The Crunchies Awards is an annual competition for startups, internet, and technology innovations of the year. The 2009 awards were held last Friday, 8 January 2010 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco. Guess who won the Best Social App award? FarmVille!
FarmVille competed with
- Aardvark (http://www.vark.com)
- Brizzly (http://www.brizzly.com)
- DailyBooth (http://www.dailybooth.com) – runner-up
- SocialVibe (http://www.socialvibe.com)
- StockTwits (http://www.stocktwits.com)
FarmVille is Zynga’s top Facebook game, followed by Mafia Wars, CafeWorld, FishVille, and Zynga Poker. Currently, this game has over 73 million monthly active users in Facebook, alone. The game is popular to those between 18 and 35 years old, although there are those who are already in the 50s and older who still play the game.
This Facebook app is played all over the world. Below is the ranking based on the number of users from different countries:
- USA
- Turkey
- Philippines
- United Kingdom
- Italy
- Canada
A new feature of the game is being able to feed the chickens in the player’s neighbors’ coops. Doing this earns the player 4 coins and 1 experience point. After feeding, the chickens then lay an egg. If it is a mystery egg, the player can post it on their wall and friends can claim the egg and open the mystery eggs to get a mystery item.
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