First short message from the LBS Challenge
Sitting in the hotel in Singapore: The NAVTEQ LBS Challenge is over. Our game GPS Mission was a semi-finalist (top 12 in Asia Pacific). We had our own kiosk on the large NAVTEQ booth with good exposure courtesy of NAVTEQ. A big thanks to NAVTEQ – it was great.
The LBS Challenge is the most important competition for location-based service applications in the world. The APAC region is the largest region of the competition with the most submissions yet.We didn’t make one of the top four places, too bad. Still it was fun and top 12 is great, too. Have a look at the other finalists and results at the LBS Challenge site.
The LBS Challenge is the most important competition for location-based service applications in the world. The APAC region is the largest region of the competition with the most submissions yet.We didn’t make one of the top four places, too bad. Still it was fun and top 12 is great, too. Have a look at the other finalists and results at the LBS Challenge site.
My personal favorites (apart from us obviously) were Pacific Data Vision’s Sky Mail service (B2B) and the Australian Local Joe Live service (B2C).
Player interaction using pictures
There is a nice little feature in GPS Mission called a “photo spot” – these are geo tagged requests to other players indicating them that you would like to receive a picture of that place.
You can use these spots to mark places in the missions you design. A player stepping on a photo spot is asked to upload a photo. Your request to the other player may contain some more concrete advice “take a photo of yourself in front of the old tree”, or some such.
As soon as players start playing your missions, you will receive different versions of the same picture made by different people at the same spot.
Currently we are adding a feature that allows you to rate pictures people made at your photo spot. The best photo spots and pictures will earn gold awards.
You can use these spots to mark places in the missions you design. A player stepping on a photo spot is asked to upload a photo. Your request to the other player may contain some more concrete advice “take a photo of yourself in front of the old tree”, or some such.
Placing a photo spot in the mission designer.
As soon as players start playing your missions, you will receive different versions of the same picture made by different people at the same spot.
Pictures taken at photo spots appear on the web site at once.
Currently we are adding a feature that allows you to rate pictures people made at your photo spot. The best photo spots and pictures will earn gold awards.