Create Entrepreneur Wins Competition

Create entrepreneur Mark Lochrie (CMDESIGNX) is part of a team that has won a major competition.

The team’s location-based game ‘Big Game Huntr’ saw off competition from more than 150 entries from all over the world to take the Adobe FlashLite Developer Challenge Innovation Prize 2009.

Big Game Huntr taps into rising trends in mobile gaming including social networking and user-generated content. It enables people to design their own location based game to their local environment and around an activity of their own choosing.

Players are awarded points for taking photographs of objects or activities in their chosen location zone which is illustrated as an interactive map on their phone screen. For example a required activity may be to perform a conga and the location could be around Lancaster Castle.

Players are awarded points related to both the difficulty of the task and location. The photographs are tagged with the coordinates of their current position obtained from the phones in-built GPS and uploaded to an overall game server which produces an end of game map which can be added to their Facebook profile.

Mark designed a video to show off the games potential.