Patent ID: 8292735

Claim:
A method of location-based gaming, the method comprising: providing, to mobile computing devices of at least two players, a program executable on the mobile computing devices to play a game between the at least two players; receiving location information from at least one of the mobile computing devices, the location information indicating a physical location of at least one player of the at least two players in a physical world; receiving from the mobile computing devices a target object location based, at least in part, on the location of one of the at least two players, the target object location being a physical location in the physical world; and providing, to the mobile computing devices, data pertaining to a virtual gaming object associated with the target object location, the data for displaying, on a display device of at least one player of the at least two players, the virtual gaming object at a virtual location within the game corresponding to the target object location, the data provided to a given player of the at least two players based on a physical orientation of the given player relative to the target object location and the data updated to reflect changes to the physical orientation of the given player relative to the target object location.