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Mobile News South Africa

Vodacom gets its game on

Looking to take further advantage of cellular location-based services, Vodacom this morning, Monday, 19 April 2010, launched a massively multiplayer cellphone-based game, Legends of Echo, that blends elements of the real and virtual worlds.

Legends of Echo, which is built using Java, determines a player's physical location. From their location, players can then explore their surroundings, or move (virtually) to anywhere else in the country to interact with other players — in real time.

“The idea was to take the entire country and remap it into a virtual world, giving users a lot of weapons, and letting everyone go wild,” says Vodacom portfolio manager for social media, Vincent Maher.

Continue reading the full article on www.TechCentral.co.za.

About Duncan McLeod

Award-wining Duncan McLeod is the founder and editor of TechCentral (wwwTechCentral.co.za, @TechCentral]]), South Africa's latest technology news site offering breaking news, in-depth analysis and opinion that launched in September 2009. Before that, he was associate editor at the Financial Mail/FM. Contact Duncan on email duncan at techcentral dot co dot za and follow him on Twitter at @mcleodd.



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