I think that they should make a game with a farm for kids looking into the future because i want to live on a farm and work at a zoo. So i rekon that they should make a games for kids like me with hard managing work and build it ourselfs.

i can't beleve i misst it well i love my exotic farm and you should download it at bigfish.com tons of blessings lydia

I like games, farms, and animals - going to have to give this game a try! :)

A fun game. I missed, the "MyFarm" so I imagine this to be similiar, but with exotic animals. I found it enjoyable for the 2 hours or so, I played it. After that I had reached the limits of the 20 best animals and there was nothing more for me to do. I would like to see a "MyExoticFarm v2", with more animals to choose from and some other random "natural" disasters that would add a little more challenge to the game. Say for example, periodically, a lion roams into your Farm and eats your gazelles, there is a severe drought and you lose one of the weaker animals or a poacher comes and takes some of your animals.

I would recommend the game for anyone that enjoy simulation games, such as Simcity, etc. Thanks!

Comment #46 Whiterabbit...thanks for trying, but I think I must have done something stupid when I downloaded... even when I click on the little "big eye" guy and/or create a new shortcut, it still loads the Exotic version..oh, well... the Exotic version's okay so I guess I'll just play that. Thanks again!

Excellant- Finally got my own farm, now I have two. I love it the kids love them, and we are all running our own farms. Thanks GOTD & Merscom.

It is a very good recreation of My Farm.:)

It's actually not a bad game, though I could not figure out how to sell the eggs! definatly fun for the kids at least and unique.

Comment #39 Cheryl,

You will need to go to the My Farm folder and create a new shortcut by right clicking on the file that looks like two eyes within a light brown circle,(supposed to represent a cockerel)......

I think off the top of my head the default location for it will be C:\Games\My Farm

......and selecting create a shortcut from the menu that appears. Drag and drop this short cut to where ever you keep your game short cuts.

If you're not sure how to find the above path, go to the start menu and click on My Computer. Within that folder you will find an icon that represents your C: drive; click on that, then look for the games folder. Within that folder you'll find the Merscom games. Find the My Farm folder and open it by clicking on it. (You may have to double click) Look for the executable file that I mentioned above that looks like a set of eyes but is supposed to represent a cockerel and create the short cut as instructed above.


I hope this helps Cheryl :)

The game I requested has finally arrived.Thanks!

Reposting cause I wasn't logged in. I put this on the forum too hoping you'll see it.

Thank you for another good game! My comment has to do with downloading mostly. The download site sucks big time. On highspeed it takes over an hour on this one. The long download times started when you went with Wiki. My dl speed check out 700-800 kb/sec but the highest I get from Wiki is 17.7 kb/sec... that's really ridiculous.

Thank you for another good game! By comment has to do with downloading mostly. The download site sucks big time. On highspeed it takes over an hour on this one. The long download times started when you went with Wiki.

I missed the last farm game so I am happy to download this one.

downloaded the game.....I love sim games. However, after I have played it for a few minutes, the game locks up. Sometimes, I can do control alt delete and exit. Then the animals are on a black screen. I can quit the game, restart, and then they are back in sunlight. Sometimes I quit the game and then it says I neglected the farm and have to start all over again.....ughhhhh. Still give it a thumbs up

# 37 Merci Lapin Blanc, I truly don't want the PETA gang at my door, better watch these birds!!
So far my 2 birds are still alive, probably sheer luck, since even after reading the HTML documentation, I can't leave the food there, I present it to the bird, but nothing happens, although there is a little pop up with a dish and a minus 5 when I hover over my birds to check on them, and yes I did buy the right kind of food..... Maybe they are not hungry enough. This is funny we have a Lapin Blanc and Whiterabbit on here, which means exactly the same name....but one in English the other in French, now do we have a double personality Rabbit, interesting since this thread is about a Farm game..... Oh so many questions, so few answers.....

Ah yeah forgot to mention game is slow to load, although I have enough "juice" on this machine to run much bigger games. Might be something Merscom ought to look into, as I have almost all of their other games, and I don't have this problem with them.

Hmmm...well, I downloaded My Farm last week I think it was, and downloaded My Exotic Farm today. Problem is though, now the only game I can get to load is My Exotic Farm no matter what shortcut or extension I use (i.e., myfarm.exe takes me to exotic farm..weird). Any suggestions? I'm not big on computer lingo so keep it simple..haha

I missed the my farm download so I welcome this "repeat".

Hey, nanook, (#11): You'd better figure out how to feed that ostrich. I accidentally let mine starve and now there's a bunch of folks from PETA dressed up as chickens and lobsters, etc. staking out my house. When I try to go outside they call me "Satan" and fire paintballs at me. It's really annoying.

Other than that it's not a bad game.

Re comment #30 by Thermite. I'm running XP Professional 5.1 build 2600. With an Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor and 4 x 1gig Corsair DDR2 533MHz PC2-4200 RAM sticks. When running DXDiag from the start menu it shows up as 3584Mb RAM

I'm no expert, so can't really advise you. Maybe google it or talk to your local store. Mine; (Micro direct UK) is particularily helpful, when discussing builds and compatable components.

hmmmm. i like the sound of alien farm :lol:

#30.
Windows XP can address up to 4GB with Physical Address Extension. Google the term and you can add the switch to boot.ini. Enjoy!

This is't a buyable game. its always free. *** is wround with this website

yeah #28 now tomorrow were gonna get Brave dwarves back for more treasure #239048 Solstice edition

My kids (and me) gone wild.
I am going to pay for it anyway.
Keep it going.

#23 What OS are you using? As far as I have been able to tell none of the Windows 32bit Desktop OS's can address more than 2GB of RAM. If you know a way to get XP Pro to be able to use 4GB I would love to know how! RAM is super cheap right now and I would love to be able to use more.

nice my farm was good and with a exotic twist it should be better nice simulation game and educational for the kids

hey, #7 don't talk about the Brave Dwarves, you'll make thay angry, and they will comme again...
I'm scared...
I've heard a noise in the garden :)

Please disregard my comment. After resetting my codecs the game works fine now.

This game looks great for my 7 yr old. It installed fine, but when I click New Game I get an error saying I do not have the required Video Codecs. I find this hard to believe as I have pretty much every codec known to man. I can't find any info on the site as to what codecs are required. Does anyone have a clue how to solve this? My PC exceeds the min spec. Thanks.

#3 "My Human Farm" is actually already a game, otherwise known as "The Sims". ^_^

Thanks so much for today's game,

I have fun playing My Farm and this one looks more interesting and cute too. I love it !

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention:

You will need a minimum of a 1Ghz cpu, 512MB RAM a 64Mb graphics card and a sound card, both direct X 9 compatible, and XP or later to run this game. This may be your problem Kelly B comment #9; although the specs are relatively old, as all new computers should come with at least a 128Mb graphics card, and I don't think you can buy 1Ghz processors any more? Also 512Mb of RAM is small by today’s standards, when you consider the latest motherboards, which are fixed up to run up to 8Gb of RAM. I recently upgraded my computer to run 4Gb of RAM. It cost me the equivalent of $60 to buy two 1 gig sticks, but you can get them cheaper, depending upon which type of stick you buy.

Thanks again Merscom and GGAotD. :)

I missed the other offering due to being on vacation. This is a fairly nice simulation, except for the sounds that become quite annoying in a short while. It's devoid of obstacles, so it's hardly a game though. It's also rather short, you'll have at most a few hours of play until you have 20 of the best animal and there's nothing left to do. But I'd say it's worth 10 bucks, so it gets a thumbs up from me.

It looks like Merscom have heeded the suggestions of the community as now there is an optional desk top shortcut installed, which in most previous games from Merscom were absent; leading to much confusion in the computer illiterate segment of the community. (no sarcasm meant there)

This is a large download of over 73Mb, however a large proportion of it (69Mb) can be attributed to the sound effects, music and graphics. There’s nearly 50 separate wav files that contain Jungle animal loops and ambience loops, which really add a great back ground sound to the game. The introductory music is a 45 second loop of appropriate music, which if you want to can be exchanged for something you may like better; however you will need to convert whatever you wish to replace the music with to ogg format then rename the file to that of the intro music. (It’s the only ogg file in the games folder (found specifically in the data folder).

The options menu contains the usual sliders and toggles for music and sound effects as well as toggles for tool tips, a screensaver and a sleep toggle (space bar), which can be used to turn on the game when it’s in screensaver mode. The novel way that the screensaver follows the progress you make in the game is an added bonus.

The in game menu looks a little daunting at first glance, but once you’ve read the players manual, which includes details of the installations, how to play, keyboard shortcuts, Game techniques and details of the screensaver that comes packaged with the game. Everything will become clear once you’ve read it.

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n61/Whiterabbit_01/gaotd/Exotic%20Farm/ExoticFarmPlayersguide.gif

Unfortunately I was unable to find and access to the manual apart from when you initially install the game and by going into the games folder and clicking on the html document. I won’t go into details of how to play the game, suffice it to say that this is a 3D Farm management game; basically the same as the giveaway from July 25th called ‘My Farm’ except that it has an African Jungle theme to it. If you liked my farm, you will certainly like this one. The game play is the same apart from having different ‘exotic’ animals and different foods and farm buildings to manage.

If you have the tool tips toggled on, you will occasionally be prompted to carry out a particular task such as feeding or cleaning, or even to be told that you are doing something wrong. The in game screen has all the information you need with respect to the time of day, which is shown by a day and night clock at the top of the screen as well as your cash balance, stock levels, animal satisfaction and a time accelerator that allows you to speed up the game when appropriate (see section 5 of the players guide ‘Game techniques’ for details).

You can stop playing at any point in the game and resume at your leisure.

The following is a link to several game screenshots:

http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n61/Whiterabbit_01/gaotd/Exotic%20Farm/

This is well worth having if you have children. It’s a very simple take on ‘Zoo Tycoon’, which you can buy for less than this game now, however that particular game although far superior is much to complex for children to play. This game is relatively easy and will teach a child the basics of caring for an animal, as well as some basic management skills, lol.

Thank you Merscom LLC and the Giveaway team for another good game. My daughter loved My Farm, so will probably love this too. I give this a 6 out of 10 for playability, graphics and sound effects.

I downloaded and set this up with no problems, but when I tried to play, first the splash screen stayed up for a very long time, then the computer locked up completely when I tried to press New Game. When I restarted my computer and tried to play the game, it went to a black screen and locked up again. I'm disappointed. This is one game I figured my youngest would like, since she's all into sim games right now.

After missing the origional I can't wait to try this one. :D

How bout, My Funny Farm?

Could be interesting. :-)

My wife loved My Farm and is still playing it. I will get this one as well as she likes Sim games. thanks GGAOTD

Hey #3 you forgot my ant farm, my fat farm. I skip, 0 for originality.

Ralph, the software give away page came up as blank with FireFox and most of it loaded for me w/IE, but the "more" link didn't work so, still pretty much useless.

The farm game sounds a bit childish, nothing wrong with that, but probably not for me.

Then again, some of you adults seem to like it, so........

Hmm... My human farm? My alien farm? Merscom, are you listening? I think Marsi had some good ideas there! ;)

The same we already had with another animals. Please some 3D Actiongames not so children like games >:(

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Has anyone been actually able to feed the animals? I bought the food for the ostrich it wants food, but I can't find a way to give it to the stupid bird. Now its loosing points, Fish Tycoon was much easier..

Although, a human - alien farm twist would be seriously interesting if it is filled with enough humor ;-)

But yeah, twist of MyFarm from last week
for those who liked it, another go :)

This farm game refuses to run on my pc. Same as the last farm game. Bummer.

For what it's worth, all of the merscom games that I've downloaded and played have been fairly good. They appear to distribute games that have a lot more effort put into them then some of the other publishers that we see here. So even before trying this one out, it's pretty safe to say it probably won't be a complete waste of time.

@#3
Lol you make it seem like it's gonna be the Brave Dwarves all over again.

im sure this game is a good game...
My farm was pretty fun to play. But i get easily bored...
So im not going to try it out, but i'll vote a thumbs up :)
Since it looks Exactly the same as Myfarm...lol

i looks like Myfarm, i've downloaded and played, very exciting. this game is better than Myfarm