mobile gps gaming

[Tim Shannon]

I could definitely picture a simple MMO.  A game world of locations, and
when you get close to a location in the real world, a minigame pops up on
your phone that you need to complete for +100 exp, or whatever.  You could
have a leader board to see who's explored more of the world.

I know I'd walk a block or two out of my way if I saw on my game map a
chance for a few more xp!

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:36 AM, ramsesoriginal <ramsesoriginal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Urban Tag
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Ortwin Regel <ortwin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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-----
> >  > From: community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org
> >  > [mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of ian
> douglas
> >  > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:53 PM
> >  > To: List for Openmoko community discussion
> >  > 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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