Although they are 1823 kilometers apart, the location-based game 'Spy my City' joins the cities of Magdeburg (Germany) and Bilbao (Spain). This game was developed at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in cooperation with Bilbao as one of the student projects that were developed with 7scenes within a class lectured by Corinne Pape last semester called 'mobile city'. 

Students had access to 7scenes and created their own GPS tours and games with it, based on the notion of public authoring. In Spy my City, there were two online teams in Bilbao and four street runners in Magdeburg. The street runners were location scouts - secret agents - who were sent to Magdeburg to spy the city by order of the Basque band Gatibu. The story goes that Gatibu are thinking about playing a gig in Magdeburg while they are on tour. The idea behind the game is that the location scouts are all competing for the job of being Gatibu's city guide when they come and tour Magdeburg. So the location scout who fulfilled most of the tasks on location won the game. All four of them were constantly in contact by phone with the Bilbao team (thanks to the sponsor, mobile carrier e-plus). The tasks included for example spreading the word about Gatibu and sharing Gatibu's music with the people of Magdeburg, finding out if people in Magdeburg are as crazy about football as Gatibu's band members, finding the best location to eat tapas in Magdeburg or putting up a framed picture of the Guggenheim museum in one of Magdeburg's most popular bars. The goal was for the street players to leave real traces from the Basque culture in Magdeburg while the goal for the online players was to leave virtual traces of Magdeburg in Bilbao. In real-time, the Bilbao team set up a Basque website about the spots that the street players in Magdeburg came across. 

The game was a huge success (broadcasted by the Basque television) and they are thinking about doing a follow-up.