Ludicidal Tendencies

Hi, I'm posting this for Joe, Melanie and Jeremy because Joe doesn't have an account yet ...

GPS enabled game types brainstorming:
While our brainstorming session did not run its full course, we still have a few things that seem to be in the right direction.

MMO conspiracy:
Use your GPS enabled mobile gaming device to find average people with not so average roles in the game. Your seven eleven clerk could be your next informant or mark.. or you could be his. You'll never know until you speak the pass phrase to him. This type of game would allow people to experience the intrigue of a detective or spy story by simply communicating with other people in person. Possible directions for this game include finding the 'head' of the conspiracy group, discovering a secret plot to , or simply meeting new people via a passphrase (once youve met them and spoken your phrases, you both check in and get new targets and phrases).

Continental board games:
Not only are you a piece, the board is your state(, country, or continent).
To make the next move, someone must report from specific geographic coordinates corresponding to a place on the game-board overlay of a territory (size may vary). Requires little to no interaction with strangers except perhaps online somehow to determine how and by whom the next move will be made.

MMO scavenger or person hunts:
Each person has a goal, be it gathering items scattered around a map area or finding a person using their last known GPS coordniates. Goals can very from attempting to track someone down to simple collection. There was a precedent mentioned where the goal of the game is simply to collect things from random locations.

(new addition)
Virtual graffiti:
Players of this game can take pictures of specific GPS locations and modify them with their own overlaid art (think MS paint style). The graffiti is archived at a site online where users can check for existing art at nodes all over a city. Players would have the option of graffiti-ing over an existing graffiti just like you'd expect in a real graffiti-art battle. This game requires not only a GPS enabled mobile gaming device but one with a camera as well. There would be ways to find art by user as well as by location on the website so fans of an artist can see all of his "works" throughout the city.