Trash Tycoon was an

upcycling Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products perceived to be of greater quality, such as artistic value or environmental value ...

social network game A social network game (sometimes simply referred to as a social media game, social gaming, social video game or online social game) is a type of online game that is played through social networks or social media. They typically feature multipl ...

developed by Guerillapps in 2011. The game applies traditional social gameplay features with the issues of waste, water, and green. Gameplay includes cleaning a town overrun by

trash Trash may refer to: Garbage * Garbage, unwanted or undesired waste material ** Litter, material discarded in inappropriate places ** Municipal solid waste, unwanted or undesired waste material generated in a municipal environment Arts, enter ...

recycling Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects. The recovery of energy from waste materials is often included in this concept. The recyclability of a material depends on its ability to reacquire the p ...

, and constructing products and decorations out of recycled material. The game shares a number of partnerships with real world companies, including

TerraCycle TerraCycle is a private U.S.-based recycling business headquartered in Trenton, New Jersey. It primarily runs a volunteer-based recycling platform to collect non-recyclable pre-consumer and post-consumer waste on behalf of corporate donors ...

, Carbonfund.org,

TreeHugger ''TreeHugger'' is a sustainability website that reports on news, and other subjects like eco-friendly design, homes, and gardens. It was rated the top sustainability blog of 2007 by Nielsen Netratings, and was included in Time Magazine's 200 ...

, and

Kraft Foods The second incarnation of Kraft Foods is an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, split from Kraft Foods Inc. in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It became part of Kraft Heinz in 2015. A merger with Heinz, arran ...

. Trash Tycoon has been shut down on July 29, 2012.

Gameplay

In Trash Tycoon, players collect litter in a city covered in trash and upcycle waste into valuable, environmentally friendly products. You can create other items such as jewelry, toys and furniture, which you can either keep for yourself or sell for profit. The game's production processes reflect the aims of sponsor and partner

, a company that provides solution programs for waste that is typically non-recyclable. The 21 million people who participate in

’s

programs and Trash Tycoon earn points for every piece of waste they collect and return to a

kiosk. These points convert to special bonuses including in-game money, special decorative items, or exclusive badges that allow users to show in-game friends their Greenness habits outside of the game.

Multiplayer

Trash Tycoon allows players to team up with neighbors in a multiplayer environment to collaborate in real-time and clean up the virtual city. The game also contains a real time chat feature. Additionally, neighbors can help players regain energy and speed up production.

References

{{Reflist Browser games 2011 video games