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GPS Mission wins at 2009 Mobile Peer Awards

Audience votes free location-based GPS game number one

GPS Mission wins at 2009 Mobile Peer Awards
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At the 2009 Mobile Peer Awards in Barcelona, a special ceremony was held that allowed the audience to vote on its favourite mobile game in the category of Early Stage Start-Ups. The winner was a surprising outsider from German developer, Orbster, with its free GPS location-based platform, GPS Mission.

GPS Mission essentially provides the framework for anyone to create their own virtual playground in the real world. The community behind the platform, which launched last May, has created GPS Missions in 61 countries, with scavenger hunts, guides, time travelling games, and crime stories tied to real life locations accessed through a GPS-enabled WinMo, Java or iPhone handset.

The concept of real location gaming keeps cropping up - even if commercial deployments are few and far between - and GPS Mission’s success at the Peer Wards (voted for by over 1,000 attendees) proves the concept is rapidly reaching boiling point.

Indeed, the whole idea of allowing the audience to determine which are the big games at these ceremonies also seems to be catching on, as the IGF Mobile recently announced an award for upcoming developments voted for by attendees.

Head on over to the App Store to pick up GPS Mission for free, then take a look at the thriving community that supports the platform and get involved.

Spanner Spencer
Spanner Spencer
Yes. Spanner's his real name, and he's already heard that joke you just thought of. Although Spanner's not very good, he's quite fast, and that seems to be enough to keep him in a regular supply of free games and away from the depressing world of real work.