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by seba_dos1 620 days ago
> possibly one of the first ever geo-location mobile games

The first geo-location mobile game I used to play (Xyber Mech) was from 2004; it was inspired by BotFighters from 2001, and Ingress was released in 2012 making a global craze, so I don't think you could be "one of the first ever" in 2014 ;) Pokemon Go, while certainly the most popular, was really late to the party.

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As you get older it all starts to blend :) Would have actually been more like 2010 [0] as I remember the iPhone 4 was the next target [1] and my job was to get all the DSP running on it. But you're absolutely right, the idea of GPS games is way, way older. Some of the team then were into "geocashing" sort of games and that's what inspired the musical zombies thing. IIRC they didn't all use "smartphones" either because not all models had GPS then.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RjDj [1] https://www.iphonelife.com/content/evolution-iphone-every-mo...