Slashdot | Mogi Location-Based Mobile Gaming Hits Japan

Slashdot | Mogi Location-Based Mobile Gaming Hits Japan: "Thanks to TheFeature for its article discussing the popular Japanese mobile phone game Mogi, a title which 'uses both the position of players in the landscape, and the landscape itself to generate play.' The French developers of Mogi at Newt Games explain: 'We used the map to give [virtual] creatures some interesting behavior. Some creatures only hunt at night. Some hang around close to parks', thus: 'If a player wants to find that [in-game] creature, they'll have to travel near a park [playing Mogi on their mobile phone] in the evening hours.' A keen Tokyo-based player of the game also explains why he enjoys it: 'All the trips I make in the city are now randomized, as I will often divert a few hundred meters to go and collect an object around me.'"