Like many social games, the exploding “genre” of farming games has long been popular in China. However, while many US-based Facebook developers have been importing popular game concepts from China for a while now, we haven’t seen too many Chinese developers building on Facebook directly. Nevertheless, one new game to hit Facebook from across the Pacific is Five Minutes’s Happy Farm, which is also one of the most popular applications on popular Chinese sites like Xiaonei, Kaixin, and QZone.

Currently, the game has approximately 1.7 million active users on Facebook, and has very fluid game play. When the player starts the game they are presented with a static screen, coupled with a “task.” Each task works like a simplified version of the quest system built into Playfish’s farming game, Country Story…

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