Foursquare + Monopoly Makes MyTown GPS Driven App

Foursquare has been a wildly popular location based mobile app that has become quite a hit in the cities where it’s been released. Vying for top “mayoral” candidacy for each location you visit and exploring your city makes the app interesting while introducing people to new and unique communities and businesses that they would otherwise have overlooked. The many people that play this app as both a business opportunity for exposure and a game find the experience enlightening, if not informative.

Fast Forward a few months and another location based mobile app is released called MyTown. Now MyTown is the perfect combination of new business introduction with the classic game monopoly. Not only do users tag where they currently are, but the internal game allows you to collect “rent” for a property and purchase the territory where you are at. The idea, much like monopoly is to buy virtual real estate based on your surrounding, all the while forcing others to check in at your owned spots to pay rent or sell their own properties in order to make that rent. MyTown stays true to it’s name of ownership on this one.

To extend the game play a little further, as you check in you earn points and “treasure” which offers up neat additions to the gaming experience almost making it rpg-like (role playing game). You collect items that give you bonuses on money paid to your account, increased check in point, and all the while, you have a max cap of hitting level 20, which I hear will soon be raised to level 30, ala World of Warcraft.

I’ll be honest, the app is addicting, the rpg-like quality keeps it fresh, and you’re still just tagging where you are at, with the bonus of trying to own your own city. The experience over all is good, but the game does suffer from some hang-ups in load time. The updates are coming, the app is new, and people are finding it to be a lot of fun so expect changes to keep coming and at the very least check it out.