Kikumasamune Brewing rolls GPS scavenger hunt game, co-op w/popular Mapion Colony service, incld. souvenir Sake card [J] http://bit.ly/fhDhg

Machine Translation:

A simulation game that uses a portable location information. The user can collect the dealings of the item between colonies and the souvenir item of various places besides my colony is raised by using in-game money acquired in proportion to moved distance. Coming to a store and the sales promotion service that uses souvenir card that synchronized with the item in the game are developed. Koropura is a pioneer of a portable game of the positional synchronization type to use GPS of the cellular phone and the location information by the base station.

Because they are 350,000 person or more whole countries and “Movement” is a great factor in the game in the number of users, that 80 percent is member of society 20-in his/her forties. Coming to a store and the sales promotion service that uses souvenir card “[Koroka]” that synchronizes with the item in the game having developed since June are introduced in 12 nationwide stores. Full press release Here. Also note past related article [J] via IT Media.

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