FrontierVille is a new Facebook game created by Zynga, designer of the most popular Facebook game, FarmVille. Similar to FarmVille, in FrontierVille you create your own property, grow crops and animals and add decor to your property. FrontierVille is set in the old west, and your goal is to build up a thriving homestead and start a family. You will tend to your crops and animals, clear the wilderness and build a small town. The game is comprised of a series of ongoing missions that help you achieve your goals in making your homestead prosper.
People who enjoy FarmVille will likely love this game. FrontierVille is a much more enjoyable game, and will likely overtake FarmVille in popularity before long.
How to Play
When you first login to FrontierVille, you will choose your avatar gender, features and clothing. You will then begin a couple of short tutorial missions that walk through the beginning game play. These include growing and harvesting crops, feeding animals, clearing the land and chopping wood. The photo to the right shows one of the Mission screens. As you complete each step, the step gets a green arrow. Once you've completed all of the tasks in the mission, you will immediately get the completed mission screen with your award for the mission. Missions are played throughout the entire game, and there are usually anywhere from 3-10 active missions at any given time.
You will be encouraged to add "neighbors" in order to continue with the game. Like most Facebook games, neighbors are an essential part of the game, so it is recommended to have at least 2-3 friends who also play the game to trade items and help complete missions. Part of the game involves going to your neighbors' properties and tending their crops and clearing trees and debris from their land.
From time to time you will need to go to the Market to purchase crops to plant, trees, buildings and decorations. You will also use the Market to purchase meals for "energy" that enable you to continue working your land.
In My Stuff which is a backpack icon, you will find your Inventory that you are holding, recent Gifts from friends, a Family Album of your FrontierVille family photos, your Badges for specific tasks, your current list of Missions and your Collections of items found in the game. These are traded in for items to use in the game.
FrontierVille Basic Tips for Daily Activities...
1. Install the to earn free horseshoes for the game and extra energy points every time you login to the game from the toolbar.
2. Harvest your largest yielding fruit and vegetables first so you can purchase more energy quicker.
3. You can collect a bonus daily from your home, wagon and any other buildings you've acquired. Collect the building bonuses immediately, as the collection clock resets at 24 hours from the time you collect.
4. Click on Today's Weather icon to the left of your Homestead name towards the bottom of the screen daily for the tip of the day and bonus.
5. Send gifts to your FrontierVille friends daily so that you have the chance to get gifts back to help you in the game.
6. Check your badges count to see how close you are to earning a badge so you can plan your energy expenditures around this.
FrontierVille Game Guides, Walkthroughs and Tips...
- Their guides are always helpful for games, and their excellent FrontierVille walkthrough guide includes helpful tips for playing the game as well as step by step guides for missions.
- This fan site for the game includes helpful guides and tips, and regular blogs about new missions and game play.
- Frontierville Info is another fan site that includes game tips and updates.
- Another game blog, this one regularly blogs about new additions to the game, strategies and more.
If You Like FrontierVille, You Might Like the Westward Games...
Westward is a series of games wherein you build a town in the Old West. Similar in concept to FrontierVille, in the Westward games you have missions to complete to advance throughout the game, increase your town size and meet your goals. There are four games in the series to date, the latest game is
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