Wi-Fi Gaming

JeremyZiff writes "Wi-Fi Toys is a featured article on ExtremeTech that shows you how you and your friends can run around your city and play six nifty games with a Wi-Fi connection. From games like Capture the Flag to Treasure Hunt, you'll never look at Wi-Fi the same again."

Awesome

[Ghost429]

But I'm still waiting for wireless dodgeball...

Re:Awesome

[holymoo]

with enough wifi nodes, you could play a massive game of minesweeper too.

Smoking and Video Games

[MiceHead]

These games come in many forms, such as a "fox and hounds" game, capture the flag, or a treasure hunt.

In the 1973 Woody Allen comedy, Sleeper [imdb.com], it was cigarettes that turned out to promote health. Now, we have instances where video games [ddrfreak.com] promote physical activity [pacmanhattan.com].

I think (hope!) that we'll be reading in Wired about a young entrepreneur who turns this into a viable business, either as a service, where games are hosted professionally (as in MMORPGs), or as a product, where games are purchased and played on a peer-to-peer basis (as in most retail games). Perhaps I'm looking at this through rose-colored glasses, (I miss playing laser tag as a kid), but I think this has the potential to turn out some fantastic stuff.
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a "fox and hounds" game

[pluke]

I can see an opportunity in these guys [bbc.co.uk] give them six weeks.

Safe war-driving

[Datamonstar]

TFA is kinda neat, includeing some geeky fun that encourages real-world social activities. It mentions "safe" war-driving, as in always having a passenger who operates the laptop for the driver. A lil too geeky for me, but still a lot more fun than configuring a wi-fi setup.

might be fun

[Ben Struferga]

If you combine that with one of those real-life Roleplaying games that use entire cities as their playground, it might actually be fun to try. I can almost see all the geeks bumping into each other...

Re:might be fun

[Ben Struferga]

theres at least two of them taking place in leipzig, germany. The players meet on a regular basis in various locations and tend to have plots that involve travelling to a lot of different places in the city for quests etc. There are a special events as well, the last one lasted 3 days and took place in an actual castle. I dont know any in the states though and google turns up nothing There is a website at http://www.traumschmiede.com/ for the local community, its in german though and i think they might

Are there any AP-Gaming clubs/organizations?

[maxogden]

Is there a 'main site' which possibly lists AP events going on around the country? I'm wondering if there are enough people who already partake in these events locally so that I could contact them instead of trying to pioneer the effort myself.

sounds geeky to me

[fredopalus]

Only slashdot geeks would go to that extent to play video games.

Running around playing a CTF game instead of ACTUALLY playing Capture the Flag with REAL PEOPLE...

Makes perfect sense to me.

Re:sounds geeky to me

[superpulpsicle]

I am still waiting for the Wi-Fi invasion where it's me and my buddies versus 1000 Wi-Fi monsters.

Won't someone think of the children!?

[Dutchmaan]

Just wait until one of these games causes an auto accident!!! LEGIONS of paranoid mothers and anti-gaming groups will call for the end of Wi-Fi because it's too dangerous for the children, THE CHILDREN!!!

Re:Won't someone think of the children!?

[Ben Struferga]

that might replace the old truck stickers,

"How am I playing? Call 0-800-GAME"

Cool.

[deemaunik]

One step closer to my direct cerebral connection into WoW while I'm autopiloted to and from work, groomed via robot, and fed intravenously my suppliment of caffeine and nutrients. Life will be grand.

Actually, we play a better game

[SmurfButcher Bob]

called "Get the the neighbor arrested".

It's real easy - we each pick a victim, we each point our little waveguides at our victim's AP, and we each see who can get the cops to show up and arrest the victim, first.

Perhaps not today, but I'll wager that by end of year... the above joke won't just be a fiction, and it scares the willies out of me for some reason.

Wifi/GPS gaming

[Sinus0idal]

Lancaster Uni in the UK experimented with a 'Real Tournament' game using toy guns, ipaqs, wifi, gps, gprs and an electronic compass. Info here: http://www.mobileipv6.net/rt/handsets.htm/ [mobileipv6.net] The users position and direction is shown on the screen on a predetermined map and the user can fire at another user depending on the compass direction etc. If the user roams out of wifi range, IPV6 automatically hands off to GPRS. Clever stuff.

Re:Wifi/GPS gaming

[Sinus0idal]

http://www.mobileipv6.net/rt/handsets.htm [mobileipv6.net]

Your Friends

[ClownsScareMe]

...shows you how you and your friends can run around your city

My what?

And this is news, why?

[Myself]

Okay, hams have been playing fox-hunts for decades, and 802.11 is just another digital mode. What's the breakthrough here?

Try setting your phone number as the SSID and see who calls. (Works best with a throwaway number, of course.)

This is a good way to advertise geek gatherings. A pocket-sized AP perched near your local 2600 meeting works fine. As far as I know, Notacon, the technology conference [notacon.org] is planning to toss a few APs up around Cleveland with SSIDs along the lines of "IfYouCanReadThisComeToTheHoli

Re:And this is news, why?

[murat]

In my apartment complex there's an SSID which is "bring food and beer #b308" among some others. (It's an unsecured network. Duh.)

Nintendo DS

[igorthefiend]

Isn't this essentially the kind of thing the Nintendo DS should be able to do?

Another fun game:

[drinkypoo]

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