CastleVille Happiness Meter

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Start inviting your friends now to like the fan page of Castleville in Facebook and help unlock items for everyone.

Notice the tab for CastleVille Happiness if you will visit their fanpage at Facebook.com/castleville. Join Zynga promo, which goes like this. Join the 5 million people who like the page, for Zynga will give cool freebies for them all including the others who requested for a gift.

These are the prizes: Expansion gem, Hyper Craft, Castle Topiary, Archery target, Fountain, Good Morning Glories, Cannon and Silver Queen Statue.

Before you can unlock and accept gifts, each gift should have specific numbers of likes. Currently, the Archery Target, Hyper Craft and Expansion Gem were already unlocked and can be requested as gift because of the 700,000 likes. We just need 4 million and 300,000 likes to unlock the Cannon which needs 5 million. These items are for game use but it hasn’t formally announced what is their function. Castleville will surely hit its 5 million likes, since other ville franchise series already have their more than 5 million players.

Watch out CastleVille now and check if it reaches the 5 million, who knows you’ll be the first one who can accept the gifts on the Happiness Meter.  Once game is on live, surely you can see them on your inventory.

Here’s the nicest part of it! If you love doing charity, cast your vote now for the charity giving of Zynga which is either education or for clean water disaster relief. The charity with the largest part of votes wins. So vote for your choice now!

CastleVille Trailer

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Watch out for the official CastleVille trailer on YouTube posted lately by Zynga. It is an advertisement for introducing some of the fascinating characters that you’ll see on the game when it goes live. Focus development for the characters has been done to add more hints of who they are. Examples are Gisselle turns to Yvette and Rafael who is previously Antonio.

The start of the story goes like this….You’ll hear a classic voice from the narrator telling a story about a beautiful land where happiness resides. The first character will be introduced is Tom who is the Dragon slayer and a Cupcake slayer as well. He was caught eating cupcake which is all over his moustache.  Next is the Miner, George. He digs dinosaur’s skeleton showing off to Sonja. Another is Rafael; he drives girls (Yvette and Sonja) like they were in a roller coaster just by showing his chest to them, a comical move. And for the girls, Sonja the Gold Digger, she’s a pirate who spent her lifetime in shores but now George, his Teddy bear came. Lastly is Yvette, the beautiful maiden yet so lonely. There’s just a lot of information you want to check too about all CastleVille Characters.

See for yourself all the different characters screenshots and interior looks of the castles which even include the fireworks. Before it ends, it shows the good and bad side of the story revealing more intriguing characters.

CastleVille Developer Interviews

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Excitement and curiosity comes along with this new game of Zynga, CastleVille. Developers have been interviewed to get some visions on how things are working.

 

First is the Audio Director of Castleville, Stephen Rippy. He is in charge of the every sound we hear in the game. The sounds from the background and the effects of the tasks done by the characters are all his responsibilities. He just loves music and games. He is part of the developers group for the Age of Empire created back in year 1997. He has its own favorite character which is Goblin because of its voice, from the game Yar’s Revenge of the Atari. He likes the buzz of space creatures in here.

 

Next is the Lead designer of Castleville, Dave Pottinger. He had to make content and system designs work together to make the theme successful. His objective is to effectively implement game rules, the scenarios and content designs. He works together with Stephen Rippy in the making of Age of Empires. And discover that he fits for this kind of industry, which is gaming industry. About the game, he said these following statements for your intuitions. “We have hidden a lot of tidbits and hints throughout the quests. Pay attention and you might just figure out some of the mysteries before your friends do!” Tom is his favorite character because he is simply valiant and the personality of marrying the right girl he’ll find.

Lastly, the interview for Creative Director of Zynga Dallas, Bill Jackson, he talked about the storyline and goals of the game. He said that Castleville have lots of mysteries within aside from the expansion task.

CastleVille Characters

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CastleVille is introducing their NPCs short for non-player characters. As the term called itself non-player, these are characters with personalities and history but controlled by computers and not a real life characters. You’ll meet them in game which along the way, while interacting them, you will get to know them and often it is good to listen to them not just by skipping them to have an idea in advance for the storyline of the game. Because CastleVille is much like a fairy tale game, these characters will be a big part of your success. We haven’t learned much about them, since the game hasn’t yet to release, but here are a few tidbits we’ve learned from reading interviews with the game developers and watching some of the CastleVille videos available on YouTube, which are also available to this site. You’ll get interact with them in the game, but let’s have a glimps of who they are.
Yvette, the most prominent character that you will meet in the game, she is the Maiden – the Princess. She loves singing with her beautiful voice, she’s the one with a gold long hair like Rapunzel.
Rafael, a prince type looking guy with his charming character, he always want to have some adventure.
Sonja, a Gold Digger because she always wants to find treasure, well that’s Pirate does anyway. She has a mysterious personality, but a beautiful girl.


George, a very kind and friendly Miner, from what we heard, George is trying his best to capture the heart of Sonja.
Tom, who is a Dragon Slayer, he’s thinking of letting go of his fearless and adventurous life and settle down.
Will these characters find true love in the game? Let’s find out.

CastleVille Coming Very Soon

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Facebook gamers are eagerly awaiting several new game releases, one of the most anticipated being CastleVille, the latest installment in Zynga’s “ville” franchise, which began with FarmVille and continued with FishVille, FrontierVille, and CityVille. No release date for CastleVille has been announced, but the company provided several sneak peeks and created a Facebook page to showcase some of the screenshots and interviews with the team that built it. Although CastleVille will build upon concepts that most Facebook gamers will already be very familiar with, it’s grander in scale and will introduce many more traditional fantasy and roleplaying elements to the world of social games.

Much of the gameplay and mechanics remain a secret, but here’s what the company has revealed so far. You can build your castle in a fantasy medieval world, show it to your friends, and craft things like potions or armor. Another major feature of the game is the storyline, which is an integral part of the experience. You can trade and barter with friends by visiting their towns. No fantasy or medieval game is complete without combat, and there will be plenty of bad guys to fight. All sorts of beasties live outside of your castle and you and your friends will have to beat the back to expand your kingdom. There is lots of exploration in the game and the storyline is customized based on the actions you take. A lot of the game is driven through your interactions with the main characters. Your goal will be to make them happy and then unlock new interactions. Your kingdom represents a beacon of happiness, and outside your borders lies what’s known as the “gloom,” an area of unhappiness and misfortune that you try to conquer.

A significant departure from the standard “Ville” games is that interactions with non-player characters will become very important and you’ll need to interact with many of them. One character you’ll meet is George the friendly miner and one of the others is is Tom, an old knight who will help you on your quests. And no fairy-tale would be complete without a beautiful princess. In CastleVille, that’s Giselle. Although characters have been introduced in many social games before, they’re usually used only as part of the tutorial or as a proxy “friend” and ultimately, you don’t interact with them that much. In CastleVille, interacting with the different characters will be an integral part of the game.

And it wouldn’t be a Facebook game without a lot of social elements. Friends will be able to assist in building and decorating your castle, and you’ll be able to show off your progress. The ability to trade and swap items is a huge part of the game. Another new feature will be crafting. You will be able to make special items to use for your own needs or to share with friends. There are lots of beasties to fight in the game, and you’ll need the help of your friends to defeat some of the bigger and nastier meanies in the game.

The game will adapt and change based on the decisions you make while playing. Self-expression, storytelling and the narrative will all be a key aspect of the game. The game is a very ambitious product with lots of quality artwork and polish never before seen in a social game on Facebook.

If you’ve been bored with all the copycat games on Facebook as of late, get ready for a new and wonderful adventure with CastleVille.

Welcome!

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The newest game of Zyngra this October, 2011 is CastleVille, the game is not just space that you’re going to expand out to – it has mysteries in it. There are things to uncover, and when you uncover them, that helps inform everything else: how you can be social, what the story will be, and ultimately, how you can express yourself. It’s really exciting to see what’s around the corner, and that’s the new element from all the other Ville games. You will find all the guides here in CastleVilleSecrets.org. So watch out!