My website will be a sort of online-real-world game of hide and seek, as well as a guide through the city, maybe like a scavenger hunt. Accessed mainly by cellular phones that have both a camera and a connection to the internet, people will use the Semacode (http://semacode.org) application to capture “Sematags” and interpret them to get access to pages of my site that will be built specifically for mobile phones, palm pilots, and other such things.
The pages will consist of a small and vague map, a photo of a Sematag on some building, tree, or other object, and a nearby major intersection. Using these three items the viewer will then be able to seek out and continue the hunt for more tags around the city.
In addition to the hunting section of the “game” people will also be able to create and upload to the site their own pages and new locations, so the game can grow and be user controlled in a way. The hunt will be user directed and my web interface will mostly serve as a facilitation for the project to grow.
To control the user submitted pages I will hopefully be creating system that checks against a pre-defined template and allows the user to create a map of their chosen location using Google maps.
PLAN!
Week 1-2
Researching Semacode/Tag implementation
Researching web hosting
Researching WML and WAP
Google maps for map creation and php for user submission
Week 3-4
Creating site, interfaces, Sematags, researching locations.
Purchase hosting.
Week 5-?
Implementation.
Deploying Sematags, Getting attention to the project.
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I'm really attracted to the graphic quality of this proposal, and to the idea of creating a game. How does this relate to other GPS and geocaching projects? Murmur? Can you give some indication of the kind of content you would like to create or invite from your participants? Also, I think you might be interested in communicating with Andy about blogging options. Since you are both planning to work in augmented space, it might be an interesting conversation in terms of how to engage user participation.
I look forward to more on this project, and overall the idea of augmented space projects.
Oh, another idea. You might want to talk with David McIntosh (Liberal Studies, OCAD) about the "haunting" project that he is working on here at OCAD. Created for cellphones, the project explores ideas of collective and repressed memory in the form of a game I believe.
davidmci@sympatico.ca
I really like the idea behind this project. It reminds me a lot of Murmur, only more "techie" and specific to people "in the know".
While I do see the potential for "blogmapping", like a kind of blog with links to the external world, I don't think this particular project would benefit from a blog, as it has been described so far.
The one major concern I have is the current cost of internet via cell phones in Canada. I know with Rogers, the cost is astronomical... I'm not sure I'd be up for paying $3 to $5 each time I visit a link.
Looking forward to this project though. Can't wait to see more.
A7
Andy makes a good point - cellphone internet access is expensive. I'd like to know more details about cellphone internet stuff - hopefully you will be able to provide more information at your mid-term. Will the cost be a factor? Do you see work-arounds? I look forward to seeing how the project is moving along, especially the visual elements and game plan.
Let me know if there's anything specific you'd like to find out from Craig re: building the site, Flash, or anything else of programming interest to you.
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