Supercell celebrates Hay Day's community with a touching video

Before there was Clash Royale or Clash of Clans, there was Hay Day. Now, Supercell's first game is celebrating its fifth anniversary, and the developer is commemorating the event with this touching new video. Supercell picked one long-running Hay Day neighborhood, and sent them to a real-life farm for a meetup.

The group had been playing in-game for more than three years, though they'd never met face to face. Supercell flew the group, whose members hail from Germany, the U.S., and South Korea, to an American farm. The video is a moving look at how games can bring people together, and how close friendships can be forged through these online communities. The short video was filmed by Oscar-winning documentarians The Fines.

Hay Day launched on the App Store back in 2012, and quickly became Supercell's first big game, with millions of players. The aim of the game is to build up your own little cartoon farm, exchanging the goods you produce with your fellow neighbors to grow and expand. You can play it for free on iOS or Android.