u/Electronic-Fold7004

I'm the guy who drew city maps in pencil in his school notebook at 13, dreaming of a game where you could own real property and build wealth with your friends. I'm 40 now. I have a CS degree and an MBA, two kids, and a country that never taught me economics in school — so I finally built the game I always wanted.

Mint Street is a browser city where you buy businesses, earn income, take loans, and grow a portfolio — and every single decision teaches something real: inflation, supply and demand, risk vs reward, why borrowing can build you up or wipe you out. An in-game newspaper explains each concept the moment you live it, not before.

It's built for busy people too — check in for a few minutes every day, or once every few days, and you'll still keep up. No pressure, no grind.

Free forever. No ads. No pay-to-win — ever.

I built this for my own kids, and I'd love for yours (or you) to try it and tell me what you think.

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Important note: you can also draw your own maps and even generate them using real maps to make it simple. You are starting in Tel Aviv generated from map landscape.

Disclosure - AI was used to create the enviroment of the city (like pixy.js stile) just much more primitive. The actual placements of the buildings, roads and everything else is a hand made and you are free to create and even submit your own made maps from level 2. (or play them privatly without submiting with your friends)

As a kid I used to draw city maps with my friends — streets, buildings, who owned what — dreaming of a game where you could actually own property and build wealth together. I went on to get a CS degree and an MBA, and that exact combination — the engineering to build it and the economics to make it teach something real — is what finally let me create it. AI tools were the last piece that gave me the time to turn 27 years of wanting this into a real game.

It's called Mint Street — a browser city game where you buy businesses, earn income, take loans, and grow your wealth. Under the hood it quietly teaches real economics: inflation, supply and demand, risk vs reward, why borrowing can build you up or wipe you out. I have two kids, and where I'm from money just isn't taught in school — I wanted something that makes this hard, unintuitive stuff easy and fun to learn.

A few things on purpose:

Free, no ads. Always.
A few minutes a day is enough — you can even log in once every 3 days and still keep up. Built for busy people too.
The graphics are deliberately simple — the point is clarity and learning, not flash.

I'd genuinely love feedback — on the game, the economics, the feel, anything.

Mint Street — a free city game that secretly teaches you how money really works

Mint Street: I drew this game in pencil in my school notebook at 13. I'm 40 now, and I finally built it