mobile gps gaming

[Ortwin Regel]

We'd need a compass for a working 3D world window. Else the phone
can't be certain (though it could estimate) where it is facing.

I am very interested in GPS games. A PacMan-like game that
automatically generates a level based on the surrounding Open
Streetmap data would be awesome. :) A Snake game would also be great.
Lots of possibilities probably.

Ortwin

On 4/30/08, Crane, Matthew <mcrane03 at harris.com> wrote:
>
> Yea, I'm excited too.  I was thinking it would be possible to use the
> accelerometer + GPS to make the phone act like a "window" into the game
> world.  Where you can look around in 3d.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of ian douglas
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: mobile gps gaming
>
>
> Robin Paulson wrote:
> > i just listened to an interesting piece on the bbc about gps gaming on
> > mobile phones:
>
>
> There was a group of people in some major American city a year or so ago
>
> that played a city-wide game of PacMan using GPS-enabled phones...
> teammates would lead the 'ghost' characters to where the PacMan
> character was, and so on. Got a fair bit of press.
>
> I'm excited at what the Freerunner will be capable of in this regard, as
>
> it would be FAR easier to write/play GPS games with an open phone.
>
> -id
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