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MMS
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Gaming on the move: urban experience as a new paradigm for mobile pervasive game design
In this paper, we describe a pervasive treasure hunting game: “Team exploration” based on the Transhumance ad hoc wifi platform. The testers of this game came up with innovati...
Annie Gentes, Aude Guyot-Mbodji, Isabelle M. Demeu...
CIE
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Atomic actions -- molecular experience: theory of pervasive gaming
The attempt of this paper is to describe and analyze the formalisms of pervasive games and pervasive gaming (PG). As the title indicates, PG consists of atomic entities that never...
Bo Kampmann Walther
CIE
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Pervasive game flow: understanding player enjoyment in pervasive gaming
Player enjoyment is perhaps the most important issue in successful game design, but is previously not addressed in the area of Pervasive games. Departing from the GameFlow model of...
Kalle Jegers
GI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
ECHOES - A Crazy Multiplayer Pervasive Game
: Computer games play an increasing role in our modern information society. Besides pure entertainment, games can provide valuable input for social interaction, learning, etc. Rece...
Karen Detken, Carlos Martinez, Darren Carlson, Var...
FUNGAMES
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Pervasive Mobile Games - A New Mindset for Players and Developers
Pervasive games are an emerging new game genre, which includes context information as an integral part of the game. These games differ from traditional games in that they expand sp...
Hannu Korhonen, Hannamari Saarenpää, Jan...
IWEC
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Live Role-Playing Games: Implications for Pervasive Gaming
Abstract. Live role-playing (LRP) games stand as powerful metaphorical models for the various digital and ubiquitous forms of entertainment that gather under the term pervasive gam...
Jennica Falk, Glorianna Davenport
IE
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Place as media in pervasive games
By blurring the boundary between game fiction and reality, Pervasive Games impact the shared space of the city areas that they use as gaming platform. Drawing on notions of spatia...
Hugh Davies
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Hunting for fun: solitude and attentiveness in collaboration
The design of online collaborative computer games and pervasive games can learn from the everyday practice of deer hunting. We present an ethnographic study revealing how hunters ...
Oskar Juhlin, Alexandra Weilenmann
CRITICAL
2005
14 years 4 days ago
Involving non-players in pervasive games
In traditional computer games, it is not uncommon for the game world to be inhabited by numerous computergenerated characters, Non-Player Characters (NPCs). In pervasive games, pl...
Jenny Niemi, Susanna Sawano, Annika Waern
ACMACE
2008
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
Evaluation of a pervasive game for domestic energy engagement among teenagers
In this paper, we present Power Agent - a pervasive game designed to encourage teenagers and their families to reduce energy consumption in the home. The idea behind this mobile p...
Anton Gustafsson, Magnus Bång