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Urban Gaming is the branch of computer games that combines real-world GPS and hand-held computers, like PDAs and cellphones. This originally began with Geocaching , but changed to incorperate multiplayer techniques, where a virtual gaming world is superimposed onto a real location. The upshot of this is that people receive information from their computers, and run around town with other people playing the games, much like a complex game of tag. Some games are old games like pac-man, where the pac-man follows a series of virtual dots, evading other people (ghosts). If the person touches a street post, however, it is counted as a power pellet, and the pac-man can chase down the ghosts. It has some advantages like exercise and very interactive multiplayers, but some serious disadvantages like blindspots in the sattelite network. Uncle Roy all around You is a new urban game. "Street" Players have an hour to find Uncle Roy by following instructions or clues fed to them via cell phone text messages. But every time a street player moves, the positioning technology on his phone transmits his location to a map of the city, allowing other players to track and hunt him down. Meanwhile, a group of actors follow street players like spies, manipulating them in their quest to find Roy. Another game played on the streets is the classic game of Pac-Man, now named Pac-Manhattan it is just like a real game of pacman except played on the streets of manhattan. The game is made up of the controllers, who control the movement of the characters, and the characters themselves, who play the actuall game. See Street Game for other games played on city streets. |
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