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Jetset: A Game for Airports
by Ian Bogost January 22, 2009
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Over at Persuasive Games, we've launched our first iPhone game, Jetset: A Game for Airports. Here's the short blurb:

A game for the frazzled globetrotter in all of us. Keep up with the changing rules of airport security on your iPhone or iPod touch. Play in airports to earn unique souvenirs to keep, give to friends, or redeem for prizes.

The iPhone game connects to the Jetset Facebook App, where gifts and redemptions are handled. As Kotaku put it, now you can take an airport security game through airport security.

  • Buy the game on the iTunes App Store (pretty please?)
  • More about the game

  • Comments (2)

    Love the redux, but the interface is a bit cumbersome. Mock-up of what I'd do is here:
    http://www.ludic-interface.com/2009/01/24/jetset-a-game-for-airports/

    Hey Dakota -- Interesting comments. We're looking into a revision along some of these lines, although I probably won't move the proceed button (mostly so we can use most of the space for a bigger dude). Thanks for sending them along.