Comments on: Five Minutes Adapts Popular Chinese Social Game Happy Farm for Facebook

By: Social Gaming Roundup: Booyah, Kwedit, Capcom, & More

Social Gaming Roundup: Booyah, Kwedit, Capcom, & More — Sat, 08 May 2010 19:46:54 +0000

[...] in both China and the U.S. at approximately the same time in 2008 with Five Minutes’ Happy Farm and Take(5)Social’s (playSocial’s) [...]

By: Chinese Developer Five Minutes Follows Up on Farming Hit with Happy Farm 2

Chinese Developer Five Minutes Follows Up on Farming Hit with Happy Farm 2 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:35:06 +0000

[...] developer Five Minutes brought its popular farming application, Happy Farm to Facebook, one of many developers from the country that has pushed on to Facebook. The game has [...]

By: China: Virtual Goods Are Big, Social Games Are Still Growing

China: Virtual Goods Are Big, Social Games Are Still Growing — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:51:41 +0000

[...] Virtual goods are a maturing multi-billion dollar industry in China, but we believe virtual goods in social games are just beginning their takeoff. Happy Farm by Chinese developer Five Minutes is China’s most popular social game, and is seeing around 23 million daily active uniques (DAU is the number of users who log in within a single 24 hour period, and currently the most accurate indicator of users’ engagement with a given application). Five Minutes’ Happy Farm is syndicated across RenRen-Kaixin, and 51.com, a few of China’s biggest social networks. As of mid-2009, the game is even on Facebook. [...]

By: John Smoen

John Smoen — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:18:48 +0000

Could somebody post the URLs of Five Minutes corporate website and ELEX corporate website? Thanks a lot in advance!

By: Chinese Developers Move Up as FarmVille hit 50M This Week

Chinese Developers Move Up as FarmVille hit 50M This Week — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:00:34 +0000

[...] Farm,” made by ELEX — apparently also a Chinese-language virtual farming game patterned after earlier, China-based Happy Farm [...]

By: FooPets Moves to Asia

FooPets Moves to Asia — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:02:28 +0000

[...] many social games and apps have drifted to the U.S. from Asia (farming games such as Happy Farm, for example), it looks like a hint of the reverse has occurred recently. California-based social [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:06:21 +0000

“… takes away from player creativity and the freedom to create customized virtual spaces.”

A reflection of the socio-political climate from which the game was made?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:12:25 +0000

I wonder how successfully a Farm Town clone can transfer to the Chinese market? That is interesting that farming games have been popular there for a while, but considering the enthusiasm of the Chinese for gaming, I can understand it.

By: Albert Lai

Albert Lai — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:10:36 +0000

We’re happy to say, Happy Farm is also a Happy Kontagent Social Analytics customer. =)

Go Season (cofounder) & The 5 Mins Team!

I’d also encourage game devs to look east for ideas/learnings… there are a ton of multi-billion dollar online game companies in China that are moving towards this space.

Changyou.com (chinese online game company…) was the #1 IPO on the Nasdaq this year, up 170% with 250M in revenues, 150M EBITDA, $2B market cap.

You’ve gotta figure there’s some talented game developers that are being spun off of companies like Changyou, Giant (multi-billion dollar market cap game company) and others…

By: Facebook Traffic from China Drops by Half in the Last Month

Facebook Traffic from China Drops by Half in the Last Month — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:44:11 +0000

[...] that isn’t stopping some Chinese developers and investors from moving on to the Facebook Platform to reach new users in the [...]