Pokémon Go brought video games outside. But its “collecting stuff” gameplay is just a niche and has weak economics compared to huge PC game categories, like action and roleplaying.

Pokémon Go’s technology can’t support the most popular and profitable game genres, because its technology is based on map points. How can you put a racing car game or a fantasy world on a pinpoint? Full analysis.

That means that, although outdoor collecting games made $10 billion, most of the potential of outdoor games is still untapped! That’s our opportunity. Our technology, based on 6 patents, works on contiguous map areas, not pinpoints. We do support action, roleplaying, strategy, and other giant game types outdoors.

It’s not our first time inventing a new category of video game. Our founder, Johnny Monsarrat, co-invented MMO gaming, as Founder, CEO, and CTO of Turbine, one of the “big three” first MMO game companies. Turbine made “Game of the Year” Asheron’s Call and “Game of the Year” Lord of the Rings Online, and is now a division of Warner Bros.

Our demo game, Landing Party, is a completely new category of video game, never seen before. It is:

• Social. MMO-style gameplay brings players together in quest parties and teams, building friendships and community.
• Creative. We go beyond “collecting stuff” gameplay to deep storytelling and roleplaying adventures. Immersive AR interactivity is central to gameplay. Future players will create their own adventures.
• Convenient. We have no fixed locations. You play anywhere you want to, in a local park, your own backyard, or any open space, even if it’s small or indoors.

While we’re working on a future full game, try our demo game with 12 missions!

Landing Party is available now on Apple App Store and Google Play. Or see our videos!

See our videos with press and player reactions with some calling it the “best innovation of the show” at GDC!

And in print:

• Forbes: “a remarkable outdoor roleplaying game“. We were one of only 15 companies be featured by Forbes from Augmented World Expo, alongside Apple, Google, Qualcomm, and Meta.
• Forbes: “The best parts of AWE… a compelling demo of what it’s like to walk around a real park that has been converted into an alien planet.”
• Tom’s Guide: I just saw the future of mobile gaming.
• VentureBeat: 1,800-word feature article by Dean Takahashi

Games like Pokémon Go use map points, which don’t support the most popular game genres. How can you shoot enemies through a military base (action) or explore a fantasy world (roleplaying) on a pinpoint?

Playing sports is a great way to make new friends. But many people feel shut out of sports. They find sports boring and exhausting.

Our outdoor roleplaying games give them a more creative, less athletic outdoor alternative. Like sports it gets you moving and helps you make friends. And it also draws sporty people who like video games but don’t want to sit at a desk.

Most video games are a break from life, a stress break. Immersive games “feel real”, but your body knows the truth: you’re sitting statically in your mom’s basement, with all the lights off. VR is “fully immersive” but even worse: you put your head in a prison where you can’t even see your mom when she comes down with cookies.

Our games don’t separate you from life. They connect you to life.

You explore your neighborhood, engaging with trees, grass, squirrels, and feeling part of your community, seeing passersby and an AR game landscape on your phone. That’s a kind of “immersion” you could never get with other games. It doesn’t just “feel real”. It is real.

You could pet a stranger’s dog, buy your mom a gift, take photos of the sunset, or make a friend who could change your life. Your real life.

In the global crisis of loneliness, it’s hard for people to get off the couch. Up to 80% of young people say they feel lonely.

Other games are a stress break, but you pause your life. You aren’t living your life.

We can help. Our game gets you outside and walking! That’s great for physical and mental health. Walking changes your body chemistry; it literally makes you happy to walk around.

Our games can even introduce people in a public park and be an ice breaker that bonds them together. Make a new friend, not online but in the real world!

For more on our vision, see our press kit or our videos.

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