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You may have not noticed, but over the past month we rolled out a new Facebook application from Trulia. House Wars, the game where you earn cash to build your real estate portfolio by doing stuff to your friends houses, is a fun way to battle your Facebook friends and compete for global real estate dominance.

House Wars is the product of two talented student interns, Alan and Anand, who spent the summer working at Trulia. [NOTE: You may remember Alan and Anand (pictured above) as the co-stars of this video welcoming everyone to San Francisco for Inman Connect.] While they were working on some internal projects for our engineering team, we asked them to build something fun to help spread the word about Trulia among their peers. They were given guidance and help from full-time Trulians but had a lot of freedom to experiment and build out the game to their vision. House Wars is the direct result of their hard work - designed, built and deployed by our great interns within a couple of weeks!

If you’re on Facebook, you can join the game here - http://apps.facebook.com/housewars/. Playing is easy: you’re given a house to start and some money to attack or upgrade houses. The more stuff you do, the more money you make, and the more you can upgrade your houses or build new houses to grow your portfolio. You can create your own neighborhood and invite your friends to join or join an existing neighborhood. The goal is to earn the most money and become the richest real estate tycoon.

House Wars is another example of the great work environment for our engineering team. Engineers are encouraged to come up with their own ideas and to innovate, experiment and iterate on them. Roger talked about the engineering environment at Trulia before and this is another item to add to the list. If you’re interested in hearing more, check out the list of positions available at Trulia.

Thanks so much to Alan and Anand for all of their hard work and a great summer. We miss you guys!

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