Madrid, Spain based startup Erepublik is aiming to make its mark in the online gaming community with a model that combines MMOG and social network.
At its core, Erepublik is a massive online multiplayer social strategy that aims to be intricate and accelerated enough “to attract a spectrum of both fanatical and casual gamers.” Players can be politicians, soldiers, entrepreneurs or journalists in different countries, and much of the environment is user generated. The game is still in invite only beta testing, but has 10,000 beta testers from 43 countries currently playing the game. A key pitch of Erupblik is the time required to play the game: 14 minutes a day.
Erepublik’s business model is based on a mixture of the sale of virtual goods, and advertising.
Erepublik has taken €200,000 in angel funding to date and is in the process of closing a further €550,000 round. Management includes CEO Alexis Bonte from lastminute.com and CTO George Lemnaru from Tevin Solutions.
It wont appeal to hard core gamers but that’s not the target market; a time poor MySpace/ Facebook generation who prefers their gaming less full on seems to be the target. It will be interesting to see how it grows in the coming year once it fully opens to the public.
I play Erepublik since the beginning, that’s a great and very promising web game.
If you want an invit, email-me at jonathan_fh (at) yahoo.fr
It’s fairly similar to what we’re doing at socialbang.com in mixing social networking and MMOG style play. Social Bang has a dynamic real time graphical interface so in some ways it more game like, but it’s less of a strategy game than erepublik seems to be, so I think we targeting a slightly different market.
Socialbang has only very recently been made available online, but it’s open to public now in Beta at socialbang.com
It will be interesting to see how this space develops over the next few years.
We are in need of french citizens =) Got invites email me : meza404 -at- gmail
13 invites stand for YOU !
Mail me : purplehaze.whooper “at” gamil.com
Si buscas una invitación, envíame un mail a lintkaurea@teleline.es
Además obtendrás salud extra!
Everything seems turnable into social networking these days…
I will be in san francisco from the 14th to the 26th if you want to meet mail me alexis AT erepublik COM
I love these types of sites and think they have a good future. I think they will become bigger as the mobile web starts to rise.
I am working on one at the moment so I am biased but the overhead is a lot lower than building a tradiional computer game.
Very cool and interesting concept, can someone email me an invite please? henry@collegemogul.com, would love to play with around with it.
http://www.collegemogul.com
3 invitations left, give me a mail howtobewebmaster@gmail.com
2 start ups from spain in 2 days!!! Hooraaay!
Opa España!!
Great game, join us in the new world.
Invites available at http://www.myerepublik.com
if anyone has invite left please send me at atencorps (at) mail dot com
thanks
@meza: why is there such a big need for French Citizens? You guys want to invade Germany?
I’am love erepublik!!! i have 2 companys
Erepublik certainly has a lot of potential, I can definatley see it being the world’s number 1 browser-based MMO game.
@Cristi : you just ruin my effort to keep the invasion top secret.
how’s that spain based? George Lemnaru is romanian and Alexis Bronte is french doing some business in romania too…
They have offices in Madrid ( http://www.erepublik.com/blog/.....-stickers/ )
Could someone send me an invite, if they’ve any left?
Cheers-Co
post a email adress and i will send you an invite
i also have 4 invites left…if someone needs one, mail me at arko_ovidiu@yahoo.co.uk
I’ve been playing for a couple of weeks now. The game started out OK, but after the war module was introduced, and the USA started getting their butts kicked, the admins of the game stepped in and started cheating in favour of the Americans. Believe it or not.
The game isn’t fun anymore, the admins don’t want to lose their American customers, so they’re doing all they can to help them, included allowing the USA to cheat unpunished, giving them extra gold, and pausing wars for days so Americans don’t get swept off the map. The game turned into a travesty over the last few days. I’ve decided to quit the game because of American favouritism. I urge you not to waste your time playing a game where the makers have put the ‘fix’ in.
@Honest John
Hello there! I am myself an active user on eRepublik and although I’m neither american, nor a fan of americans, I do not agree with your comments (are you canadian, by chance?…btw, the war he was talking about is between USA and Canada). It was a bug in the system related to the war module which needed to be fixed before resuming the war and that was the reason for temporary suspending the battle.
Nevertheless, despite the existing bugs of the system, I still find this game very interesting and complex.
If any of the readers need an invite, please send me an e-mail at musketi@yahoo.com .
All the best.
@Honest John - there has been some bug exploitation on both sides, I’m sure you know that. Putting the war on hold was a fair way to give the admins time to fix some of the bugs, I certainly don’t see any favouritism in the way things have been handled.
Yes, there have been a fair few bugs in the beta that have been a real pain - but no-one has tried a game of this type before and it’s quite tricky to know what implication even small changes can have when you are dealing with thousands of real people being the actors in the game. There is no ‘AI’ at all.
If anyone need an invite, send me an e-mail at dave_db at gmx.de
But why so few nations? Not even Singapore???