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Surprised? I was too when I first realized that I couldn’t seem to stop playing this game. I had fallen head first into a trap that I constantly made fun of my friends for getting stuck in. It was funny at first, but now I don’t know if I can get out of it. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, except I realized the other day that I wasn’t having much fun anymore. I was getting frustrated and running out of patience as I fell further and further behind everyone I was playing with. What’s the point of playing a game like this if you not only suck at it, but you start to feel like it’s a chore?

That was me, and while I wouldn’t normally go this route, I decided it was worth checking out a guide for the game if it would make my addiction fun again. So, I checked out the biggest guide that I knew of on the market - Pet Society Secrets. It’s written by a guy who has done a lot of other guides for games like Mafia Wars and FarmVille – past obsessions of mine that were equally frustrating, though slightly less addicting (for me at least).
Fast forward two weeks and I was having WAY more fun that I had been. Seriously, I can’t honestly believe that I was able to change my outlook on this game so thoroughly in just a few quick days. Not only was I having more fun, I was playing infinitely better than I had in the past. It’s been one of the truly fun aspects of the game for me, even since I started playing it. Granted, everyone is going to have more fun when they start kicking butt at something, but I was totally shocked by it.

Anyways, here’s the bottom line. I love this guide – it has helped me level up faster, get more coins, and start to have fun again with a game that I am entirely too addicted to. If you fit any of those descriptions, you should consider checking this guide out for yourself, because it’s a blast.  

I’ve seen a lot of new games hit the Facebook megasphere and they all have something in common – if they’re big enough, a couple dozen guides follow right behind them. Well, the newest culprit is Happy Aquarium and right now there are a good number of guides hitting the market trying to capitalize on the rabid hunger for information about this game. Unfortunately, for anyone out there who is interested in finding the one perfect guide, it can be hard narrowing them all down to just one good selection.

That’s where I come in. I’m always fond of reading through these kinds of things and learning new tricks, so I’ve been writing the guide authors, checking their strategies, and picking up each guide to see how well each one performs. It turns out that they are all fairly good – at least on a basic level – but there is only one guide that goes above and beyond those basic essentials and provides the information every good player needs to have.

It’s called Happy Aquarium Secrets and it’s written by none other than Tony Sanders – the mega genius behind the FarmVille and Café World guides out there that have been so popular. It’s no surprise that this guy’s guides are so good either – he clearly spends a lot of time and energy going through each one and making sure that they are as well represented as possible.
He covers basic stuff for sure, but the key here is that they contains as many advanced strategies, formulas, and numerical calculations as possible to make it easy for players who may not understand the intimate aspects of this game to choose the right fish and balance their tanks on the way to level 42 and beyond. In short, if you need a good guide for Happy Aquarium, then you should really check out Happy Aquarium Secrets – it goes above and beyond what I would have expected.

With a few weeks under my belt now in checking out the biggest restaurant simulator on Facebook (sounds silly right, but there are like 5 of them now), I can safely say that I’m doing okay. But, I wanted to check in with my fellow RC players and see how everyone else out there is doing. In my opinion, this game is incredibly easy to get started in, but as soon as you scrape a layer or two away from the top, you start to see that things are a bit tougher to master.
That’s not to say that you can’t be one of the better players in this game – but it takes a LONG time to get there if you don’t have an aid in hand.

So, along with asking how you are all doing, I wanted to introduce a guide that I’ve been using for the past few days to make my gameplay a little better. I’ve been spending a lot of time reading it of late and I have to say that it’s changed a lot about how I approach this (and a lot of other) Facebook game(s).

It’s called Restaurant City Secrets and it’s written in a way that shows you exactly what you’re doing wrong and how to fix those errors. From top to bottom, the guide is written in a way that makes it evident that the way the game starts out isn’t going to work. You need to go out and get a little sneaky.

You have to find new friends, trade ingredients constantly and get used to the idea of goofy layouts with strange items on your floor. If you can master that simple set of steps though (which are laid out in detail), you’ll be well on your way to a MUCH better layout and restaurant setup – which ultimately results in better performance and more coins – the stuff that your success will be made of.

Anyways – Restaurant Secrets is one of the better guides I’ve seen in a while. Spend some time – check it out and make sure you pay close attention. The guide can help change your gameplay style for good.

Ugh, I don’t know what it is about these games. I see them in the ads to the right or on the bookmark bar when I log in and say to myself, “who plays these games so much?” but then I start playing them and next thing I know it, it’s Tuesday and I haven’t shaved or eaten anything for a week.

That last part is not entirely true, but it may as well be because my energy seems to be dissipating into the ether. Need to go to the store? Crud, I was on Facebook. Need to take the kids to the dentist? Dang it, I was on Facebook.

So, it’s even more annoying when I get addicted to a game that I know for a fact I’m going to be playing for a good long time and I’m not even very good at it. I mean, how much time can you really pour into something that you aren’t going to perform well in? The list seems endless but it can be a bit frustrating to see the clock ticking by while my Farm Town coins just sit there stagnant.

Fast forward a few days into my first run through with Farm Town and I’m still trying to figure how to set up the best plot formation and how to make a real profit with the game rather than throwing coins down the toilet whenever I login. I haven’t quite figured it out yet, but I might be getting a lot closer because I just stumbled upon a guide that the other players are saying is making things very different.

It’s called Farm Town Domination and I have heard of the author before (he’s the guy who did the awesome FarmTown guide the came out a few months ago). The thing is loaded to the gills with information about this game that would take hours or even days to dig up on your own and it’s very clear this guy has played the game a lot. I’m still playing away, but already, I think I see a half dozen things I was doing wrong – it shouldn’t be too much longer before I can upgrade the old gameplay a bit and start playing like a real pro.

Ah, FishVille – the newest and some say most complex – addition to the world of Aquarium based Facebook gaming. I’ve been playing this game for a few days now and have been relatively impressed with it thus far. It seems like every time we get a new game from Zynga, they find a way to add another layer of depth to it without making it too hard or confusing. That’s a big plus in a genre that needs to keep people entertained without giving them headaches.

But, it’s also a big plus for me because I don’t have time to sift through strategies all day just to turn a game on. That said, I am finding that FishVille has quite a bit of little features that are not necessarily self explanatory. They work just fine if you don’t know what you’re doing, but they work oh so much better if you have a bit of extra info in your back pocket to bring to the table.

What am I talking about in particular? It’s this whole fish growth, feeding, and timing scale thing. It’s pretty hard to figure out a good schedule to max out your income – even if you do know what you’re supposed to be raising.

So, against most of the fibers of my normally sane Facebook gaming mind, I picked up a guide to help me out. It’s called FishVille Secrets and it’s become the big name guide on the market for the game. It’s by Tony Sanders (you may have heard of him – if not, he’s a big time writer of Facebook game guides), and it contains pretty much all those extra, high level strategies and tips that you would want for a game that can get a lot more complex if you let it.

In short, the guide is exactly what you’d want. It’s a good introduction to the game and it provides the detailed strategies that you need if you’re aiming to go above and beyond the basic, entry level style of play. If you’re serious about FishVille, you need to check this out.

The Mafia Wars Blueprint, the newest in a long line of recent game guide releases for Mafia Wars made its way to my desktop over the weekend and after giving it a read, I wanted to share my thoughts with everyone about how the newest in the current batch of game guides for the world's fastest growing social game turned out.

The Basics

The guide, very much like the other Mafia Wars guides, claims that it can help you learn how to be the better of the many, many mafia bosses out there. However, unlike a lot of those other guides, it doesn't waste time with very few details and a whole lot of common sense. There are some actually useful tips in this guide and that makes it a very appealing purchase for anyone who has ever spent more than 20 minutes trying to figure out what they were doing in Mafia Wars while their friends battered them senseless.

So, the early test was a positive one. But, how did the guide hold up upon further inspection? To my honest surprise, very well.

This guide is clearly written by someone who has spent a great deal of time mastering the art of building a mafia and dominating their opponents (something I am just becoming familiar with). They know exactly how to build a mafia family (and fast), and how to turn that family into the vehicle necessary to take down anyone that stands their way.

I've seen a lot of people make a lot of claims thus far with this game and to tell you the truth, they usually fall short, but Mafia Wars Blueprint really delivers.

The guide is about twice as long as the other ones on the market, is far more detailed in telling you exactly what you're supposed to be doing, and is updated regularly for anyone worried that they'll fall behind when Moscow hits the game.

So, if you're looking for a Mafia Wars guide, this should be the first (and last) one you check out. For what it promises, nothing else does better.