We started working with a really interesting new client recently, Realius. Realius is a new gaming site specializing in Fantasy Real Estateâ„¢. We’re their application development team.
Realius’ Fantasy Real Estate games use real-world data to drive the games. Realius has some big plans and cool ideas; it will be really interesting to see how things unfold. A significant update to their first game Price Me Nowâ„¢ will be available soon. See their website and blog.
The very first post on the Realius blog explains just one of the intriguing values of their approach:
“I wished I could have played with my ideas to better understand the market before cutting the real check. As a result, we are designing Realius Fantasy Real Estateâ„¢ games to follow the homeowner life cycle so that we can have fun with real estate and learn in the process of playing games. The premise is – if you are good at Fantasy Real Estateâ„¢, you’ll be good at reality real estate.”
Realius’ games rely on real-world real estate data and listings. As time goes on and more games are developed, local search and geo-aware data will become more and more important. Wired magazine has a couple interesting articles on where local search has been and where it’s going: Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World & Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future.
