Blast Theory Unwires Online Games

Wired is running a story on "wireless games" as being developed by Blast Theory. They are games played on mobile phones using GPRS to deduce the physical location of the game player, which is used as part of the game. Two different game ideas are touched on, as well as some discussion of where the ideas came from and where they're going. Cool stuff that even sounds fun, and reminds me a bit of playing tag with CB radios.

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real world?

[Anonymous Coward]

We wanted the discrete boundaries of online community to bleed out into the real world, and we wanted to see how this might change people.


I wonder what slashdot trolls are like in the real world.

It would certainly change our online community quite a bit.

Location

[ScribeOfTheNile]

What if my real-world location places me inside a wall etc. within the game?

Re:Sounds good

[pdbaby]

"Darl is close" I think I can see a flash mob building more quickly than normal.

Olympic Hide and Seek?

[dduardo]

hmm, this technology sure could have helped those involved in Olympic Hide and Seek.

Comentator: Hello, good afternoon and welcome to the second leg of the Olympic final of the men's Hide-and-Seek here in the heart of Britain's London. We'll be surfing in just a couple of moments from now, and there you can see the two competitors Francisco Huron the Paraguayan, who in this leg is the seeker (we see Francisco Huron darting about, looking behind things) and there's the man he'll be looking for ... (we see Don Roberts practising hiding) our own Don Roberts from Hinckley in Leicestershire who, his trainer tells me, is at the height of his self-secreting form. And now in the first leg, which ended on Wednesday, Don succeeded in finding the Paraguayan in the new world record time of 11 years, 2 months, 26 days, 9 hours, 3 minutes, 27.4 seconds, in a sweetshop in Kilmarnock. And now they're under starter's orders.
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Re:Privacy at stake

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

I sure hope the pinpoint feature is disabled when you buy the phone. I'm sure they (evil salespersons) would abuse it otherwise.

Salesman: Good day sir. We've noticed you're a regular client of the local brothel. Would you be intrested in buying our overpriced list of places you've visited? No? Well, perhaps your wife would?

Re:How about using real maps?

[AndroidCat]

Imagine having to reach a point in the game that, in your world, would put you in the middle of the river

How about in the middle of someone's living room? "Hello, can we come in? We have to kill the evil dark hag of hell." "Honey, some people here to see your mother..."