Find Me – an ARG you can play with your kids
By Alfie • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Art, Features, GPS, LBS, Society, mobile_imaging, networksI recently created and last night launched http://moblog.net/findme for Demos.co.uk who are collaborating with http://TED.com on the http://XDRTB.org campaign. Here is more info on the project:
To highlight the XDRTB.org campaign we have devised a unique blend of Puzzle solving, Mobile blogging and geolocation.
GPSdrawing (reference http://gpsdrawing.com) is “digital mark-making with satellite navigation technology”. What we are doing is using map markers to draw a macro image on a google map rather than one single line drawn using a Tom Tom or other navigator.
The markers each contain and represent a media “node” at which a piece of media has been posted that has a direct relationship to the macro image that is being drawn.
We are inviting people to hunt out the 43 objects we have scattered over London and post them to the site. People will create this macro GPS artwork through solving clues to find the objects, photographing them and then uploading them to the site with mapping co-ordinates provided on the object, and at 43 participating blogs.
Each of the objects contains a letter, and when each marker has been uploaded all of the letters together spell out a question. Participants are invited to work out what that question is with prizes from Moo.com, and Nokia, as well as two tickets to James Nachtweys launch party on the 30th October.
Using map markers to create macro artworks on web maps is a novel and unique innovation in GPS drawing. In combination with a simple and accessible puzzle style gameplay and mobile blogging, we hope that this idea will spread far and wide, creating a new form of self or group expression, and help create a new audience for casual city games.
The URL for this project is: http://moblog.net/map/blog/findme/ – and the clues went live at midnight last night (this morning?)
If you live in London, why not come join the fun?
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