LocoMatrix Offers Geolocation Games for Team Building

LocoMatrix - Bombs Away team building geolocation game

MOBILE GAMES PLATFORM CUSTOMISABLE FOR TEAM BUILDING CONSULTANTS

LocoMatrix (www.locomatrix.com) is a UK tech company based in Brighton, developing unique and creative geolocation games and apps to aid team building activities.  Combining puzzle-solving strategy with outdoor activities, LocoMatrix is creating unique uses for current smartphone technologies.  Their latest game, Bombs Away, offers team-building exercises that can be optimised for any location.

The game requires competing teams to work together in a real world environment to locate and diffuse virtual explosives against the clock and before their opponents.  Alongside the LocoMatrix smartphone virtual application, the Bombs Away experience tests teams’ skills such as local area map reading and general knowledge to achieve success.

Aside from this ready-for-market application, Locomatrix also works with team building consultants to develop fully customisable smartphone geolocation games for specific projects.

Moira Nangle, LocoMatrix director (formerly Director of Organisational Development at Virgin Atlantic), commented, “Smartphone GPS technology allows us to develop engaging team building apps that can be used in any location.  LocoMatrix geolocation games provide a virtual environment in the real world, designed to motivate strategic thinking and team development. Depending  on client requirements, we can customise unique learning experiences using widely available smartphone technologies.”

Aside from team building exercises, LocoMatrix develops alternative uses for their geolocation games API, from light-hearted entertainment to more in-depth training programmes as well as ICT education programmes. 

Custom built versions of Locomatrix games can be developed to suit the requirements and needs of brands, marketing agencies and education consultants, amongst others.  The team at LocoMatrix can help design and build bespoke concepts based on geolocation and augmented reality, to deliver not only technology-enhanced outdoor activities, but also motivational experiences.

LocoMatrix develops applications using Adobe AIR – a cross-platform runtime environment for building applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax.

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For more information please contact:    
Jools Moore      
Naked Ape Communications     
jools@naked-ape.co.uk
0771 773 4606

About LocoMatrix:

Richard Vahrman – COO

After gaining a BSc in Biology from Hatfield Poly, Richard worked with Prof. Heinz Wolff at the Clinical Research Institute in Harrow, later helping set up the Institute of Bioengineering at Brunel University, specialising in building robotic equipment for the European Space Agency. He then started up MultiAxis where he invented and marketed a novel method for tracking containers within the dairy industry. On moving to Brighton, he started up Brighton Web, a web hosting and design company, which is still operating with around 200 clients.

Moira Nangle – CEO

Moira was at Virgin Atlantic for 13 years as Director of Organisational Development. In this role she was responsible for Human Resources, Recruitment, and Learning and Development. She now runs her own consultancy and has, amongst her clients, Rolls Royce, Nike, the NHS and Virgin Management Group.  Particular interests are strategy execution, group dynamics and identification, development and fulfilment of potential. She is also a Board member for a number of regional and national charities. She speaks regularly at conferences both in the UK and abroad, most recently for E.ON, the NHS and ING bank.