When I was young I used to create board games out of cardboard boxes, G.I. Joes and anything else an eight year old could get his hands on. These games always seemed to involve trap doors, wizards and/or magicians and the lack of rules.
GoodMogul is nothing like that, but it is a game of sorts. It is a mobile geolocation game that creates a fake economy using real world places. Users can invest, own and checkin at locations around them.
On GoodMogul, a location's value is determined by its popularity on other social checkin sites—Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places. So the more people that are checking in via social checkin apps to Wrigley Field, for example, the higher its value on GoodMogul… if people aren't checking into a location, the less valuable it will become.
I am excited to be launching GoodMogul this week as an open beta. It is currently a web/browser app so it isn't in any of the app stores. All you need to do is visit http://goodmogul.com on your iPhone or Android device and start playing. All I ask is that while you play around you take a few mental notes and send them my way if you get a moment. If you don't want to, no big deal, just enjoy the game.
There are a ton more features I have planned, but I want to start getting everyone's feedback first to see what would make it even more entertaining. As with most things, it is more fun when you get friends involved, so share and be shared.
