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"tag:designing"
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Playing Cops and Robbers
(parking deck as playground) If you take a look at the GPS-Mission map of Bremen, you´ll find quite a few missions that either make you play a gangster or a police officer. |
Mar 3, 2009 6:26:45 PM |
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Global Game Jam
On the last weekend of january the Global Game Jam will take place in more than 50 locations all over the world. One of them being Erlangen, Germany, which definitely is worth a visit. Anybody coming from art, programming, game design or graphic design ... |
Jan 20, 2009 10:53:00 AM |
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Looking through Walls
Have you ever wished to be able to look through walls? |
Dec 18, 2008 10:32:20 AM |
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Mysterious Phones Found
Can a phone make you go to certain places? There is rumours of mysterious phones people found lying in the streets in differnet places in Britain and Germany (namely Scunthorpe, Ebbw Vale, Warrington, London, Cologne, Nuremberg, Constance and Hamburg) ... |
Nov 25, 2008 6:18:39 PM |
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Walking with strangers
GPS Mission has a lot of active players, playing in more than 50 countries. But at this point of time, I am still the only one in my city. This seems to be a general problem of location-based gaming. Here is some thoughts on how to solve it. |
Nov 17, 2008 11:06:58 AM |
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Comparing Maps
To create a GPS Mission others can play, anyone can use the online GPS Mission Designer. By placing symbols on a digital map, checkpoints are generated, places players have to visit. As Jörn announced in the forum, the mission designer now offers a ... |
Nov 14, 2008 1:28:00 PM |
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Augmented Lakes and Rivers
One design option the GPS Mission designer offers, is to add pictures to waypoints and riddles. The most intuitive way to use this option probably is to add pictures of the places one guides the players to. But since this is what players will see in ... |
Oct 29, 2008 3:42:55 PM |
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Time Travel by Foot
Have you ever wished to be able to travel in time? Well now you can - with your GPS phone as time machine. So far there is travels available to the 31st of March 1879, the 2nd of June 1967, the 2nd of April 1968, the 14th of May 1970, the 15th ... |
Oct 17, 2008 7:49:00 PM |
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Marking History
Most of the things that happen somewhere sometime don´t leave any visible traces on location. But there are many different ways people mark certain places in order to remember events that took place at them. Working on a series of GPS-Missions locating ... |
Oct 7, 2008 5:41:20 PM |
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Take a close Look
(Can you find... ...the hidden detail?) |
Sep 29, 2008 2:10:50 PM |
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Photo Safari
(results of the first Safari in Konstanz Fürstenberg) Inspired by the wonderful Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel I came up with a new series of GPS Missions making massive use of the photo-task-option. |
Sep 23, 2008 11:01:06 PM |
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Street Corner Photography
One of the options the mission designer of GPS-Mission offers is placing a photo task. So at a certain point players will be asked to make a picture and upload it. The idea of making the same spot being photographed again and again reminds me the movie ... |
Sep 19, 2008 4:26:21 PM |
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Virtual Mushrooms
The point of GPS-based games is that it involves the players movement. There are site-specific games like GPS mission, where the player has to go to a very specific location on earth. The places the player visits while playing are part of the game. ... |
Aug 20, 2008 9:18:33 PM |
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Shadows on the wall
„The Third Man“ (1949) is a wonderful movie set in postwar Vienna. In the beginning of the story Harry Lime (starring Orson Welles) is burried. His friend Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) thinks that Harry was murdered. Looking for the murder he not only ... |
Aug 13, 2008 11:58:45 AM |
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Five Places to...
How about using GPS Mission for some sort of informal city guides? I started a series that is about showing a themed selection of five places. |
Aug 12, 2008 11:52:07 AM |