Concept - Live action supreme commander

[sobrique]

OK, imagine this as a game concept:
In supreme commander, conceptually you're the 'commander' and you can build
stuff, and give it orders. You're gated in from a quantum gate, and have a
limited amount of portable mass and energy storage and generation.

You use an onboard 'build' capability to start production of power plants,
factories, mass extractors and so on and so forth, gradually amassing and
army to take over the world.

Now, what if that went 'live action', a bit more MMO style?
I'm thinking mobile phone, GPS, 'google maps' for route finding, and
something like wikipedia or wikimapia to control locations of stuff.

So you, as the commander, could be physically present outside e.g. Coventry
Cathedral, and 'build' some defenses, and capture it as a resource point.

And someone else coming along would be able to assault your defenses, but
might need to 'summon up' some tanks from their factory, or aircraft or
something, in order to do so.
Aircraft can, of course, fly direct and quite quickly, where tanks might have
to use some kind of route finder (google?) to get there, eventually.

I think we're getting there - I think this is right on the edge of being feasible. What do you think?

Comments

[xarrion.livejournal.com]

That idea is ranked 'A' for Awesome!

Fire up a wave on it :D

[phyrbyrd.livejournal.com]

I think anyone playing this in public would probably be arrested as a suspected terrorist in quite short order.

[syntheticbrain.livejournal.com]

You could have graduated access to the world. On a smart phone with sufficient gps/direction finding/graphics you could have an AR client - overlaying RL structures with graphics (sufficient soom it's an icon with a direction). On a less-smart phone you could just have an icon on a map.

I'd move away from supreme commander (if nothing else you don't want to have to licence someone else's IP) and do it a s a very straight faced "aliens among us" type thing - the software modifies your phone so it can see theta waves (the graphics don't improve - sensors get better over time).

Check out an android game called hidden kingdom - your ability to do things is limited to your RL location but it's a fantasy "overlay" with no real world interaction.

You could actually use this game to collect geotagged photos to build a 3d model of the world (if there's no photo of something it's still in the "fog of war") - both M$ and Google have photo aggregation projects underway. Not to mention it being really good fun.

On the downside it probably needs next gen phones with low power gps (that can regularly track position without eating the battery) to get the most out of it.