Codename: Turbulence

Codename: Turbulence

The Turbulence project won the 2008 Devsta Competition.

Since the dawn of time man has pitted himself against his fellow man in what can only be described as a gruelling competition of physical prowess.

In this spirit team insert team name here have brought the timeless game of Tag (also known as Chasey and "You're It") to the Windows Mobile Platform.

The game requires a Windows Mobile Device with GPS which in turn talks to the game server (a WCF service) to communicate with the other players.

If you dont have GPS on your phone you can still participate by running around with the arrow keys on your phone. You'll be a bit faster than everyone else and able to run through buildings like a superhero.

When you start the game you will see a Virtual Earth map of your current location and other players near by. You can walk around and see the players update in near real time. If you're tagged or "it" then when you get within 10 meters of another player the option to Tag them becomes available.

To put a bit of a twist on it, when you tag a player you will then be presented with a target selection screen. From this screen you have to select the target out of a line up of several players, so you may need to survail (stalk) the target for a little while before tagging them.

Technologies used in this project;

Compact Framework
WCF
Virtual Earth
OneNote
Team Foundation Server (Codeplex)
Halo 3 (it helps me code, honest!)

We were actually hoping to build a little more of the app including a website to provide high scores / monitor the game which was to be done in Silverlight and persist the data from the WCF service in SQL 2008 to make use of the new spatial data capabilities, but unfortunately we ran out of time!

This project has been a collaboration between Jarred Sargent and Michael Minutillo.