PetVille Getting Started Guide: How to Feed Your Pet

That's right, there's another game on Facebook begging for your attention -- PetVille. The brand new game from Zynga -- best known for their runaway hit FarmVille -- puts a virtual pet in your charge. Your goal is to keep your pet fed and earn coins, which can be used to buy new items for both your pet and his/her house.


Getting started in PetVille is a relatively simple process, provided you already have a Facebook account. After logging into Facebook, visit this URL to get to the game. After customizing your pet, you'll need to learn how to feed your pet.

1. Start by clicking on your pet's food bowl, which is located in your pet's house.

2. Select which type of food you'd like to feed your pet. Keep in mind that different types of food will keep your pet fed for different amounts of time. Also note that you can change the look of your pet's food bowl in this menu as well.

3. Once you feed your pet, you will get a Kibble Bonus (of a certain number of coins, depending on which food you bought) which can be used to purchase more food, items for your pet and its house.

4. Important: if your pet runs out of food, and you aren't around to refill the bowl, then your pet might run away. Don't worry -- you're pet's not gone for good, you'll just have a pay a nominal fee to get it back in action.

5. When you start the game, you'll have access to a few different flavors of food, such as grape, peppermint, raspberry and banana -- which will keep your pet fed for 2 minutes to four hours. As the game progresses and your pet levels up, you'll be unlock more foods that can sustain your pet for several hours or days at a time.

Check out the entire list of foods and how much they cost and how long they'll last after the jump. (This will be a running list for now, if you have any additional information, please let us know in the comments below).The current flavors of food includes the following:

Grape
Cost: 5 coins
Lasts: 2 minutes
Award: 10

Peppermint
Cost: 15 coins
Lasts: 5 minutes
Award: 35 coins

Raspberry
Cost: 25 coins
Lasts: 2 hours
Award: 95 coins

Banana
Cost: 40 coins
Lasts: 4 hours
Award: 160 coins

Blueberry
Cost: 75 coins
Lasts: 8 hours
Award: 275 coins

Peaches 'N Cream
Cost: 100 coins
Lasts: 12 hours
Award: 340 coins

Orange
Cost: 175 coins
Lasts: 24 hours
Award: 535 coins

Mint Choco Chip
Locked until Level 8

Bubblegum
Locked until Level 11

Berry Swirl
Locked until level 14

Orange Cream
Locked until Level 17

Neopolitan
Locked until Level 21

Smiley
Locked until Level 25

Lucky
Locked until Level 29

Moonberry
Locked until Level 33

Hugs 'N Kisses
Locked Until Level 37

PetVille Debuts on Facebook: Like FarmVille for Cute Pets

Just a couple of weeks ago, popular Facebook games maker Zynga trademarked the name PetVille, hinting at the theme for their next wildly popular casual game on the social network and other platforms (Myspace, iPhone, etc.). Today, Games.com reports that PetVille has launched.

Zynga is also the maker of FarmVille, which just yesterday was touted by a Facebook spokesperson as being bigger than Twitter in terms of an active userbase. The company followed up on the formula early last month with an aquatic-themed title dubbed FishVille, and now PetVille joins the ranks of of other popular pet simulation games like PlayFish’s Pet Society, which borrow mechanics from popular casual Nintendo titles like Nintendogs and Animal Crossing.

In PetVille, you create and customize your own sugary cute animals, feed and care for them, and earn through gameplay (or buy) the resources to decorate your home, buy better food, give gifts to other players and so on. In the tradition of other Zynga titles and other casual social games on Facebook,MySpace and elsewhere, the game mechanics are relatively simple to learn and the titles are easy to pick up and play for short stretches of time — leading to that addictive quality of reinforcement and reward that characterizes frequent revisitation of your virtual domain.

Check out a demo video of PetVille below and let us know your thoughts. Are you hopelessly drawn to any of these casual titles? It’s okay to admit it: You’re among friends here. Friends who may help you on your FarmVille farm.