The very first game for Google Glass from this mobile app development firm has been released.
Mind Pirate has just announced the launch of its Global Food Fight app, which is an augmented reality game that can run on Google Glass, smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches.
The game is a silly one that allows you to slingshot food at your friends, no matter where they may be on the globe.
This is among the first that are taking advantage of a new type of platform that has a range of different kinds of touch screens and sensors to provide a broad new augmented reality experience for players. The goal of Mind Pirate is to establish itself among the leaders in this new form of mobile gaming, even before this next generation of entertainment becomes mainstream.
This augmented reality is debuting simultaneously on Google Glass and iPhone.
That said, while it is getting its start on these two types of mobile devices, it will also launch on smartwatches and other forms of wearable technology. The Shawn Hardin, the chief exec at Mind Pirate, explained that Global Food Fight was constructed on Callisto, which is its own platform for wearables, making it a great deal simpler for them to be able to develop AR games.
The mobile app development firm explained that they are placing a considerable focus on the platform for wearable technology, including Google Glass. While they are not necessarily a mobile gaming company, Hardin stated that “we started with a game because, as a class of apps, it is one of the most popular you can make.” This recently released application, Global Food Fight, is being seen as a solid way to help to show off what their own platform is capable of accomplishing.
The augmented reality game app is free to play and is highly multiplayer, as well as using geolocation to add to the three dimensional action experience. It allows players to be able to look around within a 3D environment and locate various targets. These targets can be the player’s friends or enemies, or even politicians and celebrities from around the globe.
The location based technology is helping to ensure that gamers are adhering to state laws.
As a growing number of applications are integrating geolocation technology into their features, mobile app development companies are discovering that there are many new and undiscovered uses for this tech, and they are beginning to use them.
This has become especially handy in some industry sectors where regulations and laws change by state.
For example, New Jersey regulators have started to ease the laws when it comes to being able to gamble online and over mobile. However, the gamer still needs to be located within the state in order to abide by these regulations. Therefore, that industry is starting to use geolocation to an increasing degree to make sure that the people who want to use those particular mobile gaming apps are actually located where they say they are.
So far, geolocation technology is proving to be a reliable source of location information.
This is piquing the interest of a number of different types of mobile app development firms and mobile gaming companies that are seeing the growing potential of this technology. The location based tech uses cell phone signals in order to determine where the mobile device user is actually located – not where he or she claims to be
This helps to be able to ensure that people who are where they say they are will have full access to the services or mobile gaming opportunities that they want, and will assist in blocking people who are only pretending to be local – even if they are quite near to a state line but still outside of its border.
It is expected that the industries that are using this technology will only continue to grow as its implementation is better understood and as its accuracy continues to prove itself. This has already been celebrated by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, according to one of its spokespeople, Kerry Langan, but it is unlikely to stop there. That department is now working with the largest Location as a Service (Laas) company in the world, Locaid, as of November.
As other government departments and agencies, as well as private companies watch what geolocation technology does for that sector and with how much accuracy, it will continue to spread beyond simple mobile marketing opportunities.
