Another firm attracting attention is Zynga, which makes wildly popular social games, such as FarmVille (see picture) and CityVille.

另一家受人瞩目的公司是Zynga，它制作的Farm Ville、CityVille等社交游戏极受欢迎(下图为Farm Ville)。

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The thing with games like "Angry Birds," "Cut the Rope" and social games like "Farmville" and "Cityville" is that they're amazingly accessible.

《愤怒的小鸟》《割绳子》还有社交网络游戏《开心农场》《城市小镇》等这类游戏的共同点就是，你可以随时随地进行玩乐。

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That's when I wrote a story about Yick Kai-Chan, the game's resident architect who spent over 12 years designing buildings in the real world but now designs all the virtual buildings in CityVille.

当时我还写了一篇关于设计师陈音凯（音）的文章。这位设计师花了超过12年的时间设计真实世界里的建筑，不过现在，他却在为“城市小镇”设计虚拟住宅。

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He says that daily active users fell 18% for Farmville and 25% for Cityville.

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Given the proven success of Cityville, SimCity Social has a good shot at doing that again.

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Skaggs helped to create Zynga games CityVille, FarmVille and Treasure Isle, according to his LinkedIn profile.

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