New App Lets You ‘Assassinate’ People in Real Life

5 cents per bullet?<p>What ever happened to just paying $40 for a game and getting to use it forever? (This killed Candy Crush for me. I love the gameplay dynamic and the graphics, but the constant upselling just makes me want me smash my phone into a fine paste and then feed the paste to the game&#x27;s developers.)

This appears to be a digital variation of an already famous and commonly played game called Assassin: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin_%28game%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Assassin_%28game%29</a><p>That said, considering the negative attention received by the latter, which is remarkably benign, I don&#x27;t know how Dustcloud will fair with authorities.

Whoa whoa whoa. You have to pay for the gear, and <i>also</i> for each bullet?

Given the prevalence of gun ownership and concealed carry permits in the US, this is a tragedy waiting to happen.

It seems like the &quot;guns and bullets&quot; aspect of this are a) going to be a problem with the authorities, and b) an unnecessary cost.<p>Why not just an app that lets you play spy vs spy or zombie vs human based on proximity? Shaking your phone at another player within 3m counts as a kill.

Amusing concept until the cops show up with real guns and the wrong idea.

My shallow Google search seems to indicate smart phones with IR are not common (though clearly I&#x27;m a smart phone ignoramus).<p>If phones with IR were common, you could just download an Assassin app or any of a variety of other apps for impromptu game playing.<p>Custom made IR toys clearly are a step backward in any case.

Here&#x27;s their kickstarter: <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/enter-the-dustcloud/dustcloud-turn-your-street-into-a-battlefield" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;enter-the-dustcloud&#x2F;dust...</a>

So they basically made a real <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotcha!_(1985_film)" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gotcha!_(1985_film)</a> app and stuff. I wonder how many developers of the app watched the film when they were kids... I mean, if they&#x27;re that old :-)

Will wait for new news headlines where some poor chump gets shot by the authorities because of aiming a device at someone else (like James Bond).<p>As with kids with toy guns in the past. Just google for &quot;officer shot 13 year old with toy gun&quot;

Clever, but it will never take off. These real world type games always tank. Why? Because no one wants to go running off randomly looking for a stranger whilst looking like a complete twat. And making actually pay for this? pfft

If you want to know where they stole the basic idea from, my friend Yutai Liao created <a href="http://www.streetwars.net/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.streetwars.net&#x2F;</a> years and years ago.

ok, sorry but if you can&#x27;t &quot;shoot&quot; with the app but require a custom tool, it will never ever reach saturation in any area (outside New York) for it being fun to play against strangers.

Cops are going to shoot these people.