The Virtual Crunked Badge - foursquare’s API could open up EA’s The SIMS to virtual world interaction with the real world.
A very interesting post over on @raster’s blog on how the foursquare API offered up some live data of who is all at a location, at that time, including their pic, and Facebook and/or Twitter profiles.
This got me thinking - real people in real places in real-time all streamed to an app - you take those locations, and endpoints, and drop them into a “The SIMS”-like preexisting game engine (or other MMO) and have couch surfers that could mingle with bar go-ers at a location in real life, heck conversations could be handled between them via @mention to their Twitter… Let’s not touch FaceBook poking. Granted the game creator would have to leverage foursquare to link to real locations on real places on a map, but all the pieces are there.
Who’s down for making a real live SIM game for foursquare?
