Comments on: FarmVille in USA Today plus 21 million daily unique players

By: Mark Skaggs

Mark Skaggs — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:56:47 +0000

Sorry for the delay. It took about 5 weeks to create FarmVille by a team of roughly 10 people. Now there is a team of about 30 people working to maintain it.

By: Question

Question — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:06:12 +0000

kelley school of business at Indiana University. thanks!

By: Mark Skaggs

Mark Skaggs — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:57:16 +0000

Hi,

What’s Kelly SOB?

We created FV in 5 weeks. With social apps though, much of the work comes after release in terms of updates, bug fixes and scaling the servers.

We typically don’t share costs and revs, but I can tell you there is a large team working on the game every day of the week.

Thx,
Mark

By: Question

Question — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:04:09 +0000

Hi I’m doing a project for Kelley School of Business about Farmville. can you tell me how long it took to create the app? Also, how much does it cost to start up and maintain? Thanks a lot!

By: Mark Skaggs

Mark Skaggs — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:29:38 +0000

sure.

By: Polprav

Polprav — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:00:35 +0000

Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?