MBI Holodeck

I just came back from the Vienna Games Conference last weekend, and was impressed by the spectrum of topics this new scientific fields is using to understand the sense, trends and impact of gaming to our actual world. On the other side, gaming isn’t the only hot topic I like to follow: it’s gps-using online services and tools like Flickr, Google Earth, Bliin, among others.

On the crossroads of both developments is a new game called Parallel Kingdom, which takes advantage of the new series of GPS-enabled phones like iPhone or Nokia N95. It’s designed as a MMOG, mixing the actual position of the player (transmitted by the mobile phone) and some game-inherent objects, rules and stories. Although the graphics are not the best yet, it’s a trend to watch.

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