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Entering an age of playfulness where persistent, pervasive ambient games
create moods and modify behaviour
Mark Eyles Roger Eglin
Advanced Games Research Group
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If the seminal 1976 ambient music album Music for Airports became a 21st century ambient role playing game, what would it play like?
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Overview
• Computer technology• Ambient intelligence• Pervasive games• Ambient music• Ambient games• Ambient Quest• An age of playfulness…
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Growth of computer technology
One computerMany users
One computerOne user
Many computersOne user
Massively manyintelligent computers
One user
Time
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Growth of computer technology
• One computer – Many users– Charles Babbage designs a computer 1821 – EDSAC 1 (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) 1949 the
world’s “first complete and fully operational regular electronic digital stored program computer” (Jones, 2001)
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Growth of computer technology
• One computer – One user– 1981 IBM introduced the ‘personal computer’
Digital Rainbow 100 1982
http://pc-museum.com/officewing.htm
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Growth of computer technology
• Many computers – One user– The current state of play
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Growth of computer technology
• Massively many intelligent computers – One user
Tom Cruise in Minority Report
http://www.visionnet.be/parahologram.html
(Everyone is a user, not just Tom Cruise)
• Ambient intelligent environments (the future)
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Ambient intelligence• There are a number of different technologies
that are enabling the development of ambient intelligence: – Interconnectivity– Artificial intelligence– The proliferation of computers
• These technologies support ambient intelligence, which has:– Ubiquity– Transparency – Intelligence
(Aarts et al., 2001)
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Ambient intelligence predictions
• By 2010, when Intel expects that every chip it produces will have an antenna, there will be around 1,000 microprocessors per person
• Harbor Research predicts that by 2010 worldwide revenues from network-related devices and associated services will be $800bn, around half of which will come from valued-added apps and services.
Department for Trade and Industry http://www.nextwave.org.uk/docs/markets.htm
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Ambient intelligence
• Ambient intelligence environments offer a promising technology for creating pervasive games…
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Computer game properties: Commitment to play
• Learning curve• Play time• Civilization 2 vs. Tetris vs. Hangman
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Computer game properties: Location and movement
• Fixed (Console, PC, Set top box)• Mobile (Mobile phone, Nintendo DS)• Require movement
– In one location (Football, Eye Toy)– In many locations (Alternate Reality Game)
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Computer game properties: Commitment and movement
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Handheld
Pervasive/Ambient games
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Pervasive games
• Pervasive games are games which extend gaming experiences into the real world– They include locative games in which players move
into the real world while playing and their position and actions in the real world affect, and are affected by, events in a virtual world
(Waern, 2006)
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Pervasive games
• Ambient games are a type of pervasive game• The pervasive game examples mentioned
vary from ambient games in – The intention of the games (ambient games create
moods, they are not treasure hunts - ARGs) – The commitment the player makes to the game
(they do not have to put on back packs of computer equipment - AR)
– The level of attention required from the player
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Pervasive and ambient games
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• Ambient music informs ambient games• Brian Eno coined the term ‘ambient music’ on
his 1978 album Ambient 1: Music for Airports • In the sleeve notes of Music for Airports Brian
Eno gives a definition of ambient music:– “Ambient Music must be able to accommodate
many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting” (Eno, 1978)
Ambient music
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Ambient music
• “I wanted to make a kind of music that would actually reduce your focus on this particular moment in time that you happened to be in and make you settle into time a little bit better.” (Eno, 2003)
• Think about the ways games might do this while accommodating many levels of attention and intervention
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Defining ambient games• Progress Quest - a game that requires
minimal player intervention
(www.progressquest.com (Fredricksen, 2004))
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Defining ambient games
• Imagine a game similar to Progress Quest in which, when the player starts the game, their actions in the real world affect progress in the game world
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Defining ambient games• The player chooses the degree to which they
wish to manage events in the game• At one extreme the game runs itself, gathering
data from the player’s actions in the real world and automatically applying this to the game world
• At the other extreme the player can determine how the real world data is applied in the game world, micromanaging game interactions.
Passive Active
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Defining ambient games
• An ambient game should be ‘as ignorable as it is interesting’ (Eno, 1978)
• Players can dip in and out of the game• The game is persistent, running in the
background, creating a mood, while players are engaged in other activities
• They may respond to the game by modifying their behaviour to affect their game progress
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Defining ambient games• Ambient games may be controlled by
everyday actions (i.e. not using a dedicated game input
device, mouse or keyboard) in everyday, real world environments that have gameplay consequences in a virtual game world
• These game play environments may be facilitated by ambient intelligent technologies that embed the game transparently in the environment
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Defining ambient games• Ambient games allow the player to have
experiences that range from superficially shallow to profoundly deep
• The player is able to choose how they focus their attention on the game, and can alter their degree of attention at will
• As with Music for Airports an ambient game should accommodate many levels of attention, many levels of involvement or intervention, creating a mood in the environment
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Defining ambient games
• The involvement of the player in the game is not determined by the game
• This is not a ‘push’ technology, but is determined by the player who can choose when to ‘pull’ game experiences from the ambient game
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A definition of ambient games
• Ambient games are designed to create a mood in an environment through game interactions with players whose behaviours, mediated by an ambient intelligent environment or similar transparent game interface, create changes in a virtual game world.
• Ambient games are persistent and are as interesting as they are ignorable, facilitating a wide variation in player determined levels of involvement, from unaware to intensely attentive play.
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Ambient Quest – single player ambient game simulation
• Distance walked by players determines progress in the virtual game world
• Players may engage more or less with the game by– Altering, or not altering, distance walked– Choosing moves for their avatars or letting the
game move them automatically
• The game is ‘always on’
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Virtual world…
• The Ambient Quest game world consists of a virtual environment containing quests to complete (achieved by defeating monsters at various locations)
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Ambient Quest – single player ambient game simulation
• Ambient Quest is designed to create a mood in the playing environment, overlaying a sense fantasy adventure on the real world and giving a hint of other hidden worlds
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Future ambient games
• Imagine a job which involves fairly repetitive actions which are not in themselves especially rewarding.
• Could an ambient game be designed that ran alongside this work and brought an element of playfulness to the job?
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Future ambient games
• Ambient Shelf Stacking Game– Imagine an ambient game that drew its
data from supermarket shelf stacking – Employees belong to different teams that
are represented by competing avatars in a virtual world
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Future ambient games
• Co-operative gaming– Ambient Garden Game
• Imagine an ambient game in which players are together trying to nurture the plants in a virtual garden through their actions in the real world
• Interpersonal relationships– Ambient Relationships Game
• Imagine a Sims like game where the players’ real world actions affect relationships of avatars in a Second Life like virtual world
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Final thoughts
• Game players may play even when they are not playing!
• Embed mood and behaviour altering game playing in the world around us
• Open ended, endless nature of play points towards new mechanisms and ways of playing games in an emerging age of playfulness
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Final thought
‘It is another world entirely and is enclosed within this one; it is in a sense a universal retreating mirror image of this one, with a peculiar geography … composed of a series of concentric rings, which as one penetrates deeper into the other world, grow larger … each perimeter of this series of concentricities encloses a larger world within’
Little Big by John Crowley (Crowley, 1981)
A sense of otherworldliness:
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Questions
Entering an age of playfulness where persistent, pervasive ambient games
create moods and modify behaviour
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