Today, the company is announcing the debut of The Pioneer Trail which will go live today , a brand new Facebook game where players outfit wagons and travel across three distinct maps — Beaver Valley, High Plains and Avalanche Pass — all while trying to reach a single destination—Fort Courage. As with most Zynga games, the social game mechanics are similar but with different themes and storylines.
For The Pioneer Trail, the story revolves around a young boy who has been kidnapped, named Ezekiel, by the notorious Gratchett Gang and as a player, you are on a quest to complete the trail and rescue Ezekiel from Fort Courage. The plot is a bigger part of this game than any others, and The Pioneer Trail places a pretty big emphasis the story-based gameplay.
The story unfolds gradually as players come across new clues. You basically start the game by building a cabin, but instead of centralizing the whole game around this action, it only takes around five minutes to put together your homestead in the game. After your build your cabin, you load up your conestoga, staff your crew with the hunter, doctor and carpenter and start your way down the trail. The creators claim that each one of these maps is five times larger than any of the outfit's previous games.
Significantly, you can only play the game with three friends, as each player is awarded specific skills necessary to reach "Fort Courage" at the finish.
The company hopes that by forcing four players together it will create "intimate gaming" experiences translation: you can't give up if you get bored, friends are relying on you.
Each map is said to take three weeks of hard pioneerin' to complete and if that still leaves you cold, remember: there's always that history textbook waiting in your app queue. You can magically transport to your family's homestead to check in on them, but the meat of the game is on the trail as you strive to rescue the kid. Your adventure will span a handful of zones, from the forest-filled Beaver Valley through to the snowy Avalanche Pass, each a place where you can gather resources, do jobs and find story notes that push the plot forward.
The whole adventure is supposed to take weeks to complete. Not your father's Xbox controller Brush up on your driving skills in Forza Horizon 5 with the controller the pros use. And here's the twist: You can only bring three friends with you for the ride. That's right. Forget about most of your so-called Facebook "friends. Each will be able to provide you with a resource—meat, medicine, parts—and each will be able to go on specific jobs.
A Zynga rep told me that they limited the number of friends you can connect to in order to ensure that interactions with friends feel like the most powerful interactions possible in the game.
Friends need to matter. And they'll need to be reliable, hopefully, as Pioneer Trail will let friends visit each other's games three times a day, helping their pals amass the resources and energy to proceed in this traditional Zynga-style resource management type of game.
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