SUSPECT:A phone-based dossier sets the scene
NFC specialist Proxama has devised a hi-tech version of a traditional murder mystery game that is designed to show businesses how easy it is to use NFC tag reading to transfer information to mobile phone users.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Proxama unveils #NFC Murder Mystery #game • NFC World
Monday, March 14, 2011
Apple, Google, Intel and Others Go Gaga for the Go Game | Fast Company
You might say that the Go Game, an iPhone game launching this week at SXSW, is the best-researched project in the history of location games. Founders Ian Fraser and Finnegan Kelly have spent the last 10 years running a hacked-together version of the game at corporate team-building events for Google, Apple, EA Games, Zynga, Facebook, Microsoft, and Intuit.
"The managers at Intuit, the guys that do TurboTax--they love it too," says Fraser. And apparently so does every other company in the Valley. In fact, the Go Game is already pulling down $3 million per annum in revenue without any apps at all.
Until this week, the game worked like this: Your business would hire Fraser and Kelly to come out to your company's home city for a party or event, where they'd build a game for anywhere from a few dozen to a few thousand employees. They spent time before game-day traversing the neighborhood you select for the game and setting up what the founders call a "textured scavenger hunt." (Depending on the complexity of the game, your company pays $50 to $100 per player.)
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Following Facebook’s Most Recent Changes, Developers Worry About Virality
The changes can be boiled down to six major points (further explained in our earlier post and live blog):
- Automatic app bookmarking
- New left-hand side dashboard navigation for games
- Collapsed stories about apps will be expanded back into multiple feed items for gamers
- Updated policies
- No more feed items about apps for non-gamers
- A new feed item about games, called discovery stories