The need for nature?
by flowernelly on Jan.17, 2010, under Blog
I have to admit: yes, I am part of the reason why farmville has become the most popular facebook app in 2009.
But to my defense I have to say, that I only do this for decorative reasons, not for making “cash”.
It gives me the opportunity to make pixel art within a game that was designed for other purposes.
Nevertheless I see many friends having large farms full of rice, roses or wheat along with all sorts of animals
(elefants on a farm? Sometimes it does seem as if the developers were taking a lot of colorfull pills…) and trees.
Why a FARMING GAME? Ok, I would not be wondering if we were living in Japan, playing Cooking Mama or Harvest Moon.
But the rest of the world is not known to be a great fan of such kind of games.
Farmville might have opened the gate for them maybe (and I would be grateful for that), but I wonder, if it also is a sign,
that many of us would prefer having an own garden where they could be independet from the (partly horrible) fruits and vegetables from the supermarket? Is there a need for more nature, more green, more fresh air?
Some kind of unconscious thinking, that it would be better if we all became a little more self sufficient?
But then of course everybody falls back into their everyday life, rather spending their time with a virtual tomatoe than a real one.
Maybe some day…
I would like the thought of swaping vegetables with neighbours in reality. Send me a chicken.
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January 18th, 2010 on 09:31
Yes, I can also see this relation. It’s also the phenomenon of building something, of seeding, of creating something, of spending life.
Humans have always been connected to farming, for thousands, maybe millions of years. You could say, that living in cities and never seing nature is a quite new phenomenon, so why would people change so much.
I myself am not part of the farmville world, I’m rather planting real tomatoes on my balcony
January 18th, 2010 on 10:24
Patrick, you a very right! Probably it is the longing for “going back where we came from”.
I actually think that this is some weird sign of mental health somehow.
Well, we have both, real tomatoes (that cover up all our window although they were said to me petit size…) and farmville.
Though I will never be able to eat pixels.