Guerrilla Jogging
Jeldrik Schmuch, Ulrike Gollner, Walter Ruprechtsberger
Game in public spaces, 2008
Interface Cultures
*Guerrilla Jogging* is an interactive GPS-location based mobile game for one or more players that runs on pocket PCs and smart phones. In a virtual paper chase the player has to reach virtual points by moving him/herself in the real world to the corresponding GPS position as fast as possible. For every point reached the player gains bonus points according to the passed altitude. By using the height as a filter it becomes possible to compare the efforts of different competitions in various terrains. After finishing the game the personal high score can be uploaded to a website where statistics of the personal achievements and a ranking of all users are shown. In a further step it will be possible to connect to a server playing against others in real time. The first player to reach a point gets the bonus point. Again the linking of the bonus points to altitude makes it possible to compare the efforts of the different players. *Guerrilla Jogging* is programmed under GNU public license and everyone should feel free to use the source code for his/her own projects or, even better, to add more functionality to the existing
game logic.
Game in public spaces, 2008
Interface Cultures
*Guerrilla Jogging* is an interactive GPS-location based mobile game for one or more players that runs on pocket PCs and smart phones. In a virtual paper chase the player has to reach virtual points by moving him/herself in the real world to the corresponding GPS position as fast as possible. For every point reached the player gains bonus points according to the passed altitude. By using the height as a filter it becomes possible to compare the efforts of different competitions in various terrains. After finishing the game the personal high score can be uploaded to a website where statistics of the personal achievements and a ranking of all users are shown. In a further step it will be possible to connect to a server playing against others in real time. The first player to reach a point gets the bonus point. Again the linking of the bonus points to altitude makes it possible to compare the efforts of the different players. *Guerrilla Jogging* is programmed under GNU public license and everyone should feel free to use the source code for his/her own projects or, even better, to add more functionality to the existing
game logic.
