Public Transit Game
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cyranoImagine what it would be like if taking BART was a game.
Today I discovered ChromaRoma. You register your Oyster pass (A co-ordinated multi-resource public transportation card that lets you take the Tube, the bus, and a bike-for-hire service I didn't know existed), and choose a team.
Then, for every nexus you visit, your team gets a tick at that nexus. Whichever team has the most ticks 'owns' the station, and receives points for it. There are also Daily Missions (today's is 'Visit Tulse Hill'), Campaigns (thematically linked Daily Missions), and 'be the fastest traveller between X and Y' goals, all of which net your team extra points.
It reminds me a lot of the World of Warcraft goodie system, and I'm sad that I can't play. (If it goes well, they want to expand to other cities, but there may be legal barriers to bringing it to the states. Even if I did live in an area with public transportation.) So maybe I'll just write a Cory Doctorow-style urban youth story where ChromaRoma is an element.
Today I discovered ChromaRoma. You register your Oyster pass (A co-ordinated multi-resource public transportation card that lets you take the Tube, the bus, and a bike-for-hire service I didn't know existed), and choose a team.
Then, for every nexus you visit, your team gets a tick at that nexus. Whichever team has the most ticks 'owns' the station, and receives points for it. There are also Daily Missions (today's is 'Visit Tulse Hill'), Campaigns (thematically linked Daily Missions), and 'be the fastest traveller between X and Y' goals, all of which net your team extra points.
It reminds me a lot of the World of Warcraft goodie system, and I'm sad that I can't play. (If it goes well, they want to expand to other cities, but there may be legal barriers to bringing it to the states. Even if I did live in an area with public transportation.) So maybe I'll just write a Cory Doctorow-style urban youth story where ChromaRoma is an element.
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Date: 2011-04-27 03:26 am (UTC)Wanna bet the on day this "innocent" bit of frivolity is bought by Facebook or Google? (If it isn't already.)
(Yeah, I'm paranoid like that.)