In the next 48 hours we will be publishing an all new look for CipherCities.

Above is an example of the new postcard artwork… you will soon recognise it in the new look interfaces… !!!

We are so excitied about our big launch event next week…

We have some wonderful friends helping us out from different corners of the CipherCities Globe… Come and meet them…

Caryl Shaw, Producer and Designer for SPORE (San Francisco),

Chad Chetterton, World Designer at Funcom (Oslo), and

Helen Stuckey, curator Games Lab ACMI (Melbourne)

will be joining the CipherCities Crew (Deb Polson, Yang Wong, Sherwin Huang, Colleen Morgan, Shu-Min Heng and Dave Wallace) for the Gamers Discussion Panel at the Cipher Cities Launch on Friday Dec 5

Check the CipherCities Blog for details… EVERYONE IS WELCOME

It will be a big party at the Game On exhibition with bands, games and a cash bar.

So we’ve had lots of people (especially Geocachers) asking us: Can we get GPS on CipherCities?
Well, technically you can.

We designed CipherCities to be enjoyed by everyone, so the builder is really flexible. You can pretty much stick anything you want into it (limited by characters of course).

That said, look at our example below:

Say you’re a big fan of Geocaching. Geocaching is basically seeking out caches, but with CipherCities, you can add a whole story around your caches. Just put give your players a series of waypoints that they can use to navigate from Cache to Cache.

It’s really quite easy. We’ll be putting up more tips, so keep reading!