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Wayfinder Brings Location Based Gaming to GPS Phones

By Shane | August 27, 2008

GPS is all the rage these days for mobile phones, so it’s only natural that we see exciting 3rd party applications evolve over time. One of those technologies is location based gaming and alternative reality platforms from the folks at Wayfinder. Imagine finding the position of yourself in the world that is reflected in the game - this has tremendous opportunity. A world wide game of Risk anyone?

Wayfinder, a leading supplier of innovative location and navigation services in mobile phones, has introduced a forum where game developers can create location oriented games using Wayfinder technology.

Jonas Sellergren, VP Innovations at Wayfinder.

“We see a huge potential for location oriented entertainment and gaming in mobile phones. By giving access to our 3rd party APIs to the game developer community, we believe that we can help these developers save a substantial amount of time when creating Location Based or Alternate Reality Games, especially on the mapping, search and positioning side”