Msg in a Bottle

By:Matt Mann

Mike NicholsBrandon Shewmake

Concept Motivation

Social Interaction Gaming Exercise

Description: Social Media and Treasure Hunting via Geocaching

Cache Properties Public vs Private

Public: everyone can view Private: only friends can view

Visible vs Hidden Hidden: uses camera to find Cach

Bottle vs Treasure Chest Bottle: a msg and all other media Chest: allows only text

Timer? Linked?

Cache Media

Interactive Media Ie: watch this video, read this question, extc

and answer Text Pictures Videos Audio May add restrictions on chest media

Chest Properties

Requires a min amount of gold contributed Curse vs Blessing

Affects based on amount of gold in chest Curse: no Gold and you are hexed Blessing: gold boost

Social Aspect

Game Aspect

Why Play The Game

Bragging Rights Higher rank == better than your friends Get rank by placing gold in chest

Get gold via daily booty and opening chest As your rank increase, will require more gold put

in a chest to continue increasing rank Lots of Exercise Dominating your friends and strangers

Game Features(subject to change)

Daily Stipend Curse: Lowers gold multiplier Blessing: Increases gold multiplier Witch Doctors: Located at McDonalds or other

common places Blessings: bought from the Witch Doctor Curses: cured by Witch Docotors

Random Curses and Blessings Rankings: (Will Change)

Grand Poobah, Made Man, Newb

Features

Friends List BOW (Bottle of the Week by popular vote) COW (Chest of the Week by point value) Groups List

Group Specific Notifications

Possible Features

Achievements Integrating Other Social Media Other ways of adding incentive to the game

Competitor: Geocaching.com App

- Uses GPS features- Physical Caches- Map of Nearby POI- Post Field Notes

ChallengesThings we've never done

Security features Picture recognition Voice recognition

Superimposing bottle/chest on camera Superimposing directional arrow on camera Pushing/Pulling from server

Aquiring server space Balancing economy Proper incentive to play