games like FarmVille, Cafe World, and Roller Coaster Kingdom, however in this one you are simply taking care of a fish tank. As you raise fish you can sell them to earn coins and experience. Honestly, it uses a similar format to all of Zynga’s other games which means the company could reuse a lot of the code from their other games.
Before giving out a tip or two, what is Fishville? Fishville is the latest Facebook game from Zynga! After the smashing success of Farmville, a game where you create and maintain a farm, Zynga has introduced another game which has a lot of potential of being another winner.
Some say that this game is like an underwater Farmville. But in my opinion, this game is more like Tamagochi (remember the small pocket-size gadget kids of the 90s where crazy with??) where you need to make sure you feed your fish every now and then.
In this game you simply grow fish, feed them, and then purchase items for your fish tank. Then come back once in a while to see how your tank is doing. Just like all the other games on Facebook, this one is passive so that you can check in a couple times a day rather than sit and play it non-stop. While I haven’t spent a lot of time playing this game, I’m sure that Zynga is actively tracking user metrics to ensure that this game is just as sticky as their other ones.
Now on to some tips. Like in Farmville, if you do not harvest your crops in time, they will wither and die. The same is true with Fishville. If you do not feed your fish with food, they will die. What you need to be careful of is that you need to know when you need to feed your fish. There are those that takes hours before you need to feed them and there are those that only takes minutes. If you got some fish that needs feeding every few minutes, then you need to be vigilant in feeding them or else they die which happened to me a lot of times.
If it turns out to be a hit (which it probably will be), Zynga should blow past 200 million monthly active users, far outstripping any of the other competition on the Facebook Platform. If you want to spend your time building a virtual fish tank, go check out FishVille. Also check out Inside Social Games who first broke the news of this application.
Another good tip would be to find neighbors as soon as possible. Like Farmville, you need them to unlock some items. I haven’t fully played Fishville yet but I am sure that your neighbors can help you take care of your fish like how you can take care of your neighbor’s farm in Farmville.
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