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FarmVille VP of Product Development Mark Skaggs on Time-Based Gameplay
Mark Skaggs, the Vice President of Product Development for Zynga speaks about the time-based gameplay of FarmVille.
He says that “In the world of farming you know that crops will take time to grow” so they made various timed crops while keeping lifestyle and farming preferences in mind. In other words, some farmers like to farm as soon as they wake up and plant their crops, knowing that they will harvest after work, others prefer one day or more crops because that is all the time that they can devote to farming. Having different time frames for each crops, allows farmers to choose which crops work best for them.
When deciding on “the wither mechanic” FarmVille developers found that when plants actually wither and turn brown it is disappointing but not as bad as animals “dying” like in FishVille, which is why FarmVille animals do not die, they just “run away” like FarmVille Dogs.
Watch the video above for more details.
Which timed crops do you like to plant the most? Which crops work best for your farming lifestyle?
Tags: farmville freak, farmville.com, farmvillefreak.com, mark skaggs, time-based gaming, vp of product development
Posted on May 28th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Just in case anyone missed it. I checked and Channel Zero has updated the Wild Mustang status.
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–UPDATE 2 – PLEASE READ: The Wild Mustang feature has been reactivated for all players. Thank you for your patience while our developers working on fixing the technical issues that were present.–
Posted on May 28th, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Hiya
I have lost my mustang i didnt get to send any e mail,s
the game as usual went out out of sync and now i,m out of time
what do i do please
xxxx
Posted on May 28th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
why is just some seeing the wild mustang i would love to have one please
Posted on May 28th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
If the Mustang appeared on my farm but I accidentally clicked “cancel” in confusion…will I ever get the pop up again after I updated my email?
Posted on May 28th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
I just want to know how to get in touch with somebody that is over support..For 5 weeks tomorrow, my neighbors ladder won’t load , I can’t join any co-ops because of this. I have sent and recieved numerous emails from support but no fix is completed. Still getting OOS issues too. I’m at a lost what to do. My boyfriend’s farm loads perfect on the same computer . Can someone help me ?? PLEASE!!
Posted on May 28th, 2010 at 11:41 pm
I still have not got the chance to get a Mustang so so much for it being reactivated
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 12:35 am
I’ve had the option for the Mustang twice and every darn time it say – out of sync!!! I get so tired of this crap!
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 12:59 am
I need 20 hour crops.
difficult to manage farm + stables + coops + gifts + fretilizing + wandering animals + nursery bars + dairy farms + market etc with 23 hour crop on weekday
Or maybe the day could be of 22 hours
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 1:35 am
I like the one-day crops usually. When the crops are ready before I start work, I’ll plant something that grows over four or six hours and then after work I harvest and plant a one-day crop. Then, when I take off for the weekend to visit my son in Vegas, I plant a four-day crop. I love having the ability to time my crops around my life instead of timing my life around my crops.
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 2:04 am
i got 2 mustangs in my gift box
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 2:09 am
JUST GOT THE WEDDING TENT!!! WAS I THE FIRST????
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 2:11 am
i got one, too. maybe this is where the wedding cake will come from??
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 2:13 am
mystery person got it too, says that i was invited to a party
finally i am the first to get something! 
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 2:18 am
LOL Ferdy how do you know that i didn’t actually get it before YOU
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 2:18 am
how about we say we both tied?
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 2:33 am
i got the wedding tent too.. and a few other friends.. more begging from farmville neighbors again!
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 3:04 am
Hmm i got some gifts for the new tuscan wedding, but got an error, that some things get lost while transfer to my computer was busy, so i cant accept gifts or give them back again
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 5:36 am
Mustang may be back but it’s still not working. That’s the 2nd time I had no way to notify/email neighbors.
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 6:53 am
got it
and the offer too @mysteryperson
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 11:27 am
Spent 2 hours enhancing my farm, getting gifts like the gazebo and wedding tent, and it went out of sync and everything went back to the way it was 2 hours before.
I lost all the gifts and changes I made. Thought it would go back this morning but no.
Need to know if I should wait around and it will fix itself or do I start all over again??? Someone please let me know!!!! I am so bummed!!!
Posted on May 29th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
I accedentlt clicked cancel when the Mustang link came up – how do I get it back?