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Mogi Location-Based Mobile Gaming Hits Japan
Thanks to TheFeature for its article discussing the popular Japanese mobile phone game Mogi, a title which "uses both the position of players in the landscape, and the landscape itself to generate play." The French developers of Mogi at Newt Games explain: "We used the map to give [virtual] creatures some interesting behavior. Some creatures only hunt at night. Some hang around close to parks", thus: "If a player wants to find that [in-game] creature, they'll have to travel near a park [playing Mogi on their mobile phone] in the evening hours." A keen Tokyo-based player of the game also explains why he enjoys it: "All the trips I make in the city are now randomized, as I will often divert a few hundred meters to go and collect an object around me."
...and don't you dare say that isn't what it's going to come to. People are going to run around the country-side/planet chasing small cute fighting animals with one word vocabularies and, ultimately, train them to fight each other.
Why can't all fpga/microcontroller manufacturers just release free optimizing compilers???
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Turning Japanese, I'm turning Japanese, I really think so . . . .
Yeah the magic mushrooms I found it the park did make me grow, but I can't seem to find any fire flowers, feathers, or even a single giant windup sock.
Perhaps they could put items or whatever in social areas, like clubs or bars. This way not only will us geeks get our exercise roaming around the city, we may be forced to mingle with real people. Maybe they could pay hot chicks to be waiting in a club, and the only way you can get experience points is to talk her into giving you a secret code! Just think, for a small montly fee you could get interaction with a hot chi...
sssh!! time to run and patent this brilliant money-making idea!!
I will often divert a few hundred meters to go and collect an object around me.
Those dealers for not standing still
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
"All the trips I make in the city are now randomized, as I will often divert a few hundred meters to go and collect an object around me."
So the harder the game gets, the lesser your chances of reaching anywhere on time?
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I don't know about the real-life version being boring - I imagine it'd be quite entertaining to watch hordes of people walking into things and falling over because they were trying to play a game and walk down a street simultaneously (a bad move when many probably haven't yet mastered walking and chewing gum at the same time).
Plenty of scope there for passing away the time Nelson (from the Simpsons) style: Ha-ha!
Or, you could get interactive and try to break their minds by dressing up as characters from the game and confronting them in real life. Now that would be fun! :-)
A device sending you to a park? at night? sounds right for a flashmugging
My Karma: ran over your Dogma
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Good point Pete. I guess it would all depend on the numbers involved. Even nerds can be dangerous when they Swarm! :)
You have to find the magic hammer first. Then go to the large rock beside the pond and hit it as hard as you can. It will glow and then disappear, leaving a pothole leading to the secret cave. Play the magic flute with the sequence FCBBA, and these items should appear.
That's how we get our pay cheques these days.
Maybe they could pay hot chicks to be waiting in a club, and the only way you can get experience . . . is to talk her into giving you a . . . Just think, for a . . . fee you could get interaction with a hot chi...
I don't mean to put a total damper on your pre-IPO frenzy, yet I cannot help but mention that prior art exists in the form of nothing less than the world's oldest profession. And a pimp's got a better business plan, too, because the chicks don't even have to be all that hot, and the "interaction" is way better than just silly game chit-chat.
...When geeks attack?
Hey, if they're video phones and you got photos from several angles, you could put organize them one after another and get the criminal to rotate like in the Matrix!
I'd like to see that wanted video in the local post office.
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Just imagine you have just lost a fight against someone, then you notice the guy next to you is playing the same game you realise that he is the one who's just kicked you arse. Any sugestions on how this could end.
Saying Apple is better than MS is like saying Botulism is better than rabies.
Less obvious is someone else placing an object: To get Isansti Cup: Enter Bank Lobby - say "At Entian His Isansti Cup!" and tell the nearest teller to give it to you.
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