Resurrecting Location-Based Games - 位置情報ベースの歴史と考察

携帯端末の出現がから始まった位置情報ベースのさまざまなシステムやアプリケーション。その性能や精度は高まる一方だ。ゲームの世界にも大きく影響を与え続けている。このような内容をまとめた記事が有ったので忘れないよう紹介。

Today’s guest post comes to us from David Bisceglia, Founder and CEO of  The Tap Lab, a mobile game studio focusing on location-based titles. His article focuses on what developers of these types of games can learn from previous titles in the genre.

Many of us grew up playing classic backyard games like Capture the Flag, Pickle and Marco Polo. The digital variant of these games are known as location-based games, a genre that has been around for over a decade.

A Brief History of Location-Based Games

In 1999, the first mobile phones with GPS hit the market. This set the course for the pioneers of location-based games. Dodgeball, one of the first location-based social networks, and a GPS-driven scavenger hunt called Geocaching both came to market in 2000. The major map data providers, Google Maps and Open Street Maps, were established by 2005 and the launch of iPhone and Android phones with GPS soon followed. From 2009-2010, venue data providers including Google Places, Foursquare and Factual placed the final piece of the puzzle for the mobile games we see today.

(via & more http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2013/02/01/guest-post-resurrecting-location-based-games/)