Facebook games have reached a critical mass, which means of course they can now be parodied. Witness Cow Clicker, described as a Facebook game about Facebook games.
You get a cow. You can click on it. In six hours, you can click it again. Clicking earns you clicks. You can buy custom ‘premium’ cows through micropayments (the Cow Clicker currency is called “mooney”), and you can buy your way out of the time delay by spending it. You can publish feed stories about clicking your cow, and you can click friends’ cow clicks in their feed stories. Cow Clicker is Facebook games distilled to their essence.
The game can be played now on Facebook.
Source: Bogost.com
