The City is Your Playground

The concept of recording your location isn’t exactly groundbreaking. Some services, such as Loopt, have been around since 2005. What is new is taking that information and turning into an engaging game within any city. With the addition of achievements and prizes, a person “checking-in” as it’s known within these apps, now has incentives. There are a handful of services that currently look at Cities as giant game boards. The father of this concept is Foursquare , the little cousin of Dodgeball

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The City is Your Playground

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