Nostalgia and retro · Post 035
From Orkut to mobile: how farming games evolved in Brazil
The move from browser social games to phones changed the gestures of farming: clicking and coming back to the computer gave way to tapping, switching apps and playing in shorter sessions.
Compare two routines
On a computer it is easier to show the whole map and the toolbar. On a phone, smaller panels and touch buttons need to leave the land free to play.
A current example
Try the same Fazendinha Retrô task with a mouse and then with touch. Compare the size of the visible area and the path to selecting a seed.