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.
via laughing squid
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
It may not be the most innovative idea ever, but this live version of Angry Birds was probably really fun to produce. Plus it’s always interesting to see the translation of an online experience into the physical world — it definitely started a party in Barcelona!
Contributed by Collin Whitehead
PBS explores ways to adapt classroom education for kids growing up in a digital world.
Watch the full episode. See more Digital Media – New Learners Of The 21st Century.
Clever game site from B-Reel takes you through different online worlds.
Great execution on a nice idea.
http://pleasurehunt.mymagnum.com
Contributed by Caio Lazzuri
Its hard to describe how important portable entertainment is. These classics bring back lots of memories for me.
Any familiar to you?
Contributed by Jeremy Adirim and Leila Coffman
Tipp-Ex, a European correction fluid (aka white-out) brings YouTube to life in a very interesting way by allowing the viewer to choose their own outcome.
The actor in the video also interacts with a banner on the brand channel page which is very cool.
It’s like choose your own adventure meets YouTube meets Subservient Chicken.
Mayorama, a new iphone app designed by Daniel Luxemburg, makes it easier than ever to maintain and multiple your Foursquare mayor-ships.
With the 99-cent Mayorama app, you can check on your current mayorships, find out how many more check-ins will earn you mayor at your favorite spots around town and, using the smartphone’s GPS, you can see all the Foursquare venues around you in a list and plotted on a map.
When viewing these nearby venues (dubbed “targets”), the application will also display how many check-ins are required in order to become mayor. This lets competitive users easily find new venues in need of a mayor.
(via ReadWriteWeb)
For those interested in capitalizing on the deal function of Foursquare, Mayorama gives you added ability to protect and increase your current deals. For those interested in location-based gaming, Mayorama opens up entirely new territories for conquering.
Get the app: Mayorama.
EpicWin is a new iPhone app that transforms mundane tasks into an immersive role playing game.
Interesting to see the badges model being used to motivate useful activities. The app is scheduled to be released on the 19th, but you can get the latest updates from the EpicWin twitter.
DefCon is the world’s largest hacker convention.
For this year’s convention, elite hacker gang, the Ninjas, have created an interactive role-playing game that is played through specially designed badges, distributed only to those invited to their private party.
One of the most exclusive venues for fraternizing at DefCon is the Ninja party. To attend the party attendees have to know one of the Ninjas and they have to give them a badge.
In years past, a Ninja would give a party attendee a sticker or a paper invite that would get them in to the party. Last year the Ninjas took the party invite to the next level when they created their own custom badge for their party attendees. This year, badge designers Amanda Wozniak and Brandon Creighton decided to take the badge to the next level, and then some. What started as a sketch on a napkin ended up as an amazing hacker gaming and development platform.
(Via Wired)
The badge combines an old school look and feel with cutting edge features, such as the ability to wirelessly communicate with other badges.
In order to fund these extravagant badges, Ninja got funding from Facebook and Lookout:
In order to test the game while the badges were being developed, the Ninjas used the iPhone app SDK:
And to top it all off, the badge comes with an instruction manual that almost exactly mirrors the original NES manual:
All of this makes my “Adventurer” badge on Foursquare seem pretty.. dated.