Metropoli Game Uses Foursquare To Bring Monopoly Into The Real World

The students at the Miami Ad School are normally good at coming up with concept campaigns that use social media, technology and smartphones in a creative manner. Some of them come to fruition with the latest example coming from three students. They’ve created a real life board game Metropoli, which will be debuting in New York City.

Metropoli is a smartphone game that combines the check-in feature of apps such as Foursquare with the popular commercial board game Monopoly. With Metropoli, the city is the board game where you purchase properties and make money.

To begin, players must link to their Foursquare profiles and begin ‘checking-in’ to real world locations to purchase the building, any players who check into that location must then pay rent, dealt in virtual Metro dollars, to the owner. From that, players collect rent as well as buying and selling check-in locations and

The app, which uses the Foursquare API, will debut in New York City although the developers are hoping that the game will be brought to other cities worldwide.

[via PSFK]