Chinese Developers Move Up as FarmVille hit 50M This Week

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Eric Eldon• Sep 28th, 2009

Business, international, Metrics, Social Games

FarmVille, a virtual farming game from Zynga, inspired by an earlier China-based version, has reached 50 million monthly active users this past week, having gained 4.21 million new players. Meanwhile, our AppData service shows Chinese developers gaining some of the most new users among the top 20 fastest-growing games on Facebook.

Silicon Valley and Chinese gaming platforms, companies and gamers are, in their own ways, coming together like never before. Indeed, number 12 on the list is 開心農場, or “Happy Farm,” made by ELEX — apparently also a Chinese-language virtual farming game patterned after earlier, China-based Happy Farm games.

My Fishbowl, a multi-language but apparently mostly Chinese-language virtual aquarium game made by AppSphere Inc, gained 891,000 new users over the past week, to reach 4.19 million monthly actives. It came in at number five. It was followed by Animal Paradise, from Beijing-based Rekoo, with 726,000 new users and 2.77 million monthly actives.

Top Gainers This Week

		Name	MAU	Gain	Gain, %	Developer
1.		FarmVille	50,256,546	+4,208,109	+9.1	Zynga
2.		YoVille	17,599,013	+1,307,056	+8.0	Zynga
3.		Mafia Wars	25,455,588	+1,216,548	+5.0	Zynga
4.		Restaurant City	15,347,048	+987,371	+6.9	Playfish
5.		My Fishbowl	4,192,713	+890,601	+27.0	TwoFishes Interactive
6.		Animal Paradise	2,769,097	+725,817	+35.5	Rekoo
7.		Pet Society	18,374,195	+704,639	+4.0	Playfish
8.		(Lil) Farm Life	3,782,228	+649,829	+20.8	Greenpatch Inc
9.		Your Indian Name!	4,771,891	+639,565	+15.5	AppSphere Inc.
10.		Country Story	6,760,500	+553,058	+8.9	Playfish
11.		Texas HoldEm Poker	17,670,843	+471,189	+2.7	Zynga
12.		開心農場	3,131,221	+452,323	+16.9	ELEX
13.		Sorority Life	6,441,195	+281,806	+4.6	Playdom
14.		Friends For Sale!	6,212,477	+274,837	+4.6	Serious Business
15.		Mobsters 2: Vendetta	2,641,419	+218,963	+9.0	Playdom
16.		Brain Buddies	5,101,766	+214,145	+4.4	wooga – world of gaming
17.		Bejeweled Blitz	7,535,752	+208,061	+2.8	Popcap Games
18.		Quiztastic!	558,042	+199,936	+55.8	Playfish
19.		Vampire Wars	3,703,826	+195,758	+5.6	Zynga
20.		Tattoodle	5,221,083	+188,144	+3.7	Make The Web Better

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