Do you remember how much I loved Farm Frenzy? Well, this is a company that knows how to make an awesome sequel to an awesome game. They didn't try to make the gameplay different; they didn't try to jazz up the graphics. All they did was change a few things to make it a little more difficult. In the original game, you were raising geese and sheep in order to make money. This time, you have chickens, pigs, cows and ostriches. Yes, I said ostriches. I worked my butt off to be able to buy some ostriches because their feathers bring in a lot of money! Not only that, but you can make hats and dresses out of them as well. I love this series and I hope everyone else has as much fun playing it as I did.
Game review: Money Tree
Money Tree is a weird time management-sort of game. You are a gardener trying to win the love of a girl. In order to do this, you need to raise trees that will bear fruit that will make you money to win the girl. Yeah, it's a little confusing. I didn't like the gameplay in this very much. You start out collecting falling leaves that somehow makes the tree mature. Then the tree starts to bear fruit and you need to pick/catch the fruit before it falls on the ground. If it falls on the ground, you don't get as much money for it. You also need to keep an eye on the water and sun levels your tree is getting otherwise it will die. Playing it isn't difficult - it's just annoying.
I can't really say I'd recommend this game. It's interesting for the first few minutes but then the tedium sets in. There are a ton of other time management games that are a lot more interesting.
PayPerPost review
In order to make an extra bit of pocket cash, I've been using PayPerPost on my JDorama review blog. The idea behind PPP is that bloggers sign up and after their blog is approved, they get to choose from a list of advertisers what they want to post about. Each opportunity has different requirements and, as such, pays varying amounts. Once you write your post, you submit it to PPP for approval. After the post is approved, you wait 30 days and payment is sent via PayPal. In the beginning, I thought this was a really awesome service. I could make some (fairly) quick and easy money while blogging. However, after about a month, the opportunities began to dry up. Instead of $10 or $20 opportunities, all that is available nowadays are $5 opportunities asking you to blog about a educational tutoring service. Granted, I've made about $150 in the short time I've been using PPP but it doesn't seem that I'm going to be making much more than that.
If you're looking to make a little bit of money off your blog and you don't mind waiting the 30 days for payment, PPP would be worth a shot. I'm really hoping that things pick up for them and a bigger variety of opportunities become available for bloggers. Otherwise, this service is pretty useless.