The growing popularity of gaming's surprise hit - gardening by BBC
Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Roblox Shooting, chasing, exploring - hit video games tend to have themes that set the pulse racing. One of the world's most popular new titles, however, is about something considerably more sedate - gardening. Grow a Garden involves players slowly developing a little patch of virtual land. It's something that, earlier this month, more than 16m people - many of them children - chose to spend their weekend doing. That smashed a record for concurrent players set by the somewhat more adrenalin-filled Fortnite. What is it about this plant-growing simulation that has got so many people hooked - and could it persuade more people into real-life gardens? Advertisement How your garden grows Roblox Grow a Garden was acquired from its original creator in Roblox, and then developed by Janzen Madsen from New Zealand and his team of 20 employees at Splitting Point Studios Players of Grow a Garden, which features on the online gaming platform, Roblox, do exac...