For this week’s blog I chose the game “Farm Town”, it can be found through Face Book. Farm Town gives people communicating on Face Book an opportunity to play in this virtual institution/world, where you are in a sense yourself but playing through this sort of cartoon Avatar. What is interesting about Farm Town is that anyone on your “Friends list” can come join you on your own virtual farm. I have not played the game myself, but almost everyone at my work plays atleast once a day and even on lunch breaks. It has gotten so bizarre I can not tell when they are talking about reality or this video game. When they talk about any new additions made to their farm they have this creepy twinkle in their eye, it is real stuff to them. The game setting is a flat Isometric perspective, very similar to the original Zelda game most of us are familiar with. When you start the game you will have the opportunity to plow, plant, rake, water, harvest and even clean up tornado wreckage on other player’s farms in order to earn points and advance to the next levels where you can purchase different seeds and flowers to plant and sell. You can customize your farm with ponds, livestock, fences, houses, and waterfalls, the possibilities are endless! What makes this game so addicting is that you have a huge list of things you could purchase with enough points. For example, if you wanted to upgrade to a mansion, you would have to exceed a certain level to qualify, and earn enough points to purchase it. This game depicts the ultimate virtual reality, where you can live through your “avatar” and accomplish this never ending sense of wealth that is not possible in reality.