Buy the Kremlin

Recently, Yandex announced at Habré that their cards are now legally integrated with VKontakte. There was a call to use the Yandex.Map API to create new applications in this social network. No sooner said than done. I want to present my game on VKontakte on the Yandex.Maps platform, a simplified analogue of the late Monopoly City Streets.

For those who are not aware of the phenomenon of Monopoly City Streets : this is an economic strategy on a real map. Players need to trade in real estate, buy and sell promising objects, rent houses, compete with each other and intercept profitable territories - and all this happens on the map of your hometown.

The center of Moscow in the game now looks like this:


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Or so:



The map displays the houses, streets and other "zones of influence" belonging to players. The social component gives this picture a special look. In addition, it is one of the few games implemented on pure JS via iframe, and not flash, which also deserves attention. On the remote server, only a small wrapper to the database that responds to AJAX requests is spinning, and the application itself consists of a single index html page with micro-templates (thanks to Rezig ) and one js-file.

The player starts with a starting capital of 100 coins, for which he can buy either two cheap houses or one more expensive. Further, by renting them out, he can multiply his capital by acquiring new real estate, improving old, buying up entire areas of the city and making a profit from those who work on its territory.

Although many of the habra people do not like and are not registered with VKontakte, but I think the idea itself and its implementation will be interesting to many.