A new game for the iphone (and phones running google android) will make use of cell phone's GPS to radically change player experience. The game designers have essentially made a parallel universe that maps on to reality (apparently making use of google maps)- where you are in real life coordinates with where your character is in the game. Since the game, Parallel Kingdom, is an rpg, this means that as you walk around your community (in real life) you fight with creatures and other players (in game life), collect items that you need (magic rings in game life and groceries in real life) until you accumulate a healthy reputation as the strongest nerd in your neighborhood (mostly just in real life).
Your morning commute is transformed into a perilous voyage into enemy territory. The necessity to walk your dog becomes a trading mission with your friendly neighbors. Basically, it allows you to convert all your daily tasks into opportunities to express your utter nerdiness. If WoW took some lives (in real life), just imagine what this could do...
If you're really excited about this, then you can get started with a simple game based on similar technology- you don't even need an iphone. Your mission: try to kill all those people with iphones by setting traps in a digital universe...
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