{"id":15324,"date":"2011-11-04T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"zynga-goes-medieval-with-castleville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15324-zynga-goes-medieval-with-castleville","title":{"rendered":"Zynga goes medieval with CastleVille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20155-Facebook\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Facebook<\/a> games giant <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20175-Zynga\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Zynga<\/a> is getting medieval in a CastleVille title being released in the coming weeks for play with friends at the world&#8217;s leading social network.<\/p>\n<p>On the cusp of an initial public offering of stock, San Francisco-based Zynga is expanding its offerings and spicing up play.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/castleville_screenshot_358793259.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The game going live soon at facebook.com\/castleville invites players to become part of a cast of characters including a dragon slayer with a weakness for cupcakes, a lothario, and lovely maidens.<\/p>\n<p>Once players create animated proxies in CastleVille, they will set about making friends, vanquishing enemies, building realms, and dispelling a mysterious darkness cloaking the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are rebuilding a happy kingdom and out there is a gloomy land where people are lost and need to be brought back to the light,&#8221; Jackson said of the overarching story.<\/p>\n<p>The latest installment in a popular Zynga franchise that includes CityVille and FarmVille incorporates videogame console style exploration, role playing, and storylines into CastleVille.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the start of a design that looks like a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) for the mass market,&#8221; Zynga Dallas creative director Bill Jackson said while providing AFP an early look at CastleVille.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because it doesn&#8217;t insist you play on their time,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;You can play it on your time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: Sapa-AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/CASTLEVILLE4_287243306.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20120-CastleVille-medieval-times-from-Zynga\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Forum Link\"><strong>CastleVille &#8211; medieval times from Zynga<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online social gaming is getting swept back into the dark ages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}