Wednesday, December 24. 2008

Location-based Leaderboard for iPhone Apps

Remember the episode of Seinfeld where George wants to keep the Frogger game on which he holds the high score? Fast forward to today's phone-based games and there's no such thing - until now. Cambridge, Mass based Geocade is offering a platform do create location-based leaderboards for iPhone (soon Android, too and Symbian) games. The game company puts a few lines of code into it and the system keeps track using location information from GPS. Thus players know who's "tops" in the local area. The business model? "Advertising can be incorporated, with Geocade sharing the revenues with partner developers..."

The idea of competing with your dorm, school, town, in teams, etc. is interesting. So is location-based advertising to go with the app. There's a free game available to see how Geocade works; it's called "Soft Landing."

- via PocketGamer

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Social Networking, Apple at 08:58 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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