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Enriching location-based games with navigational game activities
2017Mobile location-based games are experiences that entertain its players by requiring interactions mainly at points of interest (POIs). Navigation between POIs often involve the use of either a physical or digital map, not taking advantage of the opportunity available to engage users in activities between POIs.
Nadarajah, Stephanie Githa +4 more
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2008
In this chapter we provide an overview of the area of mobile location-based gaming and its relation to maps. Digital maps of various forms are essential to enable the implementation of mobile location-based games and support various key tasks from content authoring and interaction scripting over game state management and location-based interaction at ...
Volker Paelke +2 more
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In this chapter we provide an overview of the area of mobile location-based gaming and its relation to maps. Digital maps of various forms are essential to enable the implementation of mobile location-based games and support various key tasks from content authoring and interaction scripting over game state management and location-based interaction at ...
Volker Paelke +2 more
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Identifying patterns and affordances in location-based games: The practices of Niantic
Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital EntertainmentNiantic is a global company pioneering in the immersive gaming industry, with this feature driven by location-based game mechanics. This paper identifies and analyzes affordances and game patterns related to players' locations in Niantic's games—Peridot,
B. C. D. Silva +3 more
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Cloaking games in location based services
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Secure web services, 2008A prototypical case of data anonymization is location anonymization: here the most common data anonymization technique - k -anonymity - corresponds to cloaking and consists in providing to the potential attacker a large granularity view of the user location. However the anonymizer should take into account that if the landscape is not neutral - so that
G. Gianini, E. Damiani
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Augmented Education: Location-Based Games for Real-World Teaching and Learning Sessions
Augmented Reality Games I, 2019 Peter Mozelius +3 more
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Group Interactions in Location-Based Gaming
Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019Raiding is a format in digital gaming that requires groups of people to collaborate and/or compete for a common goal. In 2017, the raiding format was introduced in the location-based mobile game Pokemon GO, which offers a mixed reality experience to friends and strangers coordinating for in-person raids.
Arpita Bhattacharya +7 more
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Geogames: Designing Location-Based Games from Classic Board Games
IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2006The traditional image of interactive entertainment - games that reduce players' physical involvement to moving a joy stick - is obsolete. Games researchers and designers are already integrating complex movement into games. Location-based games involve body movements beyond figural space - that is, beyond the space of computer screens and small 3D ...
Schlieder, Christoph +2 more
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GeoMakeIt!: A Platform for Developing Location Based Games
2020 15th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMA, 2020Location based or pervasive games are played outdoors from users with GPS enabled smartphone devices and involve physical visits of various geographical locations by the player.
Vasileios Dimitriadis +5 more
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Designing Serious Mobile Location-Based Games
2019The technical requirements of mobile location-based games have been met sufficiently well to make location-based mobile games an everyday object. Games like Ingress or Pokemon GO have experienced a huge popularity. Hence, the question arises how the obvious attraction of these games can be used to achieve goals other than entertainment, such as ...
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge +3 more
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QuizHuntAR: A location-based Augmented Reality game for education
2021 International Conference on Graphics and Interaction (ICGI), 2021Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology whose interest and number of applications has grown constantly in several areas, having great popularity in entertainment, whose advantages benefit areas such as education, namely in the gamification component. Although several attempts have been made in applying Game-based Learning (GBL) in the classroom context ...
Santos, José Eduardo da Silva +1 more
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