I'm going to build a web application that's going to host urban games.

A user visits my website, clicks "Start game" and starts receiving some SMS messages when gets to some location and has to answer them to get points.

My question: is Play suitable for this kind of application? From what I've read I know for sure it's ok for traditional web applications: user interface for same data storage and manipulation. But what if after clicking the "start button" some logic has to go on its own course? How would I handle parallely checking geolocation of the players (I have API for that)? I guess in some threads that would ping them every ~5 sec. and do some processing but is it possible to just "disconnect" them from the main user interface?

So to sum up: I want an application written in Play that starts a separate thread for a game after clicking "start game" and other users are able to view their data (statisctics etc.), while the threads work their way with the game logic.

I found something like jobs but they are documented for version 1.2 (current one is 2.2).

Sorry for my somewhat fuzzy explenation, I tried to do my best.