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Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Post by shawn-butler »

saraid216 wrote: post #108
shawn-butler wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the first to, shall we say, draw extensive inspiration from shadow cities: http://qonqr.com/ There is so little shame in the industry anymore, but it is admittedly a very difficult task to be creative in a gaming startup. Competition is a good thing I guess. I'd hate to be competing with Google though. Their fanboi base is suffuse with a devotion that borders on unquestioning faith which plays well in the gaming…

Did World of Fourcraft predate Shadow Cities? http://mashable.com/2011/06/29/world-of-fourcraft/

No, shadow cities predates that game by over a year, but it remained a fairly European presence at the time. And the games are fairly distinct, that looks to be simply a "squatting" game with little strategy.

Look at the other 2 games linked and you find they are not only disturbingly similar in game mechanics but the graphics are also fairly derivative.

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Post by lucvh »

blocke wrote: post #50

I've been so waiting for something like this. While I'm expecting to be disappointed by this early effort the idea is exciting and something that was inevitable. There was a great anime series that sadly doesn't have distribution in the US called Denno Coil[1] that is required viewing for anyone interested in augmented reality. The series follows a group of kids in a city that grow up with Google Glasses type functio…

I had fantasised about this since I was about 10 years old and today it has been realised.

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Post by shaper_pmp »

rescripting wrote: post #104

I find it odd there is no discussion about what Google's motivation/business case is for Ingress. Reddit user Sharper_pmp has a compelling theory that it's an attempt to collect pedestrian route data to compete with Nokia's newly announced turn-by-turn routes for pedestrians. He also brings up instances in the past where Google has created mutually beneficial ways to have people voluntarily build their data sets. htt…

Shaper_pmp, but thanks for the mention. ;-)

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Post by lmm »

blocke wrote: post #50

I've been so waiting for something like this. While I'm expecting to be disappointed by this early effort the idea is exciting and something that was inevitable. There was a great anime series that sadly doesn't have distribution in the US called Denno Coil[1] that is required viewing for anyone interested in augmented reality. The series follows a group of kids in a city that grow up with Google Glasses type functio…

If you like that kind of thing I'll push Kaiba as a further-future look at a world where the ability to edit memories and change bodies makes personal identity much more nebulous. It's all emphasised with these amorphous visuals that are a great example of something that's only possible in the animated medium.

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Post by piotr_krzyzek »

DrewHintz wrote: post #25

[Edit: Looks like I currently have no invites left. As I get more, I'll give them out and update this post.] I think I have a few invites to give out. Let me know if you'd like one. P.S. I'm Resistance using the name drew

If anyone has any invites left, we'd all sure appreciate it :)

peterk @ chykalophiagroup.com

Wonder if this works alright in the suburbs ...

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Post by criley »

lancewiggs wrote: post #52

I like the underlying customer cause here - Let's get people off their chairs, on to the streets and meeting each other. Let's create interestingness in the mundane. Let's create a world which rewards interaction. A lovely antidote to the trend for us to all walk around with heads down, checking the latest irrelevancy on our smartphones.

I love the underlying engineering cause -- let's get everyone to keep a GPS/data link open while they walk around popular city attractions and roadways so we can build an amazing pedestrian pathfinding system.
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