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Rocco Augusto
06-13-2006, 08:39 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://blogs.msdn.com/pix/archive/2006/05/24/Pixie_Hunt.aspx' target='_blank'>http://blogs.msdn.com/pix/archive/2006/05/24/Pixie_Hunt.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><i>"A couple of years ago, some friends of mine invited me along on their scavenger hunt. We buzzed around town in teams collecting photos of ourselves performing various fun and bizarre acts (e.g., "take a photo of your team making a human pyramid with a stranger", "take a photo of your team with the Fremont Troll") and generally making a ruckus. We had a ball and occasionally crossed paths with the other teams, but I kept thinking that it would be fun to be able to see what pictures the other teams were taking and banter back and forth during the game. And so Pixie Hunt was born. Pixie Hunt is a mash up prototype a few of us here at Microsoft put together that creates a mobile, connected scavenger hunt game."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/augusto-2006.06.13-pixiehunt.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/><br /><br />I have no idea how we let this little piece of heaven slip through our fingers without reporting it. Looks like Microsoft has been busy lately. ;) Pixie Hunt utilizes Virtual Earth, Flikr, Smartphones and smack talking to bring us the ultimate scavenger hunt game to ever hit your Windows Mobile device. This is one piece of software I am extraordinarily excited to try out on my phone. Maybe if we're lucky I can talk the rest of the gang into a nation wide scavenger hunt :lol:

Jerry Raia
06-14-2006, 12:21 AM
Notice the use of the humphone for the pictures. It's tough being right all the time. :mrgreen:

encece
06-14-2006, 05:47 AM
It's funny that the team name represent the colors of the windows flag.
Also, I emailed them asking where they got that BLACK theme they are using. Notice the top and bottom bars are almost black and not grey.

Mike Temporale
06-14-2006, 02:10 PM
It's funny that the team name represent the colors of the windows flag.

Wow! You're really paying attention to details. ;)

Sounds like it could be fun. :D