1. “Outdoor Edutainment”
for
Childhelpline
Workshop Athens
November 2009

2. Agenda
• Introducing GPS Mission
• Location-based services / entertainment
• Examples of edutainment
• location based advertising
•Activities:
• Go on a GPS Mission in Athen
• Create the first Childhelpline Mission in your town
• Discussion

3. Orbster – company overview
• Developer of location based games for
GPS-enabled phones
• Based in Munich and Karlsruhe,
Germany
• 7HC
• Started GPS Mission in may 2008
• Vision:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUO
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4. „Location-based“ is now – the
hardware is available (and popular)
Growth of GPS mobiles worldwide

5. GPS Mission – the leading
platform for location-based games
• Worldwide location based gaming community
with 75.000 registered users
• First worldwide playable location-based
Game for the iPhone. Started12/08
• GPS Missions can be played in over 70
countries to date
• Winner of the Mobile Peer Awards 2009
(Audience Award), Winner Galileo Masters
2008 (Special Prize Games), Finalist Navteq
Global LBS Challenge 2008.
• Pocketgamer: “One of the Top 20 Free
Games for the iPhone”.

6. GPS Mission – create and play
location-based games
Create! Play!

7. GPS Mission
„Photo-Safari Berlin“
Wherever you are...
...switch on your GPS mobile
phone
– and start your mission.

8. GPS Mission
„Photo-Safari Berlin“
Your GPS mobile guides you
from one challenge to the next.

9. GPS Missions are created in over 70
countries so far

10. Creating GPS games is easy!

11. GPS Mission - Examples

12. It„s a game platform: Easy to integrate
– look & feel can be adapted

13. Missions created by our players
Pervasive gaming in St. Louis
http://www.thewaytheirworldended.com/

14. Motivations to play GPS Mission
Playful exploring! Way marking! Show where
you„ve been!

15. GPS Mission on Facebook – Show your friends
where you are and what you play – live on a map

16. Active players between 14 and 40.
York, UK
Tampa, FL Limoges,
France
Hatfield, UK
London, UK
Daytona Beach, FL
Munich, Germany
NYC
Garmisch, Germany
Riga, Latvia London, UK

17. GPS Mission player: 14 - 40 years,
tendious male, love mobile phones

18. Erste Münchener MEGAMISSION,
01.03.2009, Marienplatz
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/6077379/GPS_Megamission_Muenchen

19. Next step for GPS Mission: Multiplayer gaming in the
real world

20. Ghost Patrol: First premium game
on GPS Mission

21. The first MMOG which will be extended
to the real world

22. Players will be always connected with
the Dark Orbit online game

23. Settlers of Catan - Worldwide GPS
Game in 2010

24. Settlers of Catan - The real world
will be the playground
The real world, where the players live …and a Settlers of Catan ressources
and play, … map…
„Sie sind in Hamburg“
„Verfügbarer Rohstoff:
Erz.“
„75m nördlich steht Deine
Erzmine Nr. 4“
… will be merged by the Orbster Game A new location-based game adventure
Server. for gps-enabled phones arises.

25. Edutainment games on GPS Mission

26. GPS Mission – playable city histories

27. 60 years BRD – 60 missions to explore
Germany with your mobile phone

28. GPS Mission – 60 years BRD

29. 1964 plays in Cologne
A time travel back to the year 1964. At the train station in
Cologne Deutz, the one millionth foreign worker is expected to
arrive. The guy from Portugal has no glu…

30. 1964 plays in Cologne

31. US state capitals
(usa.gpsmission.com)

32. Galileo Handy Schatzsuche on
ProSieben

33. Thank you for your interest!
Georg Broxtermann
Orbster GmbH
+49-151-14977665
georg.broxtermann@orbster.com
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