2002 · Business simulation · Educational

Miniconomy

In the free-to-play browser-based game Miniconomy you can trade with thousands of other players. Apart from trading, you can also make a career by being a police officer, mayor of one of the many cities, real estate agent, bank manager or even president. Miniconomy has a great community with active and friendly players.

Released: 2002
Platforms: Browser Windows
Genres: Business simulation Educational Strategy
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Perspective: Text
Themes: Business Educational
Engine: Adobe Flash
Country: Netherlands

About

Miniconomy (also called MC by players) is an online, browser based, economic and trade simulation game developed in the Netherlands. The game has over 141,000 registered players from 100 countries that can play the game in English, Spanish, Danish, Portuguese, German, French and Dutch. As of March 2016, 149 rounds have been completed.

Miniconomy is free to play, but a premium membership is available. This membership allows for the creation of Miniconomy Ventures (MV) with which harbors, banks, and garages can be built, enables the player to start a political party, and gives the player personal smilies and colors on the forums (ingame incorporated as clubs) as well as twice the length of posts in clubs and unlimited number of lots that may be owned.

Keywords

trading
business simulation
economy

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Development

The idea for Miniconomy came in October 2001 when then computer science student Wouter Leenards started thinking about making a realistic trading simulation game. Together with his brother, Mark Leenards, he further developed the plan, and eventually created Miniconomy.

Supported by Mark and some friends, he developed the idea further. Mark, being a business administration student, focused on the economic aspects of the game, whereas Wouter did the programming. The result is a unique online game for everybody who is interested in trading, economics and games. The advantage of Miniconomy is that it can be played on your web browser, so with any internet connection; at home, in the office, at school or at a friend's house. The first public round of Miniconomy started on January 1, 2002.