Are you ready to be a mobile assassin? Get ready to aim your phone!

Mobile Assassins is an updated/mobile version of the traditional big game Assassins. This time your camera phone is the weapon of assassination

A shared love of spy games and ubiquitous mobile applications brought Ran and Jenny together to develop Mobile Assassins. Both of these ITPers have backgrounds in Electrical Engineering and tom foolery.

The game Assassins has been around for years. According to Wikipedia:

"Assassins is...a game were...each player has a "target"...that they are trying to kill, and each player is in turn the target of another assassin...Players are assigned their targets by the game's coordinators, but do not know the identity of the person assigned to target them. "

You might have played it back in college with squirt guns as the means of assassination or maybe amongst your friends with socks/water balloons as the weapon of choice.

We've brought this traditional game into the mobile age by repurposing your trusty camera phone as 1)the means of target deployment and 2)the means of assassination.

Mobile assassins is both a game and a valuable tool for icebreaking and team building/bonding. We invision the game being used in the following scenarios:

1) Big game tournaments.
2) College orientation.
3) Corporate and group bonding excercises.
4) Conferences.

1) Join a mobile assassins game by logging into mobileassassins.com.
2) Complete your profile by entering your name, phone number and mobile carrier.
2) You will recieve a confirmation text message asking you to take a camera photo of yourself and send it to hit@mobileassassins.com
3) The game will begin
4) You will receive an MMS message containing a photo of your target
5) You will be sent an SMS game stat messages listing how many gamers have been assassinated every 30 mins.
6) Locate your target by any means possible.
7) Stealthily take a photo of his/her face frontwise. Send it to hit@mobileassassins.com
8) Your target will recieve a message that they must confirm that they were hit. The game will be user/community monitored for now.
9) You will recieve an MMS with the photo of your most recent hit's target, who will be your new target
10) If someone tries to assassinate you, you may counter hit them first. Once he/she is eliminated, you will continue with your current target
11) The game is over when only one assassin is left or if game end-time has been reached

Mobile Assassins, is a "big game" with both SMS/MMS and web components. It was crafted from php/perl/html code along with some blood sweat and tears.

Via "extreme programming", Ran and Jenny learned php and mySQL administration. They also learned the nuances of the ways various mobile carriers handle SMS and MMS messaging.