MobileSeriousGamesRoundupBoston – May 17, 2011Alan Au
1st Annual
Almost done!
Biomedical informatics guyGame industry journalist
Not a fashion/art directorNot a mobile games expert (yet!)
http://twitter.com/#!/Alan_Au
Games
I play games …
… when I have time.
http://cowclicktivism.org/
Mobile
146.42 millionhttp://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/historical_data/pdf/consolidated_sales_e1103.pdf
108.62 millionhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_simple.svg
74.6 millionhttp://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1306513 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1543014
*and growing rapidly
Serious Mobile
One Bus Away
http://onebusaway.org/
http://opendatakit.org/
Open Data Kit
Mobile Games
Technology convergence
1980 1989 2004
1997 2003
2008
160 x 144 pixels
640x960 pixels
Serious Games
Oregon Trail(1981)
* The game dates back to 1971
http://www.citypages.com/2011-01-19/news/oregon-trail-how-three-minnesotans-forged-its-path/
Oregon Trail(1996)
Oregon Trail(2008)
http://www.gameloft.com/mobile/the-oregon-trail/
Oregon Trail(2010)
http://apps.facebook.com/theoregontrail/
http://www.moonbasealphagame.com/
Moonbase Alpha
Serious + Mobile?
Does this make sense?
?
LearningFood & DietUn-Smoking
General HealthLifestyle
Location-basedFitness & Exercise
Learning
Jetset
http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/game.aspx?game=jetset
http://www.silverbackers.org/
Silverbackers
Freedom
http://www.freedomhivaids.in/FreedomHivAids.htm
Mobile = good for ICTD
MILLEE (literacy)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mattkam/lab/millee.html
?… trouble with academic
games
eSmart
*this is not the actual game
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/03/21/mcdonalds_ds_training/
http://www.topdocgame.com/
Top Doc
Brain Age
http://brainage.com/launch/index.jsp
31
… accidentally serious?
… $$$-driven knockoffs
You are what you eat.You are what you eat.
MindlessEating
Challenge
http://mindlesseating.org/
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~agrimes/docs/grimes_ubicomp10.pdf
OrderUP!
*not to be confused with the “Order Up!” Wii game
PickChow!
*not mobile (yet)
http://www.zisboombah.com/pickchow#
Thank you for not smokingThank you for not smoking.
http://www.grap.ca/site/francais/html/nicot_documents.htmhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nicot/id416698100?mt=8
Smoking cessation
NICOT
My StopSmokingCoach
http://www.ubi.com/US/Games/Info.aspx?pId=7150
Health games?
http://www.allergiesattack.com/
AllergiesAttack
Er, it’s health-themed …
http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/game.aspx?game=colorfall
Colorfall
Insurer-funded games
http://www.ecu.edu/biofeedback/http://www.popcap.com/games/iphone/peggle
Peggle
… accidentally serious!
45
iTunesApp Store
How do we categorize these?
Lifestyle?
http://www.textjab.us/
Textjab
Socially-driven games
http://myhappyplanet.iplay.com/
My HappyPlanet
Location, location, location!
Foursquare
Uh … is this a game?
https://foursquare.com/
Move around!
Goldwalker
http://humanagames.com/#/solutions/mobilegames/
http://impulsivepillowpilates.blogspot.com/
ImpulsivePillowPilates
PicoPoke
http://gambit.mit.edu/loadgame/picopoke.php
http://qubop.com/apps
Tapcloud
My WeightLoss Coach
http://myweightlosscoachgame.us.ubi.com/
http://ils.intel-research.net/ubifit
UbiFit
Zamzee
http://www.hopelab.org/innovative-solutions/zamzee/
Pokéwalker
http://www.pokemongoldsilver.com/us/#/features/pokewalker/
… can be spoofed
LearningFood & DietUn-Smoking
General HealthLifestyle
Location-basedFitness & Exercise
• Does mobile make sense?• How do we categorize these?• Some are accidentally serious• What about academic projects?• Some aren’t even really games• Lots of games! (I bet I missed some)
Click a cow?What now?
Ben SawyerBeth Bryant
University of Washington(BHI, ISIS, HCDE, Change, dub)
Thank you!