GPS Mission of the month award


Create a game using the mission designer GPS Mission, the location-based gaming platform where players create missions for others - is awarding the best mission of the month. Create a mission on www.gpsmission.com and win an exciting prize, e.g. a Nokia N82 mobile phone. In the first three months after starting the beta phase of GPS Mission our users have published missions in 39 countries. To date the community has created a wide spectrum of different missions such as scavenger hunts, city-guides and crime stories. Now it's time to award the best mission of each month in a worldwide competition.

Design a fascinating location-based experience All you need to participate is a good idea and an interesting location that you know well. You don't need any programming skills to create a great location-based game at www.gpsmission.com. A really good GPS Mission tells a story. It has pictures and asks questions that can best be answered at the given location. A mission shouldn't last longer than 45 - 60 minutes and should bring people to interesting places. Try to surprise your players, show them unusual perspectives, and uncover hidden stories. Remember not too make your mission too long, people will have to walk the distance. For more input on mission design read this blog entry >>.

The Jury
Hendrik Lesser CEO of ML Enterprises, Managing Director of Chimera Entertainment Hendrik Lesser is the co-founder and Managing Director of the production company ML Enterprises in Munich. He is a jury-member of the German Game Developer Award and also part of various educational institutions (GA, Qantm, MDH). Furthermore Hendrik is Managing Director and producer of Chimera Entertainment and part of the management of Videospielkultur e.V. an incorporated society for video game culture. www.r-control.de	Kevin Slavin Managing Director, Area/Code Entertainment, New York City Kevin Slavin is the co-founder and Managing Director of Area/Code Entertainment in New York City. Since 2005, Area/Code has developed location-based, pervasive and cross-media entertainment for Nokia, Nike, Puma, CBS, MTV, A&E, The Discovery Channel and others. www.playareacode.com	Gunnar Lott Editor-in-chief, Director Online & New Business IDG Entertainment media GmbH Gunnar Lott plays video games. And is writing about it. And that's his day job! And has been for quite some time. He works as Director Online at the possibly best game magazine in the market. Apart from that Gunnar does jury jobs like this one and gives talks, on game-related topics of course. www.idgmedia.de

Win an N82! Every month we will give away a neat Nokia N82 GPS-phone for the best mission (as decided by the jury). The winner will also get a nice and exclusive digital Trophy for his or her trophy board on gpsmission.com - but fame & glory await for all mission designers! No entry forms needed - just be creative Create interesting and innovative missions on www.gpsmission.com. All missions in English and German language qualify and participate in the competition without anything else to do. Please understand that missions in other languages will not participate, because the judges simply won't understand them. But of course all missions in all languages are always welcome on gpsmission.com. If you have any questions about the competition - post them to the mission design forum.