MapAttack!
MapAttack is a location-based game based on capturing and conquering virtual points on live city streets.
Two teams compete to capture the most points on the gameboard. The gameboard, in this case, is the city streets of the neighborhood the players are in. To play, all you need is a phone (Android running 2.2 or later and iPhone 3GS or later) a city street, park or college campus, and some friends.
How To Play
What do you need?
- iPhone 3GS or newer, or Android 2.2
- A neighborhood or park
- A group of 4-20 people you can play with
How long is the game?
Games can last anywhere from 20 min to 1½ hours depending on the size of the game board and total dots in the game.
Why play MapAttack?
It's a great way to run around with friends and feel like a kid again. MapAttack suddenly turns your neighborhood or city into a playground!
About MapAttack!
Why Build a Real-Time Geofencing Game?
We wanted to create a game that allowed people to physically interact with the real world instead of a computer console like a first person shooter or a real-time strategy game.
We were inspired by playing a real-life version of Pac-Man called Pacmanhattan, invented by graduate students at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU in 2004. We played it at Portland WhereCamp conference in 2008, and we wanted to see if we could make a GPS-based version of the game, as Pacmanhattan relied entirely on phone calls and physical maps.
From our Blog
Source Code
For a look behind the technology used in MapAttack, see Building a Real-Time Location-Based Urban Geofencing Game with Socket.io, Redis, Node.js and Sinatry Synchrony!
You can download or fork the source code for MapAttack on Github! If you build anything interesting with it, please let us know!
iPhone
- Objective C
Android
- Java
Website
- Ruby, Sinatra
Contact Us
Bring MapAttack to your city, school or company!
Want to bring a game to your school or company? Contact us at play@mapattack.org and we'll be glad to help you out! You can also follow @playmapattack on Twitter for the latest games and news! We'll be bringing it to more campuses and cities starting in June 2011.