Location based gaming

[ste2010]

Hi guys, im pretty new to these forums, i have read them for a while but never really posted before.

I am currently doing my masters degree, looking into location based gaming and i am in need of some feedback from the general iphone community and the iphone gaming community. In case your not sure about what i mean when i say location based game, a good example is parallel kingdoms for the iphone or any game that overlays the game world on top of the real world. Another example is mafia respect and retaliation which has missions that are available depending on your location.

I suppose what i first need to find out is, do any of you play any location based games? I know the selection out there at the moment isn't massive but if you do which one/ones?

If you do what is it about the game that you like/dislike? Is it because its location based that you play the game or is that the part you dont like?

Even if you don't play any location based games you can still help me by telling me if you would play a game that required you to move around in the real world in order to progress in the game? Is this something that you could see yourself doing? When i refer to moving around it could be that you are at the bus stop or train station in the morning waiting to go to work/college or your at a friends house and you can log on to the game to check your surroundings in the game world which are based on your real world location.

Is this genre something that people could see growing if done well? Getting people to move around, explore their towns/cities more as well as possibly building new social links with others in their location through games such as these?

Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.

Stephen

[cidhugist]

Glad to hear you're using this: I plan to keep it much more aggressively up-to-date than has been the case in the past, but don't hesitate to let me know if you find errors or need clarifications.