After spending the majority of last week laying in bed with a massive temperature doped up on codine, i have finally regained the will to live! I know… *Much merriment and rejoicing in the castle*.. In this blog ideas on my application will be indicated in bold.. while the rest is merely blabber and self pitty. Enjoy!
so far i have been having ideas, and thoughts about interviews and surveys:
luckily enough for me i am associated with some vey interesting people who not only enjoy spending their evenings in virtual worlds battling dwarfes, but they also enjoy the outdoors: hiking, sailing etc…. it’s these hybrids who I believe are my user group, mainly and I may be sterotyping, but they are the type of people who enjoy Geo-Caching.
When you live out where I do it’s really not uncommon for these hybrids to exist, considering that we live right next to the most beautiful natural bushland (the trees aren’t blue by the way!).
we are currently on break from the manotony of ideas presentations. Its pretty good to listen to peoples ideas and hear suggestions as well as remember the people who have ideas similar to yours… I’m hearing whispers of COLLABORATION people! but it’s very difficult to sit for so long… you all agree with me!! haha. I think it’s going to be very very dark by the time I get home.
Which makes me really like martha’s idea. because I often have to wait for about 30 to 40 mins regularly for a train. which pretty much doubles my “travel time”. It would be really nice to know when I have missed a train so that I can occupy myself with something more entertaining than watching the city rail cleaning crew patrol the platforms at central!
Kaz also sugested an interesting method to allocating points, which would require waiting untill the iphone had a GPS but it would make the game considerably more interesting. By attatching a GPS location to the image (which is not visible to any players), a tally can begin on how many people (who have the GPS of their phone added to the site) walking past the point where the photo was taken will add points up.
So the more people who play the game, that walk past this point, the more points that the person who assigned the photo is given!