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What do you mean by "game loop"? Surely something like Farmville has some gameplay elements, right? I've never played it, but there are some choices to be made

• davidtyleryork 15y ago
  Yeah, of course, but the gameplay is largely cyclical and repeated
• Androsynth 15y ago
  this is what I meant by game loop: http://whatgamesare.com/2010/12/functions-vs-loops-finding-fun.html http://whatgamesare.com/2010/12/functions-vs-loops-finding-f... 'strong game loop' was vague, what I meant was what I said in the last sentence, that you can enjoy playing a traditional game without rewards. It is fun to play on its own merit. If you take away the rewards from a social game, it can't stand up on it's own as a 'fun game'. In Farmville, there are gameplay elements, but its very minimal. In Cow Clicker, another social game, there are no game mechanics at all. There are some 'hardcore' social game companies, like Kabam, but they end up just having more elaborate reward feedback mechanisms.