• Published:December 4th, 2008
• Comments:1 Comment
• Category:Erepublik V1, Erepublik World

• Published:November 26th, 2008
• Comments:1 Comment
• Category:Meetings, Erepublik World

Last weekend our team decided to have a party in celebration of 366 days of granting citizenship.

As the festivity took place in Bucharest, citizens from the Romanian capital and near cities came in greater numbers than ever before. So, we registered a new record – 48 persons attending an eRepublik gathering.

The number of female citizens joining the meetings has increased also, this time having 11 girls among us. In the pictures we added you can see some of them, hope to catch them all together in picture at the next meeting.

Country presidents, party presidents and members, congress - men and women , former mayors, soldiers of all ranks – from Private to Field Marshall, company managers and employees, they all had a drink with our team and wished eRepublik “Happy birthday !”.

Well, maybe two or three drinks, as in the case of beer alone we recorded a total of 103 liters consumed.

• Published:November 26th, 2008
• Comments:5 Comments
• Category:Erepublik V1, Erepublik World

When I pitch eRepublik, one of the things I insist on is the fact that since its browser based and doesn’t require a download, one of the great things about it is you can play it anywhere from any device. I personnlay play it a lot on my iphone and my new bbry bold (better than the iphone by the way). But I never expected some would play it this way! Tks Lint for the pic! 

• Published:November 17th, 2008
• Comments:2 Comments
• Category:Meetings, Erepublik World

Spain has been host to two spirited eRepublik get-togethers in the last week.  The first one, which took place in Madrid, was coordinated by Taguaro and included over 20 people.  The gathering was held at a local Spanish restaurant where the group enjoyed beers and friendly conversation about their roles in eRepublik, their political parties, who they admire most and who their foes are in the game, and lastly their favorite historical eRepublik moments.  The second event took place in Northern Spain in a city called Vitoria and was coordinated by Olmo.  Another 20 people met up for lunch at a Chinese restaurant to kick off their weekend discussing eRepublik and getting to know the beautiful city.  What is so amazing about these gatherings is that they really bring together such a great group of smart and passionate people.  We take on personalities in the game - sometimes similar to who we are in everyday life, and at others completely different - and at the end of the day to get together and meet such wonderful people is a testament to how very cool eRepublik citizens are.  Simply put, you guys rock.  It’s what drives our team to make eRepublik a place that you want to work, live and play.  Muchísimas gracias to the Spanish eRepublikans for sharing your get-togethers with us.  It makes our jobs worth it :).

• Published:October 1st, 2008
• Comments:22 Comments
• Category:Erepublik World, Erepublik beta

This is just a big thank you to the Erepublik team for working both last Saturday and Sunday. Also for all those “romantic” evenings working until late hours in the night.

Guys, we are creating something special.

Alexis and George

• Published:September 25th, 2008
• Comments:7 Comments
• Category:Meetings, Erepublik World

This week-end I’ll be in Valencia and it will be a great opportunity to meet the Erepublikans (erepublikan = erepublik fan) from Spain. We have people joining this meeting from several Spanish cities like Alicante, Barcelona, Castellón, Madrid and Murcia.

Ally helped me a lot and organized this event so here is the schedule for Saturday, 27th of September:

- during the afternoon we’ll be at a “horchateria” (have no clue what is this thing, but I’ve heard it involves ice-cream and beer). Looks like they also have “horchata” there, which is a traditional drink in Valencia. This place is located in Alboraya, a village near the city, on the Avenida de la Horchata (my Spanish skills are getting better and better);

- for dinner we’ll be at a Japaneses restaurant called Osaka, which is close to the city center, near a university campus (the Blasco Ibañez campus of the Universitat de Valencia).

More than twenty participants are expected to join us this Saturday and I’m sure we will have a great time together. I’ll be back with a complete coverage of the events next week. See you guys there!

• Published:April 10th, 2008
• Comments:7 Comments
• Category:Video, Erepublik World, Erepublik beta

I’ve subscribed to the newspaper of one the eSpain citizens, Lint he simply creates fake subtitles to popular videos to make them go over events of the political life in eSpain. For Spanish speakers only and you kind of have to be living in eSpain or follow it closely to get it, but some are really funny. This last one is about the creation of a new politcal party. Link to video.

• Published:March 14th, 2008
• Comments:5 Comments
• Category:Internet, Video, Erepublik World, Erepublik beta

Please watch in full screen mode. Alexis Bonte the co-founder and CEO gives a quick tour of the erepublik invite only private beta.

• Published:February 18th, 2008
• Comments:6 Comments
• Category:Erepublik World, Erepublik beta

Erepublik beta is now 3 months old. After 90 days there are now 12,500 citizens (20,000 registered users) from 43 countries. After having had several changes in the world order from Romania to Spain, then USA then Pakistan… Sweden is the new superpower with 2800 citizens far in front of Indonesia and Norway.

The Erepublik team has worked very hard behind the scenes to bring new pages and prepare the military module as well as the V1 version. Major improvements have been achieved in terms of site performance.

As usual a few stats we can share from Google Analytics:

Erepublik now receives about 13,000 daily visits (up 33% MoM), a total of 704,000 people have visited it since launch generating over 13 million page views and the average time per visit has decreased from 14 to 13 minutes. There are about 5000 people in the waiting list for an invite and this is growing at a rate of about 450 people / day, at a time where we are still in private beta and not communicating. This can be explained in part by the hundreds of fan sites that have popped up everywhere in France, Norway etc… and for this buzz we can only thank our citizens.

In order not to frustrate those who are in the waiting list we will try to let on a first come first in basis beetween 1000 and 2000 people from that list to become citizens every week depending on the impact to the beta so if you haven’t registered for an invite yet, we strongly recommend you do so now. You can also get an invite from existing friends already in Erepublik that still have invites or in one of the erepublik fan sites

The community involvement has been amazing not only in terms of enjoying Erepublik but also in creativity and feedback making us all feel that together we are building something special.

• Published:December 6th, 2007
• Comments:29 Comments
• Category:Goodies, Erepublik World, Erepublik beta

While we are still working we have the duty to answer your questions:

- we are improving the security of Erepublik modules. That’s very serious and we can’t afford to make mistakes;
- we want to have the website live tomorrow, still we need approval from our security testers;
- no wellness will be lost;
- the back-up database put in place will be from: 2007-12-04 06:00 AM - server’s time (GMT+2);
- we believe in Erepublik too much to stop developing it. We will constantly create new cool things that Citizens will be able to do in Erepublik.

Thanks again for your support.