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General: Shadow Cities: Like Nothing Ever Seen
SBFord
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At last week's GDC, MMORPG.com columnist Drew Wood met with the founders of Grey Area. Mikko Hämäläinen and Ville Vesterinen are working with their team to make an iOS MMO unlike anything you've ever seen before. Called Shadow Cities, the game is called a "location-based MMO". You need to read this one, folks. Let us know what you think in the comments.
Literally, this is taking place in your backyard and is, again literally, a Global battle. If you are in San Francisco, for example, and you have friends in Glasgow, Scotland, you could build a Beacon in Union Square and your Scottish friends could jump through the Beacon and join you in the fight for Union Square, and vice-versa. Your ultimate goal is to conquer neighborhoods in the name of your chosen faction.
Read more of Drew Wood's Shadow Cities: Like Nothing Ever Seen.
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That sounds like a pretty interesting game. I love the "Drive-by casting" bit!
Sadly I don't have such a device
Yes, please port it to Android. It might be fun to mess with on a rainy day.
It's always fun to have something like this, via the touch of a finger. I'm rather interested, thanks for sharing!
Okay now THIS makes me want a smartphone rather than my generic little cell.
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That's actually pretty interesting.
I would market this on college campuses....imagine THOSE battles!
pretty cool but the game kind of look weak
Looks cool I'm afraid I'll get kicked out if I try. Happened with LARP, they said I hit too hard!! Freaking padded PVC weapons??!! isn't that the point?
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Parallel Kingdom has been up and running on iOS and Android for a while now, so Shadow Cities definitely isn't the first but I like the look of it a little more. PK is pretty much just google maps with icons stuck on top of it.
oh well for those uf us who refuse to buy such a device it does nothing.
Sounds like fun but I'm not a cell phone person. Have fun you all.
Overall sounds pretty cool. I can definately see this sort of game genre ramping up quickly with the advancement of smart phone generations. Afterall smartphones are nothing more than small mobile computers with internet access that can easily communitcate with other people. As these phones get more powerfull the games will become richer.
Bring it on Android and i'll give it a go.
Already seens 2 games like this on... android.
Check the market app since the android start and you'll see yourself.
Looks interesting as technololy gets more advanced i guess so does the way you game.
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If anyone knows if this will be coming to a device running Android please link that. The iPay isn't that interesting to me.
wow this sounds like loads of fun...ill get a iphone just to play it.......maybe
Highly dull game actually after playing few times. There is other games available that do much better job using location base.
Playing the game and having a lot of fun.. The devs are still planning on adding a lot of stuff but it's still already pretty addictive.. The community is great (at least on the animators side).. Great game...
... But why isn't it in the Game List.. ?
Innovative using the GPS function. The concept does not grab me of conquering locales but interested in how it pans out.
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Released in App Store today in US. Interested to hear ppl's remarks?
Good effort on the devs for being innovative & gl !
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem