Deny it all you want, but tons of your Facebook friends tap into the world of Zynga's 'ville' games every day. Whether they're asking you to join them for rewards, or hiding their every movement by deleting errant status updates, the games enjoy an undeniably huge-and-growing player base. If you've spent any time in the ol' West of, you're familiar with the click-fest that thrives on user interest in mini-stories and building up a home base. But for the next step in the game world, Zynga's releasing Pioneer Trail - a new game that builds and expands on the items, rewards and ideas initially presented in homestead.Your+wagon+marks+your+progress. Billed as a brand new game by, Pioneer Trail launches from within FrontierVille via a newfound 'Travel' button.

You can bring all your resources along for the trip down Pioneer Trail, and once you wrap up the story you'll bring home all your spoils as well. But the main focus of the game centers upon new mechanics that change up the experience significantly. If you enjoyed the story elements of FrontierVille rather than simply hoarding mountains of wildflowers and animal manure, you'll enjoy the jump into Pioneer Trail's world. Kicked off by a kidnapping of a young boy, you'll work your way through four different maps that dwarf any version of your homestead.

Zynga to Shutter Six Games – Including Pioneer Trail Following its CityVille closure announcement, Zynga has revealed six more games will close this Spring. 《Pioneer Trail》是Zynga当前游戏《FrontierVille》的后篇，但与Zynga之前的游戏不同，《Pioneer Trail》将游戏中好友的数量限制在3名以下。 通常，Zynga的策略是让玩家尽可能多的邀请好友，这样就可以尽可能多地吸引用户。.

You're free to clear the lands as you see fit, but that's not the point. The mission of the Trail centers upon recovering the boy while taking part in the adventure offered along the way. During your jaunt down the trail, you can team up with three different classes; taking inspiration from classics like Oregon Trail, only your hunter can collect meat, only your carpenter can make repairs, and only the doctor can collect plants.

You can invite your friends to play these roles in order to bankroll huge energy boosts, or simply play with mindless avatars you can control yourself – the only difference being the drop in turns. Without friends, the whole process takes longer.There's+plenty+to+do+along+the+way. A quest-filled wilderness gradual unfolds as your wagon slowly progresses from one side of the map to the other. All new art assets and landscapes become available for purchase for use on your homestead in FrontierVille (your property's missing a mountain, right?). From the short glimpse of the new quests, and the continued dedication to lots of clicks and lots of rewards, Pioneer Trail has come together quite nicely.

Stretch your fingers, you're going to need to click a lot. Pioneer Trail will launch at any moment so keep your eyes on FrontierVille for the green light.

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By 2011-08-12 15:02:01 UTCSocial gaming juggernaut will flip the switch later today on The Pioneer Trail, a new social adventure game within.Unlike all of Zynga's previous games, Pioneer Trail is a linear adventure with a set beginning and end. Users outfit a wagon and traverse not one, but three different maps with their own unique set of missions and achievements. It also places an emphasis on a storyline where users get to choose their own adventure.FrontierVille general manager John Osvald explained to Mashable that Zynga wanted to use different social gaming mechanics for this extension of the FrontierVille franchise. In FarmVille, and Zynga's other social games, gameplay improves as users add more friends as neighbors or allies. In Pioneer Trail, that concept is discarded.

Instead, the game only lets users travel the trail with three of their closest friends, which Zynga hopes will result in more intimate gameplay.For users who can't find three friends to join them in Pioneer Trail, Zynga will soon roll out a feature for matching them with existing players. Users can also add computer characters to their team, though the game will progress slower without having friends constantly playing. Osvald says that the typical game will take approximately three weeks to complete, although one set of power users were able to beat the game in 36 hours.The game features a journey through three separate maps: Beaver Valley, High Plains and Avalanche Pass. Each area has an expansive map that is five times the size of any previous Zynga game, and each one has distinct art. Trekking through each area requires cutting down trees, acquiring Trail Points and helping people along the way. Each friend is given a distinct skill set (doctor, hunter, etc.), all of which are essential to surviving the trail without succumbing to illness or a broken wagon.Once a team completes the game and reaches Fort Courage (the game's finish line), users can transfer the prize tickets and resources they earn to their FrontierVille town.

Users are scored on how well they played the game (based on the decisions they made, how efficiently they traveled the trail, etc). If users aren't satisfied with their score, they have the option to travel the trail again. Users can spend the points they earned on previous Pioneer Trail trips on bigger wagons and more resources, making the game easier to complete the second or third time around.Zynga has been experimenting with new types of game mechanics as its approaches. Although the and has been profitable since 2010, it hasn't been able to surpass 236 million active users in the past 12 months. The company is hoping that new games like Pioneer Trail will help the company attract those new users.Check out the screenshots below and let us know in the comments what you think of Pioneer Trail.

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