How do you start a facebook game?

[Jason C]

If I have an idea for a game on facebook, something that people play like "farmville" and "mafia wars" and "sorority life" etc, what do I do with the idea? Do I contact facebook with the idea? Do I find people to create the program first? and if so, where do i find those people?.....basically what I'm asking, what did the people that thought up "Farmville" or "Mafia Wars" do to get their idea working on facebook. Thanks!

[Mike]

The games you play on facebook, i believe, are not facebook games. Farmville was created by a developer(which is what you would need to be to create a game) and I'm sure some sort of advertising agreement was reached between the 2. When you're playing games likes spades, uno, and other games similar, those games are brought to you by MindJolt. There are other gaming API script providers such as(which is what i use for all my web sites) HeyZap.com