We’ll be updating the eRepublik site in the coming weeks with various items (including the Spanish version of the site, in addition to five new Spanish-speaking countries). One new item that we are really excited about is the addition of an official eRepublik tutorial that will help new citizens get acquainted with the New World. The truth is, though, that eRepublik has never been short of really well done tutorials done by the community, and for that reason we want to make sure to highlight such well done videos in addition to our own.
One of the first tutorials that we will be posting on our new tutorial page is the video below. We especially like this one as it really provides some great insight on going to war in eRepublik. If you recommend other tutorials, please send them our way for consideration!
It stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Social Strategy Game. Searching the Internet and with a little bit of luck one might find a definition that looks like this: “Massively multiplayer online social strategy games focus on socialization instead of objective-based gameplay, emphasizing interaction, world-building and an in-world virtual economy that depends on the sale and purchase of user-created goods. There is a great deal of overlap in terminology with “online communities” and “virtual worlds.”
But what kind of inert, short and un-personal definition is this? eRepublik is becoming the benchmark of Social Strategy Games. All interactions between players are made through hundreds of affiliated sites, chat rooms, forums, podcasts, and this interaction is starting to breach the virtual environment. Strong relationships are created or broken like the switch of a light. New friends are made and new perspectives pop each day because people want more!
Friends lose their jobs (…it happens…) and we need to be there for them, helping them as much as we can; others just got their first job and we are here to share their excitement. Others will soon have babies so of course we all wait to at least see some pictures or videos! People get sad and then happy again, they want more knowledge, new experiences, recognition, feedback and everything that comes along with this game.
The community meetings provide an opportunity to do all of this. Seeing your e-country president or employer face to face allows you to better understand the game, and meeting your army comrades in an environment other than virtual gives you the opportunity to debate and finalize strategies. The economic issues are very important in this virtual world (we all buy, sell or donate items, make economic or financial speculation), so anyone who participates might have something to say about this. The community is growing day by day, so the meetings should also be held more often, allover the world. While these meetings may have originally started in Bucharest, Romania, we are all eager to see pictures taken at meetings in Brazil, the USA, Indonesia, China, Australia, and anywhere else they may be held.
eRepublik, as the first MMOSSG, has become a hobby for many of the players, so its virtual and real-life interaction is what allows its players to present their objectives, their accomplishments or strategies. This hobby is the battleground, competition amphitheater, chat room or any other kind of environment the players want it to be.
eAPI gives you the opportunity to build third party applications on top of eRepublik. This new product is ready for private testing and we’re looking for smart engineers willing to join our team of eAPI testers.
If you want to be one of the privileged users to start working on your eApps before everybody else, get back to us with an email to api[at]erepublik[dot]com with the answers to the following questions:
- What’s your citizen name?
- What’s your real name and where are you from?
- What’s your preferred programming language?
- What do you do for a living and for how long have you been doing it?
- What other applications (websites included, mind you) have you recently worked on?
- What other APIs have you used before and what was the last one(s)?
- What type of eApp would you have in mind for eRepublik?
Last week was all about LeWeb for a few of us at eRepublik (and for me it’s been more like the last couple of months). After winning the jury prize for best European startup at last year’s LeWeb, we decided to return to re-introduce everyone to the New World as it is today. What a few days was. It started with our arrival on Monday to get everything set up - which included getting our booth ready. What an impressive booth we had - it lit up the entire room of booths with its towering white walls and screens running images of the game. People flocked to our booth full of curiosity to learn what eRepublik was and how to get involved. To introduce folks to the game we had an eRepublik newspaper including some intriguing news articles from the game, and also passed out eRepublik passports with LeWeb visas. What was especially timely was the current war declared by the USA, UK, Canada and Sweden on France - certainly intriguing news for a lot of the French attendees. It was so refreshing to interact and share the game with so many new people all at once and speak with them about their impressions and thoughts about the game. Overall, people were tremendously fascinated with the concept and eager to get into the New World and check it out themselves. We were all tremendously exhausted, but very happy and thankful to have had the opportunity to share eRepublik with so many people, face-to-face. We met a lot of really sharp people and had some very intriguing conversations about the game. It was a great time, but now it’s back to work!
Erepublik.com has just reached the 9.700 rank in Alexa. With more that 24,000 daily visits, Erepublik maintained a steady traffic growth in the past months. And remember, we are still in Beta! The average time spend by an user on Erepublik is almost 13 minutes with 16 viewed page in average per visit.
Erepublik is also visited from more than 140 countries and the top 5 countries are: Spain, Romania, United States, Italy and Sweden.
Civilization is one of our favourite games and was an inspiration for Erepublik.com so we wanted to share this interview of Sid by Gamers Global with you:
57 days after beta launch we start to show up on the Alexa radar. I don’t really trust Alexa stats usually but nice to be on there and it usually is more or less right for giving you trends. http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/erepublik.com
Erepublik.com has just reached the 9.700 rank in Alexa. With more that 24,000 daily visits, Erepublik maintained a steady traffic growth in the past months. And remember, we are still in Beta! The average time spend by an user on Erepublik is almost 13 minutes with 16 viewed page in average per visit.
