Tourality. You are the game!

Tourality is a new type of game for your mobile phone that combines sporty outdoor activity with virtual gaming experience. In contrast to normal sport simulations, you will face the real challenge of reaching geographically defined spots in reality as fast as possible and before your opponents. Your movement directly influences the gaming progress - because you are the game!

The Challenge
Equipped with a mobile phone and a Bluetooth GPS receiver your challenge is to reach spots before your opponents. A spot is a certain point on a virtual map that you have to reach in reality. While you are on your way by foot, on eight rolls, two wheels, or even motorized, your real position is transmitted from the Bluetooth GPS receiver to your mobile phone and is shown on the display. Tourality shows you the position of all participating players as well as the spots to reach on your mobile phone: you will know the spots still to reach and their location, as well as how you assert yourself compared to the other players.

The 4 Game Modes
Tourality has four different game modes:

Game mode and Challenges
Spot RACE: Finish all laps faster than your competitors by reaching the spots in the given order!
Spot CHASE: Reach more 'active' spots than the others before the spots become 'inactive'!
Spot RUSH: Reach all spots in the game faster than your competitors!
Spot ACT!: Act fast when the next spot becomes 'active' randomly!


Singleplayer, Player vs. Player or Team vs. Team - The choice is yours!
You know best which way is the fastest and best between the spots? Then don't prove
it only to yourself (Singleplayer) but also to your opponents in a multiplayer game (Player vs. Player). Or show team spirit and compete against up to four other teams (Team vs. Team). Create a multiplayer game yourself or join a game that is currently ongoing in your surroundings! It is up to you whether you play with your friends or get to know new people in your area as part of a multiplayer game ;-)


The requirements:

Hardware
Tourality seems like a computer game but it's outdoor and mobile! That's why there are some requirements concerning the hardware: You need a mobile phone that supports Java (MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1) as well as Bluetooth. To get the GPS data on your mobile phone you will further need a Bluetooth GPS receiver. During playing Tourality, you will need an internet connection (GPRS/UTMS connection) of your mobile network operator. The amount of data transferred for Tourality is generally low (see this FAQ entry). Mobile phones which are compatible are listed here. We have also compiled a selection of compatible Bluetooth GPS receivers here.

Software
How you get Tourality to your mobile phone is described at the Download section. Either you can install Tourality directly 'over-the-air' on your mobile phone or can you download the installation files to your computer to save the costs for the mobile download (about 1.4 MB).

Tourality Account
Every player has a Tourality Account that can instantly be created at Signup - completely free of charge! With this Tourality Account it's up to you to play Tourality whenever you want in one of the supported regions (see Where to Play). In addition, you can use all the base features of the platform tourality.com with your account:

- Create Spots, Points of Interest and Game-Templates on your own on basis of Google Maps
- Review Game-Templates created by other users in order to activate them
- Review your games played on basis of Google Maps
- Personal Tourality Profile
- Browse other Member Profiles
- Browse Game-Templates
- Your own Highscores
- Tourality Forum Postings
- Sign up right now and start the virtual reality experience!

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