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  • #1

    Virtual allotment

    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
    Expect the worst in life and you will probably have under estimated!
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    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!
    All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
    Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.

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    • #3
      My missus spends an awful lot of time of FaceAche playing something called FarmTown, sounds similar.
      Urban Escape Blog

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      • #4
        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

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Jimmy View Post
          Has anyone seen a virtual garden or allotment game ?
          *shudders

          Gimme the real outdoors any day of the week
          aka
          Suzie

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          • #6
            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!

            Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

            Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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            • #7
              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.
              Last edited by Newbie; 25-01-2010, 08:57 PM.
              Jane,
              keen but (slightly less) clueless
              http://janesvegpatch.blogspot.com

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              • #8
                That is sick!

                (Although I suppose the vine is a virtual allotment?)
                My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                Diversify & prosper


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                • #9
                  I tried Farmtown on FB everything died. You have to be on it constantly like my eldest is.
                  S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                  a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                  You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                  • #10
                    I'm just waiting for the spade controller for the Wii to come out.......

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                    • #11
                      my allotment is virtually covered in weeds does this get me on the high score board?
                      don't be afraid to innovate and try new things
                      remember.........only the dead fish go with the flow

                      Another certified member of the Nutters club

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                      • #12
                        Has everybody lost the PLOT?

                        And when your back stops aching,
                        And your hands begin to harden.
                        You will find yourself a partner,
                        In the glory of the garden.

                        Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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                        • #13
                          I think they have all gone stir crazy, not being able to get out there and on with the real work!
                          Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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                          • #14
                            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
                            A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

                            BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

                            Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

                            What would Vedder do?

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Jimmy View Post
                              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)
                              Last edited by maypril; 27-01-2010, 07:54 PM. Reason: Corrected typo in web address

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