A case of the Mondays with Garfield GO
I got a spam press release about a new augmented reality game with geolocation elements based on a hot new property: Garfield. I HAD to investigate further.
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Category: Unusual Experiences
Seeking THE MUMMY
Lured by their promotion of THE MUMMY movie I checked out the geolocation based SEEK augmented reality game. Sorry, Tom Cruise, but this didn’t help.
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Turn Metro’s logo into poop.
Using augmented reality I’ve set it up so you can turn Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority’s logo into the smiling poop emoji.
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GeoGearheads Podcast
I was a guest on the GeoGearHeads podcast to talk about the intersection of geolocation gaming and storytelling! Please give it a listen.
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Origins and running code
I started my illustrious geocaching career on a whim, sparked by CODERUNNER, a game that I didn’t even play until five years later.
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Ill-thought Hidden
I explore the OUTTHINK HIDDEN augmented reality, location-based app built to promote the HIDDEN FIGURES movie.
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Geocaching Robot
I’ve created a Twitter bot about geocaching! Also wrote a quick post about how the idea came to be and lessons learned.
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Turning any page
I recently finished a book, ARCADIA, by Iain Pears which turned out to be astonishingly good. A bit about it and the accompanying interactive fiction app.
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Don’t pick up the phone
I dove into the Mr. Robot TV show after learning that an app, a work of interactive fiction, was being released as a promotion for the show. I downloaded Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n.ipa to my phone and got to hacking.
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Fermented Fun
Like pickles? Have I got a dystopian society for you! I review PICKLE INDEX, another piece of interactive fiction from Sudden Oak.
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