Bandai’s Chimpan GPS
The idea is that players running the application on phones with GPS walk around and actively hunt the virtual rogue ape of the title, while those without sat-nav log onto the game server and act as assistants – exactly what they’re supposed to do beyond helping with in-game tools isn’t made clear but it sounds like a rum deal.
BlackStar
BlackStar is a freely available GeoCaching and Waypoint Management tool.
Can You See Me Now?
Can You See Me Now? is a game that happens simultaneously online and on the streets. Players from anywhere in the world can play online in a virtual city against members of Blast Theory. Tracked by satellites, Blast Theory's runners appear online next to your player on a map of the city. On the streets, handheld computers showing the positions of online players guide the runners in tracking you down.
ConQwest
ConQwest, designed for Qwest Wireless in 2003, was the first ever use of semacode, optic codes scanned by phonecams. A city-wide treasure-hunt designed for high school students, players went through the city "shooting treasure" with Qwest phonecams and moving their totem pieces to capture territory. The winning team won a $5,000 scholarship for their school. Online, a web site showed the players' locations and game progress, turning it into a spectacular audience-facing event.
Crossroads
Crossroads is a GPS game developed for Boost Mobile handsets. In this 2-player game, players capture Manhattan intersections by moving through them. But they must beware the Baron Samedi, an invisible spirit who is in the grid with them. The combination of real and imaginary opponents creates an uncanny experience, and a new type of play.
Dash for Cash / LOC-AID Treasure
The game was created and designed to allow event attendees to play a live, location-based game using their own personal cell phone. The game is divided into two events (Event #1 and Event #2) allowing for maximum player participation. Event #1: SMS-based trivia game This game will consist of text messages (SMS) directing game players to various locations to answer trivia questions related to the venue. Event #2. Once the game starts, players will be presented with a series of clues that will be based on a question and answer format. The game questions and location of the clue will be presented on the phone screen; the phone also verifies that the player has reached the correct location for the clue. Once the clue is presented and answered, the player is directed to the next location to which the player must go and the process is repeated.
FREQUENCY 1550
Waag Society developed a 'mobile learning game' pilot together with IVKO, part of the Montessori comprehensive school in Amsterdam. It's a citygame using mobile phones and GPS-technology for students in the age of 12-14 (so called HAVO+MAVO basic curriculum). It is a research pilot examining whether it's possible to provide a technology supported educational location-based experience. In the Frequency 1550 mobile game, students are transported to the medieval Amsterdam of 1550 via a medium that's familiar to this agegroup: the mobile phone.
Fruit farmer
Be the first to collect fruit without being captured by the killer wasps! Play with a group of friends, either in teams or individually. All you need is a field or park and some good weather.
Geodashing
Geodashing is a game in which players use GPS receivers on a playing field that covers the entire planet. The waypoints, or dashpoints, to be reached are randomly selected. The win goes to who can get to the most dashpoints; that is, if you can get to them at all! Each game has a new set of dashpoints making each game completely different and unpredictable.
GeoUniverse Mobile
GeoUniverse® Mobile brings the worldwide phenomenon of geocaching to your gpsOne-enabled mobile phone.
Ghost Town
A locative Bluetooth/SMS game for the ByteMe! Festival. The game brings together a number of locative technologies, all accessible through a player's mobile, to turn the streets of Perth into a giant game board. Ghost Town showcases Perth's public spaces in a new and exciting light.
GoogleTron
This project is aimed at producing and field testing a mixed reality game using mobile phones, GPS, and Google maps based on the old arcade classic Tron.
GPS Fishtrap
Build your fortune by collecting exotic fish from real-world locations: * Deploy and pull fish traps as you walk your usual routes. * Monitor the market and sell your inventory when prices are high. * Advance through seven levels from Laborer to Tycoon. * Earn equipment enhancements at each level. * Invest wisely in upgrades to expand your operations. * Buy treasure maps that reward exploration with riches.
GPS:Tron
GPS::Tron is an adaption of the classic arcade game Tron for mobile phones. What makes it new and different is that the original game’s concept is expanded by adding levels of reality and virtuality that blend into the realm of augmented reality. The players move in real space, they are tracked by GPS and their position influences their position in the game. Each player is represented by a line that gets longer and longer. However, the player’s own line is not allowed to cross itself or the opponent’s line. If it does, the player causing the crash loses.
Grey Area
Grey Area is a new location based online multiplayer game. Learn magic and play with your friends, wherever you are. Your city just became a battlefield.
Gunslingers
Gunslingers is a multi-player network game where players move around, track and engage enemies within their vicinity. All this, just using just an ordinary handphone. You walk around Singapore, you locate the nearest opponent around you and then you blow the crap out of each other. The game uses network positioning technology to help you find the nearest enemy. It is similar to GPS or Global Positioning System, except that you do not need a special phone with GPS capabilities. We use Cell-ID-Network-Positioning-Technology.
Hide and seek
Hide&Seek make social games and playful experiences. We expand the boundaries of play, reaching out into public space, new technologies, culture and media.
Jewel Chaser
You play the role of an aspiring detective. Do you have what it takes to catch the thieves, recover the jewels, and get promoted? To succeed, you will need creativity to solve the clues left by these crafty virtual Thieves... Each clue brings you closer to capturing them. You can go on established chases, or create ones of your own.
Legends of Echo
Legends of Echo is a location-based massive multiplayer online social role-playing (MMOSRPG) game for mobile phones. Players can choose from five bloodlines, explore a parallel world, teleport across South Africa, build and trade mystical items, chat in-game and battle other players in real time.
LOC-AID® Love
LOC-AID® Love is a matchmaking/networking game that gives you the opportunity to meet just the person you were looking for. This game encourages you to find friends within your geographical area either for socializing or dating. NOTE: Your equipment must have the LOC-AID service.
LOC-AID® Treasure
LOC-AID® Treasure is a new location based treasure hunt designed so you can share entertaining hours of fun while winning fabulous prizes. Only for Loc aid's clients. Loc aid makes mostly B2B.
loopt
Loopt is another location based "friend connecting" application. Loopt is not limited to the iPhone, as it works on multiple platforms, including almost all of the major cell phone carriers. Loopt allows you to see which friends are around you. The best thing I've ever done with the application is ping my friends who were nearby to meetup with them at some agreed upon location.
MobHunt
Treasure Hunt games are either a single player or a group of players trying to find hidden articles, locations or places by using a series of clues. In the earliest versions of these games the clues consisted of pieces of paper secreted at specific location. A modern variant of this is Geocaching which is an outdoor treasure-hunting game in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called "geocaches" or "caches") anywhere in the world.
Mobile Dead
Mobile Dead is a zombie-themed location-based game for your mobile phone. The game uses mapping to show where you are in proximity to the undead (your friends and others nearby that we find through GPS or cell tower triangulation). Interact with your environment and other users. Explore your neighborhood to find items like health packs or weapons. Challenge friends who are close by to a fight or just meet for some beer and brains.
Mogimogi
A game where players move outside, pick up virtual items through their mobile phone interface then trade with other players to complete collections. The goal is to get maximum points completing collections.
Monopoly live
Monopolylive.com let you play Monopoly in the real London with 18 real cabs fitted with GPS systems as your movers.
NavBall
NavBall will experience its “World Premiere” at the Come Out and Play Festival. This game will bring together GPS gaming, ball and team sports into an action packed 45-minute game. It features 2 teams of 11 players each that will attempt to score as many goals. The “ball” and “goal” are placed on a map of Amsterdam and the players have to get into formation to kick the “ball” at the right angle and speed to make a goal. The players have to move around the city with their GPS enabled phones in order to achieve this.
Own this world
Own This World is a geo-dependent online game (GDOG) that allows you to take over territory based on your current location. Your rank in the world climbs as you claim territory and if you have the most you are crowned the ruler of the World. Owning territories allows you to accumulate resources (gold, manpower, food & supplies) which in turn allows you to attack other users in your current territory. Compete against the entire world or buy your own personal world for you and your friends.
pacmanhattan
Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980's video game sensation Pac-Man. This analog version of Pac-man is being developed in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications graduate program, in order to explore what happens when games are removed from their "little world" of tabletops, televisions and computers and placed in the larger "real world" of street corners, and cities.
Plundr
Plundr is the world's first location-based PC game. Using state-of-the-art Wi-Fi Positioning System technologies (WPS), the game locates the user's computer in physical space and uses their location as part of the game. The game itself is a pirate adventure, in which players move from island to island to buy, sell and fight for goods. Depending on where you are in the physical world, you'll find different islands, different market prices and different ships to fight.
Realplay
It would be perfect if we could compete with everyone, without being dependent on their time. No matter if it’s a car race, bike tour, sailing trip or a relaxed hiking tour. RealReplay offers the solution. You simply choose the track you want to race on, select your opponent and start right away! Your own race will be recorded by an accurate GPS system, which makes it possible to see your own current position and the route your opponent took when he recorded his race. In some games this is known as the “Ghost” mode – now you can race for real!
RIDER SPOKE
Developing from works such as Uncle Roy All Around You (2003) the new piece invites the audience to cycle through the streets of the city, equipped with a handheld computer. They search for a hiding place and record a short message there. And then they search for the hiding places of others.
Sharkrunners
Sharkrunners, designed for Discovery Channel's 20th Anniversary Shark Week, is a persistent game of oceanic exploration and high stakes shark research. Players take on the role of marine biologists who seek to learn as much as possible about sharks through advanced observation techniques.
Swordfish
Blister Entertainment’s Swordfish™ is North America’s first location-based fishing game using GPS technology on mobile phones. This fun and challenging mobile game pits you against a virtual school of Swordfish™, simulating a deep-sea fishing experience within your own city – anytime you feel like playing.
The journey
It is your turn. Gone are the times where you could send your virtual ego around in the game, who did all the dirty work for you. Now you have to walk yourself to...
They Howl
This is a location based game written in J2ME and utilises GPS to obtain positional information. The GPS unit is not an integrated part of the phone but rather we exploit the proliferation of GPS units that can be accessed via Bluetooth is cheaper and more readily available than integrated solutions.
Toejam and Earl
This particular location based game takes its inspiration from the Sega Megadrive Classic and requires two central players who take on the roles of Toejam and Earl. The game is controlled by a mobile game controller, known as the Great Funkapotamus (a homage to the second Megadrive game Panic on Funkatron) who acts as the arbiter of the tasks that form part of the game.
TorGame's Waking City
A two-week mixed media game focused on building community and celebrating Toronto's public spaces.
Torpedobay
The year is 2019 and the world is at peace. You were the Navy’s top submarine test pilot and most highly decorated captain. You are supposed to be lying on the beach on a warm tropical island enjoying the sun. But a call from the Navy to test drive their latest experimental advance scout-submarine got you interested and you couldn’t say no. Besides, it was supposed to be a simple tour around the bay…
Tourality
Tourality is a new type of game for your mobile phone that combines sporty outdoor activity with virtual gaming experience. In contrast to normal sport simulations, you will face the real challenge of reaching geographically defined spots in reality as fast as possible and before your opponents. Your movement directly influences the gaming progress - because you are the game!
treasure hunt / locomatrix
Track your real life position using the map on your phone's screen. Follow the picture clues from point to point until you reach the final destination (bit like life really). Use the Warmometer to see if you are getting closer. If you get stuck ask for a clue.
Triangler game
The Triangler game developed by TNO has received the Grand Prix and the Most Innovative Game Award of the prestigious International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA). TNO's entry was selected with 24 other entries by an international jury, from a total of 400 entries from 42 countries. TNO was the only nominee from the Netherlands.
Uncle Roy All Around You
Uncle Roy All Around You is a game played online in a virtual city and on the streets of an actual city. Online Players and Street Players collaborate to find Uncle Roy's office before being invited to make a year long commitment to a total stranger.
Undercover 2: Merc Wars™
Undercover 2: Merc Wars™ sets the stage for every mobile gamer’s wildest dream: graphically rich, real-time fun on their phones with thousands of online friends. Players may customize their characters, acquire multiple skills, specialize in several professions, build powerful clans, buy and sell items and take on challenging missions as mercenaries in a live, dangerous post-war scenario.
Underworld
Using GPS inside your mobile device you discover a parallel world of dirty trade. Find deals everywhere you travel in your real life and earn big buck by moving merchandise around.
Virtualpunk
Grab your GPS phone and get out of the house! Create an account and start moving around - you'll discover a whole new dimension to reality. A reality filled with new an exciting possibilities. Meet all the in game characters and try to figure out what they want. Or fight your way to the more difficult parts of the game world. Parts that you have to unlock to be able to access. But as with all adventurers you might want to get some decent armor, shield and weapon before you go too far... Prepare yourself for a totally new outdoor experience on your way to work, school or while you just are out walking.
Wall Street Fighter
Wall Street Fighter is an exciting location-based game where the world of business works as the backdrop for some fun fighting antics between corporate characters, who engage in street fights using briefcases, PDAs or phones. Contenders challenge each other to bouts while playing the role of one of the six different colorful characters, each with a personalized set of moves and weapons. Players experience background scenarios related to their real location and scan the area for opponents to take on.
Waymarking
Waymarking.com will provide you with the tools to share and discover unique and interesting locations on the planet.