New Monopoly City Streets uses Sketchup

pichuneke · 8 Sept 2009, 11:05

I have just read that a new massive online game of Monopoly starts tomorrow. And I believe that users can design its own buildings in Sketchup!

@unknownuser said:

This global game will feature an incredible amount of amazing new buildings and building types from MONOPOLY. From humble houses to stupendous skyscrapers and everything in between, never before will you have had the freedom to tailor your property empire exactly the way YOU want it.

But…

We still need 3 new building designs and we’d like YOU to design them!

MONOPOLY and Google SketchUp fans worldwide be sure to check back from next Tuesday 8 September for entry details and the chance to show the world your ultimate 3D building creation.

Source: http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/

Edit: Well, I didn't read, at this momment they need just 3 buildings. Anyway will be interesting to follow this game.

pichuneke · 9 Sept 2009, 08:03

Competition opens... No prize

http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/

@unknownuser said:

From SketchUp, choose "Share Model" and upload your 3D building to the Google 3D Warehouse (you must have a Google account to sign in).

In the upload window, add the tag "monopolycompetition09" and make sure that you've checked "Allow 3D Warehouse users to contact me about this model" so we can contact you if you win!

Technical Guidelines:

· Buildings can be any size and any shape
· Buildings must not have photo-textures; they must be painted with solid colors
· The file size limit is 2 MB
· The file format should be .SKP

Key dates to remember:

Sunday 27 September 2009 midnight EST - Competition closes

Wednesday 30 September 2009 midnight EST - Our jury will select 3 building designs from the top rated designs and notify the winners. We will also need to verify eligibility requirements at this stage

Tuesday 6 October 2009 midnight EST - Winners will be announced

October 2009 - The winners’ buildings become part of a global game of MONOPOLY

Jackson · 9 Sept 2009, 10:15

LOL, sounds like the people behind this venture have calculated designer's fees on a similar basis to many architects' clients: "Uhhh...say what? You actually want to be paid monetarily for the hundreds of hours' work involved in designing and executing our building?....... but surely just seeing your creation built is payment enough?"

Stinkie · 9 Sept 2009, 11:16

You boys aren't alone.

"You want to be paid for writing a 12 page sales pitch that'll help us sell this fantastic telenovela of ours? This'll be aired in prime time!"
"Money? Come on! Editing this 4 page scientific article we had translated into Dutch by a non-native speaker should take you no more than, what, ten minutes?"
"Sorry, we cannot pay you for writing that speech. There's just no room within our € 8 000 000 budget."
"What do you mean, you don't offer free advise over the telephone? Our client is really important."

linea · 11 Sept 2009, 05:45

@unknownuser said:

You have the chance to have YOUR building design (and bearing YOUR name) included in the biggest game of MONOPOLY of all time

Monopoly is owned by Hasbro - a multi million dollar company

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@unknownuser said:

Idiots like you will make us even more money! Yeah do it for free, it isn't exploitation because we'll put your name on a virtual building in a virtual game

Stuff like this really gets me mad. I've said all this before but the campaign site NO Spec explains very clearly why nobody should waste their energy on design competitions like this. Anybody thinking "this is great for my cv" could spend the same time better doing some unpaid work experience in a studio.

http://www.no-spec.com/

d12dozr · 11 Sept 2009, 06:44

To be fair, they are offering a Pro license...

@unknownuser said:

If global MONOPOLY fame and fortune isn't enough, you also have a chance to win a Google SketchUp Pro 7 license (US $495 value).

The thing that gets me is no photo-textures allowed - only solid colors! Good luck making a cool model that way, but I suppose the whole thing is geared towards schoolkids - but then why only offer a Sketchup Pro license?? Whatever their reasoning, the game is getting an overwhelming response...

@unknownuser said:

Since yesterday, we've increased our capacity three-fold, which enabled more new users to get to play the game. While this means more people are playing at any given moment in time, it also means that game play is still sluggish.

Jackson · 11 Sept 2009, 09:40

Never heard of No Spec until now, great to see an organization at least attempting to create some unity amongst designers on this issue.

linea · 14 Sept 2009, 05:36

@unknownuser said:

To be fair, they are offering a Pro license...

But don't school kids have access to Pro anyway because of educational licensing in school? I don't think this is really aimed at school kids, I'm sure they want the best models available for the game content.

thomthom · 14 Sept 2009, 12:22

@d12dozr said:

The thing that gets me is no photo-textures allowed - only solid colors! Good luck making a cool model that way,...

Photoreal textures aren't a requirement to make a nice model. A model with just colour can be more effective than a textured as it had less visual noise.

drchuck · 30 Sept 2009, 04:25

I've posted about our app before, but if you want to see the Monopoly Competition buildings that are in Google Earth (KMZ) format on your iPhone, you can do so with NaviCAD (http://www.navicad.com). Just type in "monopolycompetition09" in the search interface and tap a result. The competition models look very good in NaviCAD.

Note that NaviCAD is only a viewing/navigating app. Any suggestions are welcome--send an email to feedback@navicad.com.

thanks, Chuck (one of the NaviCAD developers)