My Empire is a city building game with an ancient Greco-Roman theme. The game is developed and published by Playfish

Playfish

Playfish, currently a property of Electronic Arts, is a developer of free-to-play social network games. Playfish was founded in 2007 by Kristian Segerstråle, Sebastien de Halleux, Sami Lababidi and Shukri Shammas. In October 2008, they secured USD$17 million in venture capital funding from Accel...

 and was released via Facebook in May 2010. In 2011 My Empire became the inaugural winner of the Social Network Game category at the 2011 BAFTA Video Game Awards

7th British Academy Video Games Awards

The 7th British Academy Video Game Awards awarded by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, was an award ceremony held on 16 March 2011 in the London Hilton Hotel. The ceremony honoured achievement in video gaming in 2010 and was hosted by Dara Ó Briain...

. Game is going offline on 30 September, 2011.

Starting Game

When the player start the game, the default city name is New Roma and the vitural neighbor name Antonius. Player must complete tutorial first before playing. To get cash the player must hire a tax collector to collect taxes from people.

The Game

The first building to be built must be the town hall

Seat of local government

In local government, a city hall, town hall or a municipal building or civic centre, is the chief administrative building of a city...

. The first decoration must be the Olive Tree

Olive

The olive , Olea europaea), is a species of a small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin as well as northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea.Its fruit, also called the olive, is of major agricultural importance in the...

. The rest will be up to the player.

Decorations

Decorations can be used to decorate the facade of a building or just for plain decoration. This decorations can`t be rotated but they can be stored as storage. They cannot be sold.

Buildings

Buildings like decorations cannot be rotated and cannot be kept in the storage. They cannot be sold.