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I think AR or augmented reality games like this trading cards is the future of gaming, but this one is offline AR rather than online. One of the best game I ev

I think AR or augmented reality games like this trading cards is the future of gaming, but this one is offline AR rather than online. One of the best game I ever played is the text based souvenir game shopping game on Windows 3. I can't recall the name of the game now since it's more than 30 years ago, but it's about shopping souvenirs using London Underground Tube. You have a semi realistic time constraints like train schedules, your flight schedules and of course list of souvenirs items to shop. This is totally offline since there is no Internet available at the time but it's very engaging nonetheless. My proposal for the modern version of the game is to use real-time train schedules (with delays, ticket discounts, etc) that are available publicly on the Internet for many metropolitan cities in the world for examples Tokyo, London and Berlin [1],[2],[3]. Imagine you can have a real-world realistic in-app in-game items purchases feature that you personally can buy in the game and delivered to you or anyone you fancy of giving souvenirs except that you only virtually went there. [1] A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo's public transport system (2023 - 103 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829061 [2] Live map of London's Underground system: https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/ https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/ [3] Show HN: Ubähnchen – Animated subway map of Berlin (2020 - 102 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32647227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32647227 [4] Berlin train info: https://www.vbb.de/fahrinfo https://www.vbb.de/fahrinfo

kzs0 2y ago
Ngl that kind of pulls the fun out of it
fennecfoxy 2y ago
As someone who got back into mtg recently, nah. I think physical games are going to hang around because there's just something different between playing games with friends on discord versus assembling at one of our houses to play. Humans are social creatures.
- teleforce 2y ago
  I'm not proposing substitute physical games (do you meant real games like football?), this just augmenting computer games with real-time data. You can even become a virtual personal shopper to interact with real clients, and getting paid as well.

kzs0 2y ago

Ngl that kind of pulls the fun out of it

fennecfoxy 2y ago

As someone who got back into mtg recently, nah. I think physical games are going to hang around because there's just something different between playing games with friends on discord versus assembling at one of our houses to play. Humans are social creatures.

teleforce 2y ago
I'm not proposing substitute physical games (do you meant real games like football?), this just augmenting computer games with real-time data. You can even become a virtual personal shopper to interact with real clients, and getting paid as well.