Monopoly City Streets

[paolo]

Joint development between Hasbro and Google Maps:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/sep/07/1

Launches on Wednesday apparently. Can't wait. I'll be buying Coldharbour Lane, and building a massive block of luxury flats where the Albert is.

 

[paolo]

Update...

Turns out it's not a Google development... it's been done by a 'web agency' , and is a kind of mashup.

And... they've bollocksed it up.

Capacity overload today so it's unreachable for most, and from reading the comments in their blog, it sounds like the UI is a dog too. *sigh*

 

[kittyP]

I read the title as 'Menopause City Streets' and had images of women in the throws of a hot flush storming central London.....


.... ok I'll get out of your thread

 

[Wintermute]

It is running like a dog, but it's still pretty addictive. I've managed to turn my starting three million into five, and bought most of my home village. Once you start buying streets, the urge to start buying whole tracts of land is hard to resist. I like it.

Anyone else on there? Interested in a U75 mini-league?

 

[cliche guevara]

I have tried to play this all day but the servers just can't handle it. Shame, after all the hype.

 

[paolo]

I have tried to play this all day but the servers just can't handle it. Shame, after all the hype.

Yeah... same, I've given up.

It annoys me, as a software developer. Building global multi-user applications is *not* something to give to your "web agency". Very very few know how to do it.

 

[teuchter]

I just discovered this....

Potentially very addictive, but - it doesn't work.