Run your city. Own your territory.
MapRaiders is the running gamification app that turns every mile into strategy. Your route becomes territory on a live community map, claimed by you, defended against challengers, shared with your running clan.
Enter the gameRunning alone is fine.
Running with stakes is better.
Running is the world's most democratic sport. No equipment, no membership, no schedule. And yet for most people it remains a solitary experience. Strava shows you who was faster. Nike Run Club sends motivational pings. But no app gives your run real consequences in the world.
The existing running app landscape splits into two weak halves: pure fitness trackers without social depth, and social networks that keep you glued to the couch. What's missing is the bridge, an app where your physical movement through real space creates playful and social reality.
Imagine this morning's run around the block meant you now own the main street in your neighborhood. Another runner is trying to take it back tomorrow. That's MapRaiders.
Running with real consequences
Route = Territory
Every running route you complete marks real GPS territories on the live map. The street you run every day belongs to you, until another runner challenges it.
Card Finds on Your Route
Card finds glow on the map along your route. Run a loop around one and the card is yours, and every loop also claims territory.
Running Clans
Start or join a running clan. With friends, neighbors, or strangers who run the same routes. Together your combined territory is larger, your defense stronger, your community tighter.
Route Quests
Quest chains lead to stations out in the world, and card finds lie along the way. You discover them while running, a worthwhile detour, a challenge that pushes you further than you meant to go. Discovery as motivation.
3 steps to your running adventure
Start the app: run begins
Launch MapRaiders before your run, confirm your start point, and go. The app records GPS data in the background, you look straight ahead, not at the phone.
Your run claims territory
Every stretch you run appears on the map as your territory. Streets, parks, forest trails, everything you run belongs to you. Other runners see it in real time and can challenge your claim.
Community interaction after the run
After your run: check your new map, listen to echoes left by other runners on your route, respond to clan challenges, and plan tomorrow's route with strategic intent.
For every runner who wants
more than a finish line
For the occasional jogger who goes out twice a week and needs more motivation. The territory system gives every run a purpose, today you're not running for the sake of it, you're running because your turf needs defending.
For the dedicated daily runner who already trains every day and wants a playful dimension. Explore new routes to claim new territories, compete in clan rivalries with other running groups in your city, experience community through shared audio echoes on favorite paths.
For running clubs and groups looking for an app that enhances both shared running and the social connections between members. Clans are the digital infrastructure for existing running teams.
Common questions from runners
What you can do in MapRaiders
MapRaiders joins two worlds. Outside, you claim real streets and squares on the GPS map, on foot, running or by bike. Inside, you collect cards, build a deck around your commander and play in the arena, at home or away. Land you walk is meant to bring you cards.
Claim territoryYour route draws the border. Streets and squares on the real map become your territory. 
Card game and arenaFifty cards around one commander. In the arena you play your deck against others, home or away.
Your route.
Your territory.
MapRaiders runs live in the browser, and you can install it from the browser as an app. Be among the first runners to claim your city.
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