urban social gaming pitch

State of the ArtLet’s Play!

Urban Dictionnary: Hummm

Urban Social GamingA Revisited Standard

Urban Social Gaming

A Revisited Standard

Centre de Recerca i Innovacio de Catalunya, CRIC, Barcelona

Sitges, June 27-28th, 2013

Y. Richard CRIC Brainstorming 1 / 6




Outline

State of the Art

Let’s Play!






State of the Art

What is currently USG!Role playing games with rules, characters, items, etc. played on a long timeperiod. Adding & using augmented reality contents and feedback from thedevice sensors. Games needing a lot of interactions with the device userinterface.

What is not actually USG!Simple like the games you were playing in the recreation areas when you werechild and in a limited times, with a real physical dynamics. The game get youmoving. The game reconnect people to the places they inhabit!

What we propose!A geolocalization game platform, cloud computing arbited, with simplegeometric rules & highly configurable. We do not care about sensors,augmented reality, touch interaction, etc.. We only care about the capability ofthe device, to process in real time, localisation informations coming from all theplayers, for the visual rendering and orientation of the game.





E.g. Capture the Flag

The Players Teams & Flags Delaunay Triangulation

Automatic or Assisted Game Configuration

Number of TeamsTeam Partition based on Spatial Distribution

Polygon Mesh...





E.g. Capture the Flag

Concept play: Groups of Delaunaytriangulation, playing against eachothers

Some Basic Rules

Green triangle bigger than Red. Redtriangle keep the flag.

Red triangle inside than Green.The 3Red players leave the game.





Hummm

Seems too simple, too easyWhy you can’t find it on the net? Why it is not yet available? Would you play???

Possibilities• No space limitation, neither locomotion modes

• Lost device signal : not an issue & can be integrated as a strategy

• Make the geometric rules designable & configurable

• Make the game bankable for the winning team (e.g. 1 euro per player to join the game)

Short term ObjectiveMake a Buzz & Sell the platform to a Major Social Network company.

Links• Location-based game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based game

• List of notable geosocial games http://geosocialgames.com/list-of-gsgs

• Dissertation on Location-based Games http://www.pervasivegames.blogspot.com.es

• The Mobile City project and urban gamingDe Lange-The-Mobile-City-project-and-urban-gaming Second Nature 2009.pdf
