Sniper Dojo App Project

By Shelley

Over the weekend, a friend of mine announced that he is working on a non-violent first person shooter app designed to utilize the math and mental skills required for long-distance marksmanship.

Here’s the post from the Facebook page, to help you understand what exactly he’s trying to do:

For those who want to follow along:
I want to build a new game, a first person shooter, but not one that rewards you for maiming the elderly and law enforcement. So no Grand Theft Auto look-alikes here. I’d rather have a game that teaches useful long range marksmanship skills, which involves quite a bit of thinking and no small amount of trigonometry. And instead of shooting up gangsters, we’ll shoot up garbage cans.

But I can’t call the game “Non-violent marksmanship with Trigonometry” I’ll never see a single download! So Sniper Dojo is about the best name I could come up with where the domain name was still available. That’s how I got the name.