

The game had 100,000 players on its launch day, making it Zynga's largest launch ever at the time of its release.

Development ĬityVille was announced November 18, 2010, but the launch date was moved to December to allow Zynga to make adjustments to the game. Players build roads and sidewalks to expand their current city out to the drawbridge, which connects the lakefront to the player’s city. CityVille Lakefront gives players more room to build, more buildings, and new challenges. In CityVille Lakefront, players can build a canal and a drawbridge at the same time.

In September 2012, Zynga began rolling out CityVille Lakefront, the biggest CityVille expansion to date, to players Level 25 or above. CityVille initially had 80 experience levels, which was increased to 90 experience levels and again to 200 experience levels. Players can also buy goods, sell goods (supplying goods to other players' cities if their business branches are in their cities), and produce their own goods by farming and shipping. The main task of the game is to complete goals, which can be seen on the top left corner of the screen and earn City Coins. Players can send other players gifts and help them in some of their goals. Points increase the amount of energy, experience level and coins bonuses available on a daily basis. The points provide the player with a free goods bonus and one or two heart requests with each reputation level-up. The player can also visit their neighbor's city and perform up to five different jobs every 12 hours. The energy points are replenished automatically at a constant rate of one energy every five minutes. The amount of energy available increases as the player gains in experience levels, up to a maximum of 30 or 38 with the dam addition and up to 47 with the addition of the wind farm. The city can grow with various tasks to be performed. Gameplay ĬityVille allows players to become the owner of a virtual city and to oversee its development into a large metropolis. Players had been given a notice when opening the game prior to the shutdown. It was closed down on February, 2013 just three months after the game's release.ĬityVille was shut down on April 30, 2015. Ī sequel, CityVille 2, was released in December 2012. CityVille is a defunct casual social city-building game developed by Zynga, and released in December 2010.
