iTycoonAn Urban Mobile Game

Tomorrow you can find Alex and me having fun and networking on November’s Mobile Monday TLV event. Search our badges.

Gamasutra posted an indepth analysis of the role video games played in 2008 elections. The author Bogost claims that video games weren’t used enough in the last US presidential campaign, and wonders whether games can be a proper election medium at all.

His answer is that games deal with politicking e.g campaigning, instead of politics, the real public policy relationship between the people and their representatives.

Bogost suggest the use of pervasive games which simulate policy making in order to educate people about their world and politics.

That got me thinking: If iTycoon, or a similar game was around for a few years now, could it help preventing the financial crisis we witness today? Maybe if more people were aware of their lives as an economic gameplay field, thinking through the decisions they make, and realising the consequences of buying and selling stuff - perhaps we’d all be in a slightly better place…

Anyway, the iTycoon team wishes the best of luck to Barack Obama, and recognizes the historical significance of this day. Do you think he own an iPhone, BTW? 

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The Headquarters of mobile gaming blog “MobiRiot” has just wrote on iTycoon.

“iTycoon, an application under development, brings the real world into a virtual game using GPS and social functions”.

Click Here for the full post @ MobiRiot

Alex has been interviewed to MMTRG.FR (French)

The blog that covers the Mobile multilayer trans-reality games industry has wrote about itycoon. Here is a part of the article (Translated from French by google):

Click here for the rest of the article (French)

The photos from the Momo TLV event in September were posted in Momo TLV Blog. Here is the photo of Alex and me sitting on the bar:

The rest of the photos

The technology and gadgets blog Walyou wrote on us yesterday, here a part from the article:

“The iTycoon iPhone Real Estate game is simple yet extremely in-depth by its vision and possibilities. It uses the capabilities of modern 3G devices such as the iPhone and lets you play on the go virtually everywhere. Travel in your city on your way home, school or work, and purchase or sell the locations you have physically passed through”.

Read the full article @ Walyou

Last night both Yuval and I made a short visit to momo (mobile monday) TLV - Israel’s mobile industry monthly meetups.

Beside large quantities of free alcohol and a several esteemed guests from abroad, we got several positive reactions about the project, and a warm fuzzy feeling that there is future for mobile gaming industry in this small country. Or maybe it was just the booze.

More info on the event.