Random Monday : Build your own Virtual City @ myminicity.com

Monday, January 14th, 2008, 12:00 pmRoys12 comments

Saw this over a while back at Geeknews, a great source for interesting stuff and despite the title, it’s not necessarily for geeks only :D . MyMinicity.com is a Flash site by French developers Motion-Twin (creators of one of my newfound online addictions – Dinoparc.com) where you can build your own virtual city @ mycity.myminicity.com.


Geeknews City

The city automatically grows when visitors enter your city by going to mycity.myminicity.com directly. After a set number of inhabitants, the city can only further evolve when visitors enter via the infrastructure links provided on your city page e.g mycity.myminicity.com/ind to expand your industrial sectors thereby reducing the unemployment rate and prevent jobless inhabitants from leaving your city. Different infrastructure links are ‘unlocked’ as the city grows in size and population.

Since visitors have to enter the infrastructure links directly, you have to advertise these links on your blog, forum signatures (and possibly spam email :P ) for a chance to really expand the city.

While the entire process of city evolution is completely non-interactive, it still feels like a city-building sim where you derive some weird sense of satisfication from seeing a couple of humble huts expanding to a town and (hopefully) to a bustling city like the one below.


Kuala Lumpur – the biggest city in MyMinicity.com for the Malaysian zone. There isn’t a Singapore zone, though :(

Create your own virtual city at MyMinicity.com or help expand Geeknews City by increasing its population or improving its industry, transport (currently unavailable), security (currently unavailable), environment (currently unavailable)and business (currently unavailable).

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12 comments:

  1. Andy, Monday, January 14th, 2008, 1:08 pm

    Hi Roys.

    I’m very surprised there’s no Singapore zone.

    I found a couple of sites recently that are gaming the system, or at least provide the script, that allows you to increase the population each time their blog is visited. Yeah, that’s cheating.

    This fellow wrote a plug-in to show myminicy stats: http://www.lloydandlauren.com/?page_id=1342

    I had thought this whole thing wouldn’t be too interesting, we’ll see if the fad dies off in a couple of months.

     
  2. Kenny, Monday, January 14th, 2008, 2:38 pm

    This looks just like Sim City 2000!

     
  3. Roys, Monday, January 14th, 2008, 3:00 pm

    Hi Andy, it will die down once everyone starts creating their own city and realize that the only one visiting and growing their city are they themselves.

    Kenny, SimCity 2000 is IMHO much more interesting but agree, looks likes SimCity when the city expands to an enormous size :)

     
  4. natasha, Sunday, September 14th, 2008, 1:03 pm

    wicked it is so cool but where do u sign in?

     
  5. Roys, Sunday, September 14th, 2008, 7:52 pm

    Hi Natasha, you need to create your own city at MyMiniCity

     
  6. Fode, Wednesday, November 26th, 2008, 1:54 am

     
  7. matt, Saturday, January 17th, 2009, 8:02 am

    i play this game its so awesome!

     
  8. John Bomb, Monday, February 9th, 2009, 9:42 am

    Awsome

     
  9. yay @Sappire@ yay, Friday, February 27th, 2009, 2:37 am

    how do u make your city go in it and play games?

     
  10. Roys, Friday, February 27th, 2009, 10:16 am

    No you can’t – the city image is for display only :(

     
  11. Johnny Cade, Thursday, May 14th, 2009, 5:10 am

    i want to join

     
  12. Cora Orillane, Thursday, May 28th, 2009, 10:35 am

    how do i join and what ages is it 4

     

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