FARMVILLE-Playing for ideas

There is very popular videogame that can help us to think how to organize our neghborhood. You'll probably will know about this game because it's the most played in Facebook.It's Farmville!

The goal of Farmville game is to drive a virtual farm in which you can plant tree and crops or raising animals. Yoir friends are your "neighbors". The neighbors can help and visit the other farms. For example, when someone goes on holiday somewhere he has no internet he could ask some "neighbor" to take care of his farm.Moreover you're also able to give presents to your friends. So,there is an important feeling of communty in this game, what is quite important in our project.

When hardworkers farmers complete some task, they rewarded with ribbons of different colours. The colour depend on the task done(help a number of neighbors, a determined amount of harvest, etc). Therefore, we can also take into account the idea of reward our neighbors in same way.

In the Farmville community exist money, but it's only valid in Farmville. We have the Farm coins and the Farm cash and it's obtained by getting ribbons or doing tasks. Also you can get Farm cash by using your credit card!!Perhaps we can think about a particular money in our shelter!

It's funny how the Internet and a simple and innocent game can inspire us!

Jesús Lloredo Fernández , Felipe De Lima , Palantas Panagiotis , Rita Franca