Wi-Fi Army a Google Android Game

If you’re dying to see how Google’s open mobile platform Android will shape the mobile gaming industry, here’s an appetizer called Wi-Fi Army developed by W2Pi Entertainment.

Aiming to get a funding from the recently announced Android Challenge, it is a first shooter game which relies on 3 technologies - GPS, Google Maps, and camera phone. Instead of video graphics, you can engage real people in a gun, rather phone fight. The camera phone functions as your scope to hunt other players. The GPS is used to locate other players within 300 feet radius. Once another player is detected within the range, you will be notified about this new found enemy. Google Maps provides support to find other players.

For now, only 500 people are allowed to play per city. Best of all, it is FREE. Taking virtual reality to the next level by adding mobility and location-based services to it signals the dramatic change on how we play games. As expected, there are some glitches in this game but hopefully these will all be corrected as the game continually develops. Still, I’m pretty the privacy-concern groups will soon lash this innovative and very creative project.