Geolocation

Although 3D graphics are awesome, as is a socket-based, multiplayer game, neither technology is necessarily new. Geolocation, on the other hand, is somewhat of a more recent phenomenon. With it, we are able to use JavaScript to determine the physical location (geographical location) of a user. Having such a tool at our disposal opens up new possibilities of awesome, highly innovative game concepts.

Now, whenever a new feature comes out that promises to be able to track down exactly where a user is physically located, most people (except for developers, of course) get at least a little scared about it. After all, how creepy would it be to play a very dark, survival horror game, knowing that other people playing the game can see exactly where you live. Luckily for us, the entire geolocation API is opt-in-based, meaning that the user is prompted about the application attempting to capture the user's location and the browser only allows the application to continue to capture the GPS...