FarmVille is a farming social network game developed by Zynga. It is a clone of Farm Town,[2][3] and is similar to older games such as Harvest Moon.[4] Gameplay involving various aspects of farm management such as plowing land, planting, growing and harvesting crops, harvesting trees and bushes, and by raising livestock.[5]
It is available as an Adobe Flash application via the social-networking website Facebook and Microsoft's MSN Games,[6] and as an app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It is currently the most popular application on Facebook,[7] with ten percent of all users playing.[8][9] The game is a freemium game, meaning there is no cost to play but players have the option of purchasing premium content.