Linkress

Global Nominee

Linkress received a Global Nomination.

Earth

Collect and develop geotagged information about local ties to space and aviation to incorporate within geo-based games/web applications/tools. Many apps and programs exist that allow users to input information about a location that corresponds to the real world. Public information and historical space events could be added to the location within the program. While exploring a new region, users can learning new facts about how the community played a role in new scientific discoveries or innovations in aviation or spaceflight.

Explanation

Linkress is a location based game linked to weather, astronomic phenomena and locations of artificial satellites.

Linkress mainly aims to three points:1)stimulate interest in them to users, 2)increase people in active and happy life, 3)inform users of disaster such as strong wind, heavy rain and so on.


A rule of the game is like location based game Ingress that is a popular in around the globe.

There are two teams that scramble for portals that are an energy spot.

if there is a near portal, users is able to attacks it or absorb energy from it.


Furthermore, in the game, there are special rules shown in the following.

(1)Real weather and moon affect attack power and energy.

Thus, users can get sunny energy in sunny day and can get rainy energy in In a rainy day.In addition, a phase of moon also affects them.

(2)Artificial satellites as special portal are addressed in a map.

Their locations in the game are based on location of them in the real.The special portals have special energy and users can deliver special and strong attacks with it.


To win the game, it is important to gain knowledge about weather, astronomic phenomena and artificial satellites.Thus, Linkress encourages users to gain knowledge about them.In addition, because it is also important to go outside in various environments such as rainy day, full moon and so on, Linkress gives new opportunity for an action and increases people in active and happy life. Furthermore, we think that Linkress is useful for disaster defense, because users can receive information about disaster through Linkress.


A new location based game linked to real, that is Linkress.

Resources Used

ISS TRAJECTORY DATA

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSa...

NORAD Two-Line Element Sets Current Data

http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/

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