RiderState: Conquer The World On A Bike
RiderState is a new mobile game for bike lovers. This social game for Android and iOS offers cyclists a geo-location bicycle adventure to conquer every street, every neighborhood and every city in the world.
RiderState's vision is to promote the usage of bikes whilst you play. RiderState belives that the simplest solution to complex problems such as mobility in cities, the quality of human life and climate change and its consequences can all be helped just by riding your bike.
RiderState is running a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo and if you'd like to help support our project and bike-friendly philosophy please visit indiegogo.com/projects/riderstate-the-social-game-for-bike-users
To learn more about RiderState visit riderstate.com
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I would definitely use the app but that being said I don't think marketing it as an answer to traffic congestion should be a priority. I live in San Diego and there are a ton of road cyclist as well as a ton of cars on the road. Most of these guys are not riding for transportation thus not really taking any cars off of the roads. I ride everywhere I can and I don't strava my rides when I go around town on my bike. It would be cool to see bike lockers, shops, or more bike friendly routes emphasized on a map within the program. This might encourage people to ride a little further if they new they had a secure place to use and store a bike. I could be just reinventing a feature that already exists in this app or others. If anyone knows of this fabled app please drop some knowledge.
First of all, clarify that I work for RiderState. We thank you very much your comments, it gives us a real approach on what the bike community thinks about the project. As you pointed out brotherbilly, we have a GIS system which allows us to set a large set of POIs into the map, of course, as you said, we agree that some info such as bike lockers or shops would be useful, however, we don't want to be invasive into the game, probably most of you, could consider undesirable or useless to have these sort of data into the game...
We prefer that these information will be included by you as a member (we will have tools for doing that as Waze or other routing apps already have), and the community will moderate if the info is usefull or not (somehow similar than Karma ;-) )
We can not ensure how many people will start using their bike instead of their car, however, we guess that our game is a good approach to engage these riders who sometimes prefer the car...Our goal is to promote the bicycle and we will do our best to expand the philosophy
Thank you very much for your feedback, it is our most valuable asset. Don't hesitate to contact us for more information or suggestions
Here we explain how the app works
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT8ngOJjzVI
RiderState's main features are:
Game board: Riderstate divides the world into 10,000 m² zones, each of which represents a potential territory to be conquered.
Route tracking: Smartphone GPS technology enables RiderState to gather important information regarding your location, speed, distance, altitude, etc. at each time, record it. RiderState analyzes this information and applies different algorithms which determine your final score. Users can compare this score to users in the rest of the world.
My Territories dashboard: Users can keep track of the different scores and conquered territories by accessing the “My territories dashboard” in in app menu.
Play against other world players or create a closed group with your friends and keep the competition private.
Thank you very much for your comment, I guess that the post does not contain all the information that it should, I apologize you :-S
Riderstate divides the world into 10,000 m² zones, each of which represents a potential territory to be conquered, it means, that you don't need to ride places you don't like or defined by the game.
The goal is to get the higgest score in your territories, at this way, you will become the Mayor of your places, and your friends or neighbors will try to grab you ;-)
However, it is only the beginning, there are much more strategies and game dinamics awaiting to our riders
Here we explain how the app works
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT8ngOJjzVI
Sorry for the missing information, I will try to explain a little bit
Here we explain how the app works
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT8ngOJjzVI
RiderState's main features are:
Game board: Riderstate divides the world into 10,000 m² zones, each of which represents a potential territory to be conquered.
Route tracking: Smartphone GPS technology enables RiderState to gather important information regarding your location, speed, distance, altitude, etc. at each time, record it. RiderState analyzes this information and applies different algorithms which determine your final score. Users can compare this score to users in the rest of the world.
My Territories dashboard: Users can keep track of the different scores and conquered territories by accessing the “My territories dashboard” in in app menu.
Play against other world players or create a closed group with your friends and keep the competition private.
This looks absolute pants. Forget your Iphone and go and ride your bike.
There isn't an enduro version because the app is made for all kind of bikes: road, MTB, DH, Enduro, Freeride... We want to do a game app for the bike lovers and anybody can play within and conquer every street, every countryside, every neighborhood, every town and every city.