Introduction pervasive game
- 1. Introduction to pervasive performance Pervasive Games pervasive entertainment pervasive play pervasive experience Mag. Thomas Wagner Pervasive Entertainment Fachhochschule Salzburg Lab Salzburg (PELS) University of Applied Sciences Multimedia Technologies December | 2010
- 2. Pervasive Games | Overview Overview Examples Big Urban Games and Pervasive Performances Determination LARP Pervasive ARGs Games Mixed-Reality Games Salen & Zimmerman Geo-Location Games Huizinga Urban Adventure Games Pervasive Games Assassination Games Markus Montola Extraordinary Interfaces for Games Jane McGonigal Reese Brown Further Reading
- 3. Pervasive Games | Determination Determination
- 4. Pervasive Games | Determination | Pervasive Pervasive pervasive, to pervade sth. (engl.) “This magazine will treat ubiquitous (durchdringend, durchdringen) computing and pervasive computing as synonyms – they mean exactly the Pervasive is often used as synonym same thing and will be used inter- for ubiquitous, but actually these changeably throughout the magazine.” terms mean something different S. Mahadev editor of IEEE’s first issue of Pervasive Computing in 2002 pervasive -> active ubiquitous -> passive
- 5. Pervasive Games | Determination | Games Games Huizinga play as a free action, outside of the ordinary life Salen and Zimmerman just acting “as if” „A game is a system in which players has its own timeframe and space engage in an artificial conflict, defined there is a “secret” community by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.“ Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals Magic Circle and Suits, lusoury attitude Rules: constituative rules, operative rules, implicit rules
- 6. Pervasive Games | Determination | Games Digital games “wherever there is thechnology there are games!” e.g. Tennis for Two, Spacewar!
- 7. Pervasive Games | Determination | Pervasive Games Pervasive Games social IPerG expansion „Pervasive game is a game that has one temporal or more salient features that expand expansion the contractual magic circle of play socially, spatially or temporally.“ Pervasive Games: Theory and Design spatial expansion
- 8. Pervasive Games | Determination | Pervasive Games McGonigal This might be a game: ubiquitous play and performance at the turn of the twenty-first century ubicomp games > colonization pervasive games > distraction ubiquitous games > activation
- 9. Pervasive Games | Determination | Pervasive Games Brown (technological view) Pervasive Games Are Not A Genre! They are a sub-genre. ubiquitous computing games pervasive games big games
- 10. Pervasive Games | Examples Examples
- 11. Pervasive Games | Examples | Big Urban Games Big Urban Games and Pervasive Performances “All Game Play is Performance” e.g. Radio Ballett, Improv Everywhere, Flash Mobs, The New Games Movement, The Big Urban Game, PacManhatten ... between intervention and large-scale public gaming
- 12. Pervasive Games | Examples | Big Urban Games Radio Ballet LIGNA, 2002/03 art projekt, public intervention; local radio transmission and small/ pocket radios; Exercise in lingering not according to the rules. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI3pfa5QNZI&feature=player_embedded
- 13. Pervasive Games | Examples | Big Urban Games BUG Big Urban Game Frank Lantz et.al. , 2003 large scale game project; web-based voting > vulonteers move the inflatable game pieces; race between three teams, each move a 25-foot high inflatable game piece through a series of Twin Cities’ checkpoints in the shortest amount of time http://www.decisionproblem.com/bug/bug2.html
- 14. Pervasive Games | Examples | LARP Life Action Roleplay (LARP) “Slip into a role, but not just on the paper.” e.g. Medival, Fantasy or Vamipre LARP Games, Prosopopeia Bardo 1 & 2
- 15. Pervasive Games | Examples | LARP Prosopopeia Bardo 2 „Momentum“ IPerG (SICS, The Interactive Institue, University of Tampere, Company P) 2006 a pervasive long-time larp staged in Sweden in 2006. 30 participants took on characters as dead revolutionaries re-entering our world, this time to save their own from oblivion. The larp used a host of technology installations, mobile equipment, and an advanced system for game mastering to enable the game to be ongoing around the clock for 34 days.of time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B8XFRrhack&feature=player_embedded
- 16. Pervasive Games | Examples | ARGs Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) “When reality und fiction overlap!” e.g. The Beast, I love bees, Majestic, Secrets of Copenhagen, Perplex City, ...
- 17. Pervasive Games | Examples | ARGs I love bees 42entertainment, 2004 Based on the Halo fiction, ilovebees was an original radio drama that was deconstructed and delivered to consumers over an unlikely broadcast medium: ringing payphones. ilovebees was a giant multi-player, multi-platform story, immersing players in the world of Halo2 in the four months leading up to the title’s record shattering launch. http://www.ilovebees.com/ http://www.42entertainment.com/bees.html
- 18. Pervasive Games | Examples | Mixed-Reality Games Mixed-Reality Games “Improve Reality!” e.g. AR Quake, Epidemic Menace, DEMOR, ... ... in a very different form ... artvertiser, wikitude, layar or WARA (http://selectparks.net/~julian/theartvertiser/, Julian Oliver @ selectparks)
- 19. Pervasive Games | Examples | Mixed-Reality Games AR Quake Wearable Computer Lab, University of South Australia, 2002-06 ARQuake is an Augmented Reality (AR) version of the popular Quake game. Augmented reality is the overlaying of computer generated information onto the real world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNYfkxqiB6g&feature=player_embedded
- 20. Pervasive Games | Examples | Mixed-Reality Games DEMOR Students of the Hoogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, 2006 egoshooter for the blind; defined public space; 3D sound environment; location-based, pointing/aiming and shooting
- 21. Pervasive Games | Examples | Urban Adventure Games Urban Adventure Games “Interactive city guide or exceptional storytelling?” e.g. ReXplorer, Faust, Uncle Roy all around You, Rider Spoke
- 22. Pervasive Games | Examples | Adventure Games ReXplorer Media Computing Group – RWTH Aachen, ETH Zürich – Dept. of Architecture, 2006 location-based mobile game; defined public space; audio for storytelling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuefBtnQGWg
- 23. Pervasive Games | Examples | Adventure Games Uncle Roy all Around You Blast Theory, 2003 location-based mobile game with street palyer and online player, who collaborate in their search for uncle roy; defined public space; audio for storytelling http://vimeo.com/7182676
- 24. Pervasive Games | Examples | Geo-Location Games Geo-Location Games “Play everywhere!” e.g. GeoCaching, Mogi Mogi, Insectopia, ... question about absolute or relative positioning
- 25. Pervasive Games | Examples | Assassination Games Assassination/Action Games “Shot, shot ... your dead?” e.g. Killer: The Game of Assassination, Paintball, BotFighter, ...
- 26. Pervasive Games | Examples | Extraordinary Interfaces Extraordinary Interfaces for Games “new ideas, new interfaces for exceptional gameplay” e.g. Brainball, PainStation, Barcode Battler/Warrior, Nexus duo-device, WARA, Abgestürzt! ...
- 27. Pervasive Games | Further Reading Further Reading Pervasive Games, Theory and Design Experiences on the Boundary Between Life and Play M. Montola, J. Stenros, A. Waern (FH Bibliothek) Rules of Play, Game Design Fundamentals K. Salen, E. Zimmerman (+ The Game Design Reader) Space Time Play, Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The next Level F. v. Borries, S. P. Walz and M. Böttger