Jimmy Buffet has filled his time recuperating from a fall off a Sydney stage by doing something productive: developing a game. Buffet has teamed up with gaming powerhouse THQ to develop Margaritaville Online, a game that will soon have Facebook, iPad, iPhone and iPod gamers frittering their time away on by partying online.

In Margaritaville, gamers will be able to live the rock star lifestyle. They form a band, build a bar, drink lots of Buffet's Land Shark Beer (of course!) and eat cheeseburgers. According to a C-net report players will earn virtual money which they can use to upgrade their boats or bars. Since this is game is largely based on Buffet's life and songs, characters and locations from his songs and books will make an appearance in the game. You can find Captain Tony's Boats and Planes, which is taken from the Buffet song 'Last Mango in Paris'. This is a game aimed more for hardcore Parrotheads, or Jimmy Buffet fans are they are known, than for the serious gamer.

The games cartoonish design fits in perfectly with the laid-back lifestyle that Buffet's Margaritaville typifies. There are plans to incorporate a feature that will allow players to use real life money to get virtual money and vice-versa. Players can use virtual goods in the games in exchange for real life rewards in Buffet's restaurants and cafés. Buffet also wants players to input performances and share them as tracks so that other players can vote on the ultimate Coral Reefer cover band. Margaritaville is less a game and more of a social hub for Buffet fans and they won't have it any other way.

There hasn't been an exact release date for Margaritaville announced yet.