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When you’re saying “real world” you mean mobile devices where your actual position dictates your position in the game world, right?

I really like the idea of these. Ingress started out cool, but didn’t hold my interest. I think the actual play loop kinda sucked, but it built up a decent community around the novelty.

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PillowTalk420@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I want to encounter other players and have actual combat but there are apparently laws against that.

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- sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  just call it Boxing 2.0. It’ll be fine.
  
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  - Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I think dueling is still technically legal in a few places.
    
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    sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    This is starting to signs pretty awesome, tbh.
    
    It’s like Uber, but for random violence.
    
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- ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Bring two foam weapons with you, give one to opponent, have blast.
  
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douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah, location based as in you and the objects in the game are based on real world coordinates. The “grid” for the game is overlayed onto the real world

Same ingress lost its appeal after a while. The gameplay loop was shallow and repetitive. It was based around rather fast gameplay loops, that would resolve, and then you rinse and repeat.

I made some cool friends though, it was cool to meet people at capture points.

I’m aiming for much MUCH more depth here. Fundamentally different from ingress of similar games, aside from being location based. More industry and exploration, with a more typical loop around economy, growth, and advancement.

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- sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Cool! Good luck with it. It sounds like a fun project.
  
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