I Also Want to Play GPS::Tron!
31 January 2005 in Phones & Pocket PC | Comments enabled
Do you remember the game Tron from the days of playing it on the C64 and Amiga? Well, I do and can’t forget the fun that was. Now, someone with a bunch of sparetime on their hands have upped the ante for Tron gaming and brought it out from the 2 dimensional world to the 3D (or 4D if you believe in Einstein’s theories) and made it into GPS::Tron.
So, the game now takes place in the real world with GPS statellites tracking your movements and using GPRS (or some other datatransfer method) puts the location of you on a gaming server while retrieving the location of the opponent and updating your game view. This currently works only on Nokia and Siemens phones, but I assume that we’ll see this ported to many other platforms shortly (that is when this gets widely popular).
Now I’m just furious at the Finnish GSM operators for having some unusually high GPRS data prices for the moment. Maybe some more GPS::Tron gaming would bring the friggin’ price down… 
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