Video Games - X-box, Ect.

[+dmnrec]

I've been playing some adventure type X Box games lately and it occurred to me that it would be cool if someone would make a geocaching video game..then you could geocache even more!

[+Mr. Snazz]

It could work as an educational game...

 

For example, it could be geocaching plus "collecting" various species of flowers, trees, animals. As you "hike in" to the geocache, you would be on the lookout for new bird calls, animal sightings, etc. And there would be some kind of logbook screen where you could review the things that you've found and the ones that you havn't.

 

The cache at the end of the hike would give you a destination (much like it does in real life) so that you wouldn't just be wandering around aimlessly in some dorky hiking game.

 

More advanced caches could use clues/codes based on animals/plants/etc that you've learned about during the other areas.

 

Modern 3d engines could make this look pretty dang cool!

Edited February 24, 2005 by Mr. Snazz

[+Renegade Knight]

There is a version of a 3D game/simulation cache on the net. Don't know the link, someone with better Markwell skills than me would have to look it up. But it's out there.

[Golden_Spike]

geocaching - the sport where you are the search engine. the world is the game board. finding out about cool new places. trading some worthless stuff for some other worthless stuff and loving it. exploring. being outside.

 

dont get me wrong, i like playing videogames sometimes, but doesnt a geocaching videogame kind of defy the whole purpose of geocaching?

[+blazerfan]

as I remember "Deer Hunter 2" had a GPS and with the right cheat code it would show the deer on the GPS. It was a lot like geocaching, but the caches could move.

[+tls11823]

I'm with Golden Spike. Caching is a great way to get my son away from video games. A geocaching video game would put him back in front of the TV. No thanks.

[+The Fraher Family]

I agree. Let's step away from the video games.

[+DaveA]

I agree. Let's step away from the video games.

I dunno, we have fishing and hunting video games, every popular sport has a videogame or a series of games. Why not a geocaching game?

 

Only thing I can see against it is that it would probably be really boring. Throw in a few monsters|nazis|aliens|demons and a shotgun though and that would be pretty cool.

[+WRITE SHOP ROBERT]

How about park police, and muggles

[+sTeamTraen]

There is a version of a 3D game/simulation cache on the net. Don't know the link, someone with better Markwell skills than me would have to look it up. But it's out there.

The cache is here (it also exists physically, if you care to visit Sweden) and the simulator is here.

 

Amazingly, someone logged a DNF on it a few days ago !

[+TrailDiva]

The cache is here (it also exists physically, if you care to visit Sweden) and the simulator is here.

 

Amazingly, someone logged a DNF on it a few days ago !

That DNF and picture was quite funny.

[Shoobie & the Sand Crabs]

How about park police, and muggles

[+jelinidas]

My youngest girl plays a Nancy Drew game on her laptop that has a GPS and uses it to go geocaching. It even uses the term Geocaching!

[+Will+Bill]

When it says "Welcome to Sweeden" does that mean you can log?

[+AmishHacker]

I have also had that thought but then remembered I started Geocaching to get out of the house and away from video games. Now time to stop posting ot the fourms and play Halo 2 on Live

 

[+Camo-crazed]

There is a version of a 3D game/simulation cache on the net.  Don't know the link, someone with better Markwell skills than me would have to look it up.  But it's out there.

The cache is here (it also exists physically, if you care to visit Sweden) and the simulator is here.

 

Amazingly, someone logged a DNF on it a few days ago !

And the best part about the sim is you can go threogh swamps and streams without having to stop and put on new pants