What's on in Malta this week: a page the game writes

If you want to know what's on in Malta this week, there's now a page for it. In Malta Living, the free life sim you play in your browser, What's on in Bonġu! lists real events in Malta, and Share this week sends them to a friend as a public page that anyone can open, signed in or not.

What's on the page

The page lists the real events of the next seven days, each with its time, its place and a link to its source, so you can check it yourself. Only events that have a source link are on it. When there's nothing listed, the page says "Nothing listed this week" and makes up nothing. The page is about events, never about players.

Share this week

Open Bonġu!, then What's on, and tap Share this week. Your phone's share sheet opens with the page's link, which carries your name, so a friend who joins through it counts as your invite, with the same welcome and limits as any shared link in the game.

How the page is made

The game writes it, so nobody retypes events by hand. The team adds a real event with its source and the day it was checked, and the game turns what is coming in the next seven days into the page. An event that moves is updated, and one that's cancelled drops off, because the page only ever shows what is published and still ahead. Paid partner listings are not on this page: it's the editorial list, the same one the game shows everyone in What's on.

A page for some places

A few real places, such as Fort St Elmo in Valletta, also have a page of their own. It says what you can do there in the game, with a Play free button that opens the place, and "Check times on their own site", a link to the place's official website. The game doesn't state a real business's opening hours or prices, because those change and the business knows them best.

What's behind a listing

Each line on the page is a real event the team has checked: the host, the place, the time in Malta and the link to where it was announced. If the host moves it, the page follows. If it's cancelled, it drops off. The game never copies the event's own words into a promise of its own: when you want the details, you follow the source link, and when you want to try it in the game, you tap Play free.

Do it in the game tonight

Each event is a place in the game too, so you can go there on the real day and see what's happening. Remind me in What's on tells you the evening before, and when the doors open.

For more to do together, see the friend weekend, clubs, friends and Gossip and a bank heist with friends. New here? Start with the Malta life simulator guide. For real-world listings, the Visit Malta site is the national tourist board's.

Questions people ask

Where does the list come from?

From real events the team checks, each with a source link. If an event has no source link, it isn't on the page.

What if nothing is on?

The page says "Nothing listed this week". It doesn't fill the gap.

Does the page show who I am?

Only if you share it: the link carries your name so your friend's sign-up counts as your invite. The page itself shows nothing about players.

Why no opening hours on place pages?

They're a real business's to state. The page links to the place's own site to check times.