The Ville Mod Clothing: Everything you need to know

by Brandy Shaul, Posted Sep 24th 2012 10:58PM

With the Ville's current "Mod" item theme may have allowed us to completely transform our homes, we're now being given the chance to do the same for our avatars, as Mod-themed clothing items are now available to purchase for both male and female avatars. As usual, we're here with a complete look at these new clothing items in the Ville, so let's get started!

Female Avatars

Mod Bob (Hair) - 6 Ville Cash
Pin-up Curls (Hair) - 8 Ville Cash
Beatnik Blouse Aqua - 3 Ville Cash
Beatnik Blouse Yellow - 3 Ville Cash
Aqua Leggings - 450 coins
Chartreuse Leggings - 450 coins
Starlet Cocktail Dress - 9 Ville Cash
Sleeveless A-Line Red - 21 Ville Cash
Mary Jane Red - 6 Ville Cash
Mary Jane White - 7 Ville Cash

Male Avatars

The Ringo (Hair) - 6 Ville Cash
The Rockabilly (Hair) - 11 Ville Cash
Daddio Button Down Blue - 600 coins
Daddio Button Down Red - 600 coins
Zoot Suit Blue - 15 Ville Cash
Zoot Suit Brown - 15 Ville Cash
Flight Lieutenant's Jacket - 6,000 coins
Zoot Hat Blue - 5 Ville Cash
Zoot Hat Brown - 5 Ville Cash

These items will be available for either 11 or 4 more days, depending on the item. If additional Mod / Groovy items are released in the future, we'll make sure to let you know.

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The Ville, SimCity Social, SongPop, Voxer and more on this week’s top 20 growing Facebook apps by MAU

Zynga’s The Ville comes in at the No. 1 spot on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. The game’s 2,629 percent gain suggests Zynga recently began an advertising campaign or some other promotion to support the title, which launched in late June.

Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 500,000 and 15.51 million MAU, based on our AppData tracking service.

Top Gainers This Week

Many of this week’s gainers were games and page tab applications, which for a while had been making fewer appearances in the top 20 gainers with the rise of Open Graph-enabled apps. Now page apps from Wooga are experiencing a resurgence, and some Open Graph apps are growing less rapidly than when they first launched.

Open Graph apps that made the list this week include No. 7 Instagram, No. 8 Spotify, No. 10 Yahoo! Social Bar, No. 11 Zoosk and No. 16 Glassdoor. Some games like The Ville and No. 3 SongPop also use Open Graph to publish custom stories to players’ Timelines.

No. 5 Voxer is a mobile walkie-talkie app that gained Facebook-connected users this week after recently releasing an update to the Apple App Store and Google Play.

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top weekly gainers by daily active users on Thursday, and the top emerging apps on Friday.

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The Ville: Head to the beach one last time with Caribbean Cool items

by Brandy Shaul, Posted Jul 23rd 2012 1:30AM

The Caribbean Cool item theme has been updated one final time in The Ville, giving you a chance to fill even more of your home will items in a tropical, summer theme. There are a few new pages of content available to purchase, and as usual, we're here with a complete look at the newly released items for your reference.

Calypso Living Chair Costs: 350 coinsHome Value: $385Pays Out: 50 Happiness
Sun Worshiper Towels Costs: 5 Ville CashHome Value: $2,200Pays Out: 50 coins, 16 Happiness
Super Surf Rider Costs: 43 Ville CashHome Value: $8,800Pays Out: 125 coins, 28 Happiness
Paradise Beach Bar Costs: 12,500 coinsHome Value: $13,750Pays Out: 75 coins, 20 Happiness
Sea Turtle Migration Costs: 3 Ville CashHome Value: $1,650
Tropical Fruit Drinks Costs: 975 coinsHome Value: $1,075
Caribbean Cooler Costs: 1,100 coinsHome Value: $1,210
Beach Box Radio Costs: 1,175 coinsHome Value: $1,295Pays Out: 50 coins, 16 Happiness
Bird of Paradise Plant Costs: 1,300 coinsHome Value: $1,430Pays Out: 75 coins
Seashell Collection Costs: 325 coinsHome Value: $360
Starfish Centerpiece Costs: 475 coinsHome Value: $525
Sunset Beach Towels Costs: 500 coinsHome Value: $550
Vertical Divider Costs: 600 coinsHome Value: $660
Ultimate Hanging Starfish Costs: 700 coinsHome Value: $770
Authentic Palm Frond Rug Costs: 2,000 coinsHome Value: $2,200
These items will only be available in the game's store for the next 10 days, while other Caribbean Cool items will expire much quicker than that. You'll probably need to play the game pretty regularly to earn all of the coins necessary to purchase the items you're interested in, so we wish you luck in earning enough to have them all!

What do you think of these newest (and final) Caribbean Cool items in The Ville? Sound off in the comments!

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Familiar Ville: a lushly-presented take on the pet care genre

Familiar Ville is a new Facebook-based pet care game from Korean developer Iustice, Inc. Despite its generic name, it’s worth checking out if only to see the striking difference made by deviating from the common, simple cartoon visual style which many Facebook games favor. Featuring lush, detailed backgrounds and a cast of memorable, quirky characters, the game makes a bold effort to set itself apart from its many competitors — at least in its aesthetic.

Familiar Ville puts players in control of a small house which will eventually become populated with a variety of pets and things for them to do. After choosing and naming a pet with which to start their collection, the player is led through a brief tutorial explaining the basic concepts of the game, which include how to generate food for pets and batteries to power the toys which entertain them. The training of pets to perform increasingly-complex tricks is also introduced, and within a few minutes the player is let loose in the house to begin managing their fledgling pet empire.

Familiar Ville requires players to keep track of quite a few things at once in order to be as successful as possible. Pets have both hunger and cleanliness statistics, which can be managed by feeding and bathing them. Feeding pets requires the production of food using food creator machines, while toys — the game’s primary source of income — require batteries in order to work. When pets play with a toy, the item becomes “charged” with coins which can then be collected, but at this point it must be recharged with additional batteries.

The game incorporates an unusual “combo” system to encourage players to time their collections carefully — collecting items which drop to the floor gradually fills a meter as the number collected in rapid succession increases. Upon reaching certain milestones, the player receives a bonus to the rewards they have collected, meaning that players with a wide variety of pets and income-producing items in their virtual home will be able to rack up some massive bonuses easily. The simple addition of this arcade-style feature adds an element of light strategy and timing to the game which is not seen in many other similar examples of the genre.

Where Familiar Ville really stands out is in the art and presentation. The game features detailed backdrops, animations and an unusual cast of characters delivering the various quests and challenges the player is presented with. Rather than the generic, dull characters seen in many other Facebook games, Iustice has taken the time to infuse each of these characters with visual distinctiveness and their own personality quirks. A likeable cast and good writing can be a strongly contributing factor in encouraging users to return after an initial “trial run” of the game.

The pet genre may be one of the most over-saturated categories on Facebook, but Familiar Ville is a solid game. At this time, there are not many items for players to purchase with hard currency, though players may also top up their soft currency reserves using Facebook Credits if they want to make quicker progress. With a wider variety of monetization strategies coupled with a strong drive for user acquisition through various channels, Familiar Ville has a lot of potential for success despite a slow start so far.

Familiar Ville has picked up just 600 monthly active users and 200 daily active users since its launch on February 20. To follow its progress, check out AppData, our traffic tracking service for social games and developers.

A good game that features some lovely presentation and gameplay innovations, but which is yet to prove it has the “legs” for long-term success.

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