A quickie for a Friday evening…
Check out megaphone for a very cool, completely addictive and (probably) easy to implement idea: using your phone as a controller for enormous video screens. It’s collaborative gameplay just like those Saturday morning TV shows we used to watch (“down a little bit…SHOOT!”) only a whole bundle better. As the makers point out, it’s unprecedented in scale and can be played across multiple locations.
I’m guessing it uses phone tones as the controlling method: advantage – no installs, no specialist phones, no limits on network.
First one to implement it in a museum context wins 50p…
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froberto
November 17, 2007
Would be a bit pointless in a museum context, where you could just have wired controllers instead (saving players the cost of the phone call).
Nice idea for clubs, bars, and outdoor venues though.
Mike
November 17, 2007
I dunno, I reckon for multiplayer stuff (think Science Museum IMAX cinema kind of size) you could get much bigger scale than inbuilt controllers. No wear and tear for in-house kit, plus I bet you could do something interesting and social with the numbers you get from the system. Reckon the phone call could presumably be freephone..?