vrijdag 11 november 2011

LvL App preview



LvL App is a location-based gaming application that applies game principles to a real world setting.

Any user can ‘drop’ a challenge on a certain location, which others can attempt to complete. You can earn real rewards from stores in your neighborhood by adding challenges and completing other users’ challenges.

I think this game is still in development because i cannot find it in the App Store or Android Market.

vrijdag 4 november 2011

Record, analyse and share your ski track!



Take your phone out skiing!
One of America's largest ski resort companies is hoping to make the sport even more social this season, with a location-based gaming app it's calling Epic Mix.
Vail Resorts, owners of resorts in Colorado and California debuted the mobile and web-based application at a press event at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan.

When the mountains open in November, Epic Mix will allow visitors to the resorts to track the runs they completed, log their vertical feet as a score, unlock achievement 'Pins' and access several utilities, both in iPhone and Android apps and at epicmix.com.

The project combines lots of location-based service and gaming elements; rewards for varied experience, social sharing of vertical feet in a leaderboard and more.

RFID enabled
Perhaps the most interesting feature of the Epic Mix tracking system is it works on the RFID chips in skiiers' passes. There's no fumbling with your phone on the lift to check in to a run. When your pass is scanned at the lift, you're checked in, and no constant GPS contact and battery drain is required, like North Face's Trailhead iPhone app.