Sounds like a great idea. Just one question: How are you going to tell where people actually are? Do you have some way to track the phone itself. Doubt you could pull off any triangulation (the infrastructure would cost too much. Could you go by which cell the phone was connecting to. Any thoughts as to the technical side of this?

quote: Original post by MarcDM
AcRID_ACiD, in what context did you make this game? Were you working for a company or was in college that you got this assignment? If for a company? Which one?

I find this very interesting material, would love to hear more about this.

in college...actually we are just supposed to come up with the concept only....and since my country is pretty small(look for Singapore in a map and see if you can spot it at first glance) i suppose my game is possible..

quote: Original post by overflowed
Sounds like a great idea. Just one question: How are you going to tell where people actually are? Do you have some way to track the phone itself. Doubt you could pull off any triangulation (the infrastructure would cost too much. Could you go by which cell the phone was connecting to. Any thoughts as to the technical side of this?

Basicaly what they do is using the serving cell of the mobile phone to locate them (Instead of gps). They dedect on witch cell you are connected and send some signals from different cells to your mobile to calculate your position.

Here is a good overview:

http://developer.openwave.com/omdt/location_studio_sdk/pdf/Intro_to_Location_Technologies.pdf

and introduction:
http://www.ericsson.com/mobilityworld/sub/articles/other_articles/facts_about_positioning_services




[edited by - MarcDM on December 8, 2003 6:17:10 PM]

If I''m reading the idea right, its sortof like the "Pox" game where you wrote a virus that was sent wirelessly to everyone elses "Pox" console in the general area.

If you didn''t want to have people wondering all over the city, you could make a smaller version that could be played in an office building. For example, your game device activates when you get in the same floor as another player.

quote: Original post by AcRiD_aCiD

in college...actually we are just supposed to come up with the concept only....and since my country is pretty small(look for Singapore in a map and see if you can spot it at first glance) i suppose my game is possible..

Wauw, you are learning that in college? That''s pretty need. What else do you learn there? What kind of education are you following?

So how''s Singapore doing on the mobile gaming market? Are ''location based games'' like botfighters being played overthere?

Kind Regards,
Marc

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