Research

So begins the research process.

We started by paying a visit to C.R.C.A. in the Calit2 building to see if we could get any input on the best way to go about creating this live gaming experience. After speaking with William Huber, we got a few things figured out.

-We could potentially try to make both the cities and missiles powered by cell phone users in the real space.
**We would need to acquire 36 GPS phones to do this, which isn't very reasonable given our student budget.
-We could have the missiles powered by a user on a computer and have just the cities be people with cell phones. This way, we'll only need 6 GPS cell phones.
- We will need a phone client, a game interface, and a server to connect the information.
-We will need to figure out how we want to program the phone --> computer (j2me?)


Things to do this week:

-Talk to Candy about phones
-Start working with basic processing sketches to work on the game interface.