Empire.Kred is an online game for building real world Influence. Players buy and sell each other, and earn currency by completing real world Social Missions.

Gameplay

Players choose their own username (called a ticker) and activate their own portfolio in a virtual economy. The price of a player's shares depends on their stock market and social networking activity. Players can invest in and have their shares bought by other players, which will garner them a higher share price. Players are awarded Achievements for their actions, such as advertising and connecting social identities such as

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. Players gain dividends from the other shares in players they invest in, which are counted as virtual currency (called Eaves). Social networks supported by Empire.Kred currently include

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, Flickr,

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, Google Plus

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hosted blogs and the player's own

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and

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feeds.

Virtual currency

Empire.Kred uses a virtual currency called Eaves as a means of purchasing shares in other players, additional rights within the exchange, advertising and services. The currency can be purchased with real-world currency via PayPal or

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, but cannot be exchanged for real-world currency. A second virtual currency called Vees acted as Empire.Kred's rewards points system which users either purchased from the game's store or earned from companies and individuals who sent out Vees Missions. Vees were recently retired. Remaining vees in the possession of players were donated back to the game, and in exchange Empire.Kred made a greater than $1000 donation to the World Cancer Research Fund.

API

The Empire.Kred Application Programming Interface (API) allows for third party developers to develop applications to work alongside and extend Empire.Kred. Tools that have been developed along these lines include "Avenue.io", an application that allows players to carry out bulk investments, among other things

Empire Avenue and PeopleBrowsr Acquisition

Empire.Kred, formerly named Empire Avenue, was acquired by PeopleBrowsr Pty Ltd on September 3, 2015. PeopleBrowsr has renamed and progressively adapted the game to complement its Kred Influence Platform suite of products. Empire Avenue was officially launched to the public in July 2010.

References

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External links

Official ''Empire.Kred'' website

EAV API Documentation
Browser-based multiplayer online games Social casual games Virtual economies Video games developed in Canada Companies based in Edmonton 2010 video games

Gameplay

Virtual currency

API

Empire Avenue and PeopleBrowsr Acquisition

See also

References

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