Love City

Love City is an SMS mobile phone and web game played over several different locations, bringing players together through sending messages of love.

The aim of the game is to move about in the real world to locations that are mapped onto the game world of Love City. Players score points by sending messages to players who share locations with them in the game world.  Players create offspring, create bonds and allegiances, and are set tasks which helps to build the virtual Love City.

Each player acts as an agent for their real location.  Consequently, Love City is a game about individual and community achievement.  The game can be played on their phones, on the web and link into large screens where the messages and game play is revealed in each of the real locations.

Love City is one of a series of games designed by Mudlark for mobile devices based around massively multi-player online gaming. The games involve multi-player network gaming, they are location based and encourage players to play indoors and outdoors. Making Life Playable.  The game was originally launched across 3 cities (Nottingham, Leicester and Derby) on Valentines Day 2007.