Alexis Bonte (33) is the co-founder and CEO of eRepublik Labs. eRepublik one of the top 25 European start ups according to TechCrunch is transforming the way strategy games are created, distributed and played by leveraging the power of communities and the Web. erepublik.com its first massive online social strategy game, is set in a mirror version of the real world and launched in November 2007. Erepublik.com has over 250.000 active citizens, 7 million monthly visits and was a prize winner in the LeWeb3 start-up competition in 2007 as well as the TechCrunch FOWA competition in 2008. Prior to Erepublik, Alexis was with lastminute.com for 6 years right up to its 1b$ trade sale to Sabre in 2005 – first as Head of Business Development (UK) then as Marketing and Sales Director (France) and then as Managing Director (Italy). Alexis is also an angel investor specializing in Internet start ups.
He is the non-executive chairman of the video and music centered online community trilulilu.ro, the n’1 Romanian website and is a board member of various Internet and health-care companies. Alexis holds a BA Honours Degree in International Business & Languages from the European Business School (London), is a sailing national champion (Portugal) and is fluent in 5 languages.
@tynan, they leave farmville and then play Frontierville, then cityville, leave cityville and then play Empire Allies and that has more longevity plus it kills me to say this being a CIV fan boy but its much better than Civ world then on to the new game and so on. ...
Steam security measure are one of the main reasons I have stopped playing PC games. What a nightmare, just let me put the disc in or download the game and play. No Ok, tons of freemium browser games I can play.
Sorry for talking about my own soup here, but I don't think there is any game out there right now where there are more different stories emerging every day than on eRepublik.com The fact that the whole gameplay is based in user interaction and that we players can use a ...
This is kind of what we are doing with erepublik.com for the past 3 years and i can tell you its pretty hard to balance and get right. Its very easy to get lost in the complexity and therefore loose your players.
