Outdoor collecting games like Pokémon Go gets you outside, but they get boring quickly. Players don’t stay and spend. And Niantic had to cancel their Harry Potter and Marvel games. Harry Potter doesn’t spend all his time collecting stuff! Fans want more.

But that doesn’t mean that outdoor video games are dead. It means change the gameplay. That’s our strategic opening! Here’s our white paper with facts and details.

MMO / RPG games keep players for years on PC, console, and mobile, because players get hooked on the story and community. Why not put them outside?

Our founder, Johnny Monsarrat, was one of the original co-inventors of 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.

It’s a completely new category of video game, never seen before, that 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 the only startup to be featured by Forbes from Augmented World Expo, from 5,000 attendees.
• 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.

Outdoor Collecting Games make you walk to dozens or even hundreds of fixed locations, and each has only one creature. That’s inconvenient, boring, and doesn’t support storytelling.

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

Our outdoor roleplaying games are a more creative, less athletic alternative that also helps you make friends! And it also draws sporty people who like video games but don’t want to sit for hours.

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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