We’ve gamed a long way from two dimensions.
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Some folks at MIT hacked a building to play Tetris on the side of it.
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5th Ave Frogger is a hacked version of Frogger pulling in real-time 5th Ave traffic as game data. If you’re in New York this weekend, you can play.
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You may have noticed we have had a birdhouse hanging here at gspdigital.com housing a pair of birds from Audubon’s Birding the Net contest that we at GSP have been a part of. It’s not too late to start birding, in fact, the competition is just beginning to heat up. Get started by rolling over a bird above or visit the game on Facebook.
Satisfy your craving for mystery and intrigue mixed into daily routine with Gumshoe:
Challenge your friends to a virtual race around the world with this clever Facebook app. An advergame for Mini France, MINI Maps lets you design your own racing vehicle and then zoom through life-like cities thanks to satellite images from Google maps.
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8-Bit Invaders is just a simulation, but seems like a stellar idea to project a video game on building. Making it playable would be even cooler.
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contributed by Sosia Bert
What do you get when you combine the mystical World of Warcraft with Foursquare?
World of Fourcraft uses the Google maps API and Foursquare to transform New York into a huge, WOW-inspired, multi-player strategy game fueled by check-ins. New Yorkers: declare your allegiance to a borough today!
As it’s well-put by Mashable, “the nerdverse might just explode.”
Via Mashable
Pick n’ Play is an interactive OOH game that allows users to play Pong against each other on a digital billboard from their mobile devices. It’s a web-based not application so it doesn’t require a download – hooray for cross platform! It also geo-validates you, providing “winners” with a McDonald’s coupon to redeem.
Contributed by Jeremy Adirim
Typing Skills + Shooting = Fun
I kept waiting for subliminal messages to come through in the words which fell down.
This would be a lot harder if the words were all captcha codes. That would be challenging, but would it be as fun?
http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/
