Invisible BuildingsConstructor Challenge

• Location-based Game using mobile web• Invisible Buildings: the Game. The story• Invisible Buildings: the story told backwards• About LocoMatrix• How we work• Roll your own

Location-based Game using mobile web

• You are going to create an archaeology game• It will be for mobile phones – iPhone /

Android• It will be for children of around 9-10 years• It will be played over the course of a day• It will educate, inform, entertain!

Story 1 – the Letter

Story 2 – Time Team

Archaeologist

Story 3 – Metal Detectors

Story 4 - GeoFizz

Story 5 – the Dig

Story 6 – Finding the Plot

Story 7 – Hey Presto

Story in Reverse - 1

Reverse 2 – Create the Bits

Reverse 3 – Create the GeoFizz

Reverse 4 – Working with Maps

LocoMatrix

• 3 years in Location-based Games• Started with Nokia phones and separate GPS• Created Fruit Farmer (PacMan like)• Created Treasure Hunt• Awarded most Awesome Use of Digital Tech• Grant with Brighton Uni for schools project

How We Work

• Now work with iPhone, Android + other smartphones (+ tablets)

• Using HTML5• That gives us built in location info• Using Canvas• No AppStore necessary• Just the web

Roll Your Own

• Pick an era – Iron Age, Medieval, Victorian, Modern (or a ship, or aircraft)

• In SketchUp, either– Look for an existing building– Create your own

• Manipulate, to create– Building parts (to dig up)– Floor plan -> GeoFizz

Roll Your Own (2)

• Create a set of items for the metal detector related to your genre

• Add to the catalogue – you will need a photo and some text (goes into Joomla! CMS)

Roll Your Own (3)

Roll Your Own (4)

Roll Your Own (5)

Roll Your Own (6)

Questions

• Questions on presentation• Questions on mechanics• What next