Virtual allotment

[Jimmy]

I was looking a gaming consoles and they have all sorts of "virtual" applications such as "tennis", "rock band" etc.

Has anyone seen a virtual garden or allotment game ?

You could envisage a hoe where you can hoe your virtual onions.
Or even simulate the whole growing experience where depending on how you nurture your garden you get big veg or small veg.

You could even have competitions across the internet with other virtual gardeners.

So you could pass the cold winter months in you virutal allotment.

Jimmy

[Glutton4...]

Jimmy, you need to get a life!

Have you tried Bookface - they have virtual farms and all sorts of stuff - don't get hooked though, coz when spring gets here you won't want to do the real thing!

[pdblake]

My missus spends an awful lot of time of FaceAche playing something called FarmTown, sounds similar.

[Dane End Dolly]

my teenage niece, who has no interest in gardening or allotments or anything has a virtual farm on facebook and she visits her friends farms and they visit hers....kind of sad really

kx

[piskieinboots]

Has anyone seen a virtual garden or allotment game ?

*shudders

Gimme the real outdoors any day of the week

[Alison]

Why would you want to? I like the peace, quiet and fresh air of the real thing, plus exercise, being away from IT / phones etc and you can't eat virtual veg!

[Newbie]

Erm, not that i am a saddo on anything (honest, really) but there is a game called Viva Pinata (i have the p.c version but is available on xbox too) which is based on a farm plot that you renovate, plant flowers, veg, fruit, trees etc and is visited by little animals which you have to entice to stay on your farm & breed. Its quite sweet.

[Snadger]

That is sick!

(Although I suppose the vine is a virtual allotment?)

[binley100]

I tried Farmtown on FB everything died. You have to be on it constantly like my eldest is.

[chriscross1966]

I'm just waiting for the spade controller for the Wii to come out.......

[snakeshack]

my allotment is virtually covered in weeds does this get me on the high score board?

[bramble]

Has everybody lost the PLOT?

[Jeanied]

I think they have all gone stir crazy, not being able to get out there and on with the real work!

[HeyWayne]

I had a similar idea a while ago - I was thinking a bit more aggressively I think:

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tml#post513041

[maypril]

Has anyone seen a virtual garden or allotment game ?

I know of a few games loosely based around farming or growing things. I can't think of anything allotment based though:

Bushtarion - Farming themed web based war game
Colony - Classic ZX Spectrum Sci-Fi mushroom farming game (You'll need to install an emulator to play)
Farmville - Cutesy online Flash farming game that requires a Facebook account to play
Highgrow - Realtime marijuana growing simulator (PC only)