New Advertising Rates and a New Game
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As mentioned earlier I am starting a game called "Vagabond Spirits." This is a map based game in which vagabond spirits roam the world. The game includes a game token and exchange. I will use the ads on the game.
Have you ever wanted hike the Pacific Crest Trail to walk from NYC to SF? Well your vagabond spirit can.
Vagabond Spirits uses a fitness tracker. The idea is that your vagabond spirit has grown weary of city life. It leaps from your body and starts hiking the trails of the world. For every step you take in real life, it takes a step in the vagabond world.
Vagabonds will follow the great trails such as the Continental Divide Trail, The Grand Enchantment Trail, etc.
The game includes an exchange. The advertising dollars will go into the exchange to make the exchange interesting.
I would really like to find some brave souls willing to alpha test the game. The game starts when your vagabond spirit leaps from your body. So I need to know your starting point. Just give me a zip code in the comment, the name of a local park and the direction your vagabond spirit wants to travel. I really only have the resources to build one or two trails at a time. This is a very limited offer.
I want to start a SteemConnect account to go with the game. For that I need 3 STEEM. I am powering down until I get 3 STEEM. I have 0.71 STEEM. It will probably take two weeks ... unless someone orders an and gives me STEEM.
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That sounds really cute and fun.
You're not just stumbling to the shops for a pack of cigarettes, you're hiking the Appalachian trail.
Thank you for the kind comment. I think using a fitness tracker to simulate a hobo journey around the planet would be fun. People would learn geography and local lore. The program has hooks into the exciting world of GIS and mapmaking. Creating an exchange allows people to discuss different approaches to crypto.
So, I started the program a few years ago, but found no interest. I still think it would be fun if I found a few people interested in experimenting with a hobo journey. I can only work one route at a time; so I am really hope I find someone in the US who wants to play the game.
I need someone to say where they are. The best way is to give me a zip code and the name of a park in the zip code. They would then need to tell me the trail they want to follow. I will then make a map from their home to the trail and along the trail.
A lot of people are cagey with their personal details.
Probably for good reason. Local park wouldn't be too close . I'm in Australia and rarely walk or I'd help out.
I probably should just ask for the name of a town and local park. The trails never start at a given person's house. The trails start at a place of interest in a region.
The vagabonds move from camp to camp. The recommendation is for people to take 10,000 steps a day. The camps are usually 5,000 to 8,000 steps apart. There are usually several camps in any given town.
Connecting the map to Australia will be difficult. In theory the Continental divide trail runs from Canada, through the US, Mexico and South America. I figured a vagabond spirit could swim to Antartica then cross the South Pole giving them access to Australia and Africa.
Your profile mentions Adelaide. It looks like a walk along the coast to Melbourne would be interesting. Heading due North goes past some interesting lakes. I guess one could walk to Ayer's Rock.
Making a trail that circumnavigates Australia wouldn't be that terribly difficult. Hooking that trail to the rest of the world is the challenge.
I wonder how long it would take to walk all the way around Australia. Surely there are people who've walked from Brisbane to Perth. It appears that it took Jimmy Harrington 378 days to walk around Australia.
That's some great research, mate.
One of our locals is walking around Kangaroo Island for charity at the moment.
He's here as @exploreadelaide and @timmm.