Augmented reality Night Ops game
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:34 pm
So have you guys heard of this game called Ingress? It's an Android app that uses augmented reality for your smart phone. Basically, it turns the real world into a game and you go around in real life and hack portals and shit.
Now what if we take the general concept, give it legal disregard and feed it a little meth, to come up with an augmented reality app for opping? Imagine we take the truth or dare idea and the Ingress idea, and you could get a bad-ass game where operatives aim to infiltrate a particular target, thereby completing the dare. Once this is done they get points to set similarly difficult dares for other operatives to complete. All highly illegal, of course, and posing significant issues - but I'm sure this community is small enough for something like this to work - at least in some capacity.
Now the goals also need not be related to opping. Man, imagine we made an app for graffiti. You get points in the game by completing missions. Missions are defined by doing a particular piece of urban tagging containing your unique message and submitting a photo of your finished work to verify completion. Once verified, you get points and become an adjudicator for someone else allowing you to set a challenge. Hence self-regulating. Augmented reality is fucking kick-ass and takes us to the whole next level. It works so well for like every crime, this is Totse 2.0.
Another thing, we could have more personal goals to complete for the game - kind of like quests. This would be a non-competitive or collaborative version of dares, but I suppose a more diverse variety. It wouldn't be so strictly based on simply getting to a place. It would be more like "complete a 5 mile run in under ... minutes" under the fitness challenges or "ask a hot girl to a date" under psychology. The tasks also wouldn't be so verifiable - they wouldn't need to be since you would only be cheating yourself which doesn't make much sense.
The advantage of the above system is we could actually map out a real life skill tree relating to operating. Traversing the skill tree would therefore show new operatives what they know, what they don't know, and things they could/should know depending on hierarchy and position in the tree. Very useful. Now combine the skill tree with interactive field guides on operating with tutorials and helpful advice and you have yourself a world-class knowledge system and perhaps the most awesome app ever fucking made.
What do you think Nightops? What concepts would make for a kick-ass app for opping? Share any related ideas and concepts. Let's brain storm some awesome shit and I'll start working on the best idea.
Edit: Feel free to suggest other ideas for augmented reality apps. Be creative. This has genre has such huge potential The graffiti app was an example.
Disclaimer: My coding skills are god-like as are my entrepreneurial abilities. I can make this shit if we define it and it will be successful.
Now what if we take the general concept, give it legal disregard and feed it a little meth, to come up with an augmented reality app for opping? Imagine we take the truth or dare idea and the Ingress idea, and you could get a bad-ass game where operatives aim to infiltrate a particular target, thereby completing the dare. Once this is done they get points to set similarly difficult dares for other operatives to complete. All highly illegal, of course, and posing significant issues - but I'm sure this community is small enough for something like this to work - at least in some capacity.
Now the goals also need not be related to opping. Man, imagine we made an app for graffiti. You get points in the game by completing missions. Missions are defined by doing a particular piece of urban tagging containing your unique message and submitting a photo of your finished work to verify completion. Once verified, you get points and become an adjudicator for someone else allowing you to set a challenge. Hence self-regulating. Augmented reality is fucking kick-ass and takes us to the whole next level. It works so well for like every crime, this is Totse 2.0.
Another thing, we could have more personal goals to complete for the game - kind of like quests. This would be a non-competitive or collaborative version of dares, but I suppose a more diverse variety. It wouldn't be so strictly based on simply getting to a place. It would be more like "complete a 5 mile run in under ... minutes" under the fitness challenges or "ask a hot girl to a date" under psychology. The tasks also wouldn't be so verifiable - they wouldn't need to be since you would only be cheating yourself which doesn't make much sense.
The advantage of the above system is we could actually map out a real life skill tree relating to operating. Traversing the skill tree would therefore show new operatives what they know, what they don't know, and things they could/should know depending on hierarchy and position in the tree. Very useful. Now combine the skill tree with interactive field guides on operating with tutorials and helpful advice and you have yourself a world-class knowledge system and perhaps the most awesome app ever fucking made.
What do you think Nightops? What concepts would make for a kick-ass app for opping? Share any related ideas and concepts. Let's brain storm some awesome shit and I'll start working on the best idea.
Edit: Feel free to suggest other ideas for augmented reality apps. Be creative. This has genre has such huge potential The graffiti app was an example.
Disclaimer: My coding skills are god-like as are my entrepreneurial abilities. I can make this shit if we define it and it will be successful.