Location-based game A map of players' trails in a location-based game. A location-based game (or location-enabled game) is a type of pervasive game in which the gameplay evolves and progresses via a player's location. Thus, location-based games must provide some mechanism to allow the player to report their location, frequently this is through some kind of localization technology, for example by using satellite positioning through GPS. "Urban gaming" or "street games" are typically multi-player location-based games played out on city streets and built up urban environments. Various mobile devices can be used to play location-based games; these games games have been referred to as "Location-based mobile games",[1] merging location-based games and mobile games. Some games have used embedded mobile technologies such as Near Field Communication, Bluetooth, and UWB. Organizations[edit] Learning[edit] Location-based games may induce learning. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Escrito en la pared Gamers turn cities into a battleground - 12 June 2005 Read full article Continue reading page |1|2 Matt has been abandoned on Tower Bridge, London, with nothing except his clothes and a mobile phone. A woman dressed in black walks past, and Matt receives a text message to follow her. He doesn't know who she is, or where she is going. Matt is playing Uncle Roy All Around You, where for one day he is the main character in an elaborate experimental fantasy game played out across the streets of London. Urban gaming started in the 1990s with the advent of "geocaching", where GPS is used to pinpoint exact locations. "The limitations of physical space makes playing the game exciting," says Michele Chang, a technology ethnographer with Intel in Portland, Oregon. Game evolution While many of the first real-world games involved using separate GPS receivers and handheld computers, mobile phones and PDAs that integrate such technology are catching up. Another phone-based game is a variant of the classic arcade game Tron. Treasure hunts More from the web
Self Aware | Making games that connect people Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked ... as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia By Claudia Joseph for MailOnline Created: 13:38 GMT, 12 July 2008 He is perhaps the most famous, or infamous, artist alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure. Since Banksy made his name with his trademark stencil-style 'guerrilla' art in public spaces - on walls in London, Brighton, Bristol and even on the West Bank barrier separating Israelis and Palestinians - his works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds. He has dozens of celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera. Enlarge In the frame: The man in this photograph, taken in Jamaica four years ago, is believed to be Banksy He is also known for his headline-making stunts, such as leaving an inflatable doll dressed as a Guantanamo prisoner in Disneyland, California, and hanging a version of the Mona Lisa - but with a smiley face - in the Louvre, Paris. A network of myths has grown up around him.
What is Tourality?Tourality | Tourality Tourality, as a location based game (LBG), is a novel kind of game. Your real environment such as a urban district, some park or even a wood serve as a virtual playground, where your location and movements are identified via GPS-signal emitted from your cell- or smartphone. Your target is to reach certain predefined spots in the game set by moving towards them with your mobile device. Challenges You can battle other gamers in the multiplayer mode, join forces in a team or even compare your highscore as single player with other gamers in the Tourality-community. Unlike Geocaching, Tourality focuses on time, your aim is to be faster than the other. Game Sets The game sets are being generated automatically for you via an OpenStreetMap interface. Goodie Spots In a game set, so called “goodie spots” can appear, conceiling something special. Gadgets Gadgets are virtual items and devices you can buy, activate and apply throughout the game. Gold Gold is the virtual currency in Tourality. Trophies
'Tox' graffiti artist convicted of criminal damage | Art and design To some he is an urban icon, a street artist dedicated to bombing his tag on more, and riskier, places than any other in the UK. But Daniel Halpin – or Tox, "king of taggers" and scourge of London Underground's cleaning force – faces the possibility of prison walls as his only canvas after a jury decided his art was vandalism and convicted him of criminal damage. The 26-year-old, from Camden, north London, whose masked image and story of anarchism has featured on television documentaries and in magazines, was found guilty of a string of graffiti attacks across England after prosecutor Hugo Lodge told a jury: "He is no Banksy. As he was remanded in custody for sentencing, his artistic merit was further questioned by the reformed guerilla graffiti artist turned establishment darling Ben "Eine" Flynn, whose work was presented to the US president, Barack Obama, by the prime minister, David Cameron, last year. "Now, there is less time to do something nice.
Quick, After Him - Pac-Man Went Thataway By WARREN ST. JOHNPublished: May 9, 2004 ONE recent sunny morning, in the student center overlooking Washington Square Park, four New York University graduate students wearing brightly colored sheets and sneakers and carrying cellphones gathered for a mission. Somewhere out there on the streets of Greenwich Village, a fellow student was running around in a yellow Pac-Man suit. ''Our strategy is a dragnet to block all the roads Pac-Man might go down,'' said Michael Olson, a k a Clyde the ghost. So began a test run for a game of Pac-Manhattan, a real-world version of the 1980's video game played on the streets of New York and the latest example of a so-called ''big game'': a contest that uses wireless devices like cellphones and global positioning beacons to track players as they move through the urban grid, turning cities into vast game boards. Frank Lantz, who teaches a class on the subject in N.Y.U.' And perhaps inevitably, corporations are getting in on the act.