The public game room has lots of general random topics, or you can create a private group and make your own challenges with any topics you like.
This is a personal/passion project of mine (and has gotten fairly popular these days). I'm actively working on improving the game, by adding category specific games, different game modes, etc.
I built an app based on that exact concept: http://thewikigame.com which has been running for many years, and is now quite popular.
The database of the site now contains a large record of millions of game plays of players trying to go from one Wikipedia link to another. See here for some interesting academic research that has been done on the site's dataset: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jSGFRZYrJnlDUBhGbQrO9e-n...
I'm currently developing an app based on Gimbal: https://gimbal.com (made by Qualcomm).
My experience so far has been pretty good using their SDK (which works on iOS and Android) and their admin web interface, and the Gimbal devices themselves are not that expensive.
I'd be interested to hear the experiences of others using Gimbal..
* not really iBeacon compatible. They say you can flash their beacons to make them compatible, but i haven't found out how since their support is not responding.
Gimbal beacons have the suckiest battery life.
The ones that I had expired after only two months of usage.
Of course you can replace the battery (big plus) but the maintenance would be costly if deployed at a customer site.
For series 10, absolutely. Their series 20 seems to have better battery life (4 AA), but they need to "approve" you in order to purchase them... still yet to see one in the wild.
This project is pretty great for using Flask on App Engine: https://github.com/gae-init/gae-init - I've been using it for a while now, and it's been smooth sailing. Also, it's actively maintained and continually improving.
I started 'The Wiki Game' by building this web game: http://thewikigame.com - but all revenue comes from the iOS apps, not the site.
Been meaning to potentially monetize the site some day. It gets ~30,000 players per month, with time-on-site ~9mins.
Are the tags user created? One thing I've learned through experience is user created tags are almost universally useless (this is especially true when the service gets popular, and people start adding completely false tags to content, in hopes of garnering more attention).
They're not entirely user created. You need a certain score to add new tags, and by that point you have gotten the feel of Pineapple where I'd trust that user to add new tags. I also moderate all new ones that are added, and update tags for all new resources added. I also delete redundant tags, etc.
And mostly useless. Most active people would prefer walking or cycling to maintain their fitness. Most inactive people don't have the coordination and would rather sit down on a mobility scooter. It was a cool idea with a limited market.
Glass will succeed if people find it useful enough and the dorkiness will become cool. It is really an extension of the smartphone user interface and smartphones are undeniably useful. People currently wear glasses and those ridiculous bluetooth earpieces so it isn't a big stretch.
I can't imagine Google Glass will be exactly cheap either.
Also, just like Segway has been facing regulatory issues [1], Glass deployment might be hampered by safety and privacy issues, at least initially and in some markets.
They're also somewhat dangerous, having killed the guy who bought the Segway company, among others. That is not mitigated by the fact that the Segway was marketed as something like better walking, discouraging helmet use (even while claiming in safety manuals that helmets are required).
AFAIK he drove off a cliff. He would just have quickly died if he had walked off the cliff, or ridden off with a bicycle.
While anything on wheels is more dangerous than walking, it's disingenuous to claim that this particular death is proof of the danger of travelling by Segway.
I have a site: http://TheWikiGame.com that makes a game out of a related idea (finding the connection between Wikipedia articles).
Recently, I've been giving access to the game data to people (like university researchers, etc) to test different theories on path connections made by real people, etc.
The game has now been running for over 3 years, has about 1.19 million players, playing over 1.37 million games, with about 1.22 million won games (successful start/end article connection).
Got a really cool application for all the game data? I'd love to hear: alex@thewikigame.com
I have a kind of Wiki game that I play aloud with friends. Person A names a topic. Person B must guess whether Wikipedia owns the top Google (incognito/not signed-in) result for that term. Person B gets a point for guessing right, or Person A gets a point if Person B guesses wrong. The fun is in coming up with "stumpers.'
The public game room has lots of general random topics, or you can create a private group and make your own challenges with any topics you like.
This is a personal/passion project of mine (and has gotten fairly popular these days). I'm actively working on improving the game, by adding category specific games, different game modes, etc.