Megabrands Disney and CocaCola create a location-based game

Coca-Cola and Walt Disney, two of the most recognizable brands in the world, have teamed up to launch LiveCycle, a location-based mobile game promoting Coke Zero and Disney’s “Tron: Legacy” film.

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Keep Walking with Johnnie W.

What's in a name? Johnnie Walker Whiskies biedt inspirerende podcast afleveringen die je tijdens een wandeling of al joggend motiveren. Zet een koptelefoon op en ga naar buiten!

ChannelFlip story on location-based gaming

Students make tours

Dutch bicycletour App

Lees hier meer over fietsen met GPS.

Social Location Sharing

Serious Game from Ranj

Houthoff Buruma The Game is a game built for recruitment purposes in the legal sector.
The premise is a fictional take-over deal of a Dutch family company by a Chinese state owned enterprise. The players work for Houthoff Buruma, the legal representatives of this Chinese company. They have 90 minutes to convince enough shareholders of the target company to sell their shares and to come up with solutions to hidden problems. In this time they will be confronted with video & text chats, films, mails, news, websites, social media and more.

From: Ranj Serious Games

Augmented Architecture in Rotterdam

Het NAi heeft een mooi museum... maar soms vinden ze die vier muren een beetje benauwend. Eigenlijk vinden ze het niet meer van deze tijd dat je altijd naar ons toe moet komen om iets moois te zien.

Deze layar geeft een blik op dat wat er niet is: gebouwen, straten, pleinen die zijn verdwenen, nooit zijn aangelegd en die nog moeten verrijzen. Dat kan nu, met UAR: urban augmented reality op je smartphone.

Totally Geek: find the journalist with a fake identity

In 2009, Wired magazine writer Evan Ratliff decided to disappear. For one month, he left behind his identity, home, and friends, setting out to develop an entirely new life somewhere in America. Wired challenged anyone to find him – for a $5000 prize – prompting thousands of people to dig into his life and track his location. What happened next may change the way you think about privacy, social media, interactive journalism and identity in the digital age.

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An interesting locative game demo from a Dutch student

Walk the Line is a locative game that uses the players' location for game-play purposes. The goal is to get the ball from one point on a map to another in a straight line. Points will be awarded when the ball sticks as close to the line as possible. On the other hand, penalties will be given when the ball leaves the invisible line! The players can track their progress and position via GPS based technology (Phones / PDA's etc).

This straight line will be drawn over a city map, colliding with buildings, sports fields, restricted areas and other challenges. The players need to find creative solutions to these challenges and will also face all sorts of mini-games throughout their adventure. The team with the most points wins the game!

Live demo of JOYity

Live demo of JOYity - YouCatch by AndroidApps.com

Tag dis!

What a fun idea! Watch also this video from the TagDis creators.

Dr. Sizzle is a long-time graffiti artist. In April 2010, he had a chance to use TagDis - the virtual graffiti game you play in the real world - to put a tag on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.

7scenes

This video is a registration of the Urban Game The Mystery of the Colonel's Ghost played at the 2009 Adelaide Fringe festival and created and produced by 7scenes.

Just for fun...

Funny look inside the Microsoft Application Laboratory. Build your apps today and submit them to the Windows Marketplace for Mobile for distribution. from: mobilethisdeveloper.com