State of the ArtLet’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social GamingA Revisited Standard
Urban Social Gaming
A Revisited Standard
Centre de Recerca i Innovacio de Catalunya, CRIC, Barcelona
Sitges, June 27-28th, 2013
Y. Richard CRIC Brainstorming 1 / 6
State of the ArtLet’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social GamingA Revisited Standard
Outline
State of the Art
Let’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Y. Richard CRIC Brainstorming 2 / 6
State of the ArtLet’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social GamingA Revisited Standard
State of the Art
What is currently USG!Role playing games with rules, characters, items, etc. played on a long timeperiod. Adding & using augmented reality contents and feedback from thedevice sensors. Games needing a lot of interactions with the device userinterface.
What is not actually USG!Simple like the games you were playing in the recreation areas when you werechild and in a limited times, with a real physical dynamics. The game get youmoving. The game reconnect people to the places they inhabit!
What we propose!A geolocalization game platform, cloud computing arbited, with simplegeometric rules & highly configurable. We do not care about sensors,augmented reality, touch interaction, etc.. We only care about the capability ofthe device, to process in real time, localisation informations coming from all theplayers, for the visual rendering and orientation of the game.
Y. Richard CRIC Brainstorming 3 / 6
State of the ArtLet’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social GamingA Revisited Standard
E.g. Capture the Flag
The Players Teams & Flags Delaunay Triangulation
Automatic or Assisted Game Configuration
Number of TeamsTeam Partition based on Spatial Distribution
Polygon Mesh...
Y. Richard CRIC Brainstorming 4 / 6
State of the ArtLet’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social GamingA Revisited Standard
E.g. Capture the Flag
Concept play: Groups of Delaunaytriangulation, playing against eachothers
Some Basic Rules
Green triangle bigger than Red. Redtriangle keep the flag.
Red triangle inside than Green.The 3Red players leave the game.
Y. Richard CRIC Brainstorming 5 / 6
State of the ArtLet’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social GamingA Revisited Standard
Hummm
Seems too simple, too easyWhy you can’t find it on the net? Why it is not yet available? Would you play???
Possibilities• No space limitation, neither locomotion modes
• Lost device signal : not an issue & can be integrated as a strategy
• Make the geometric rules designable & configurable
• Make the game bankable for the winning team (e.g. 1 euro per player to join the game)
Short term ObjectiveMake a Buzz & Sell the platform to a Major Social Network company.
Links• Location-based game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based game
• List of notable geosocial games http://geosocialgames.com/list-of-gsgs
• Dissertation on Location-based Games http://www.pervasivegames.blogspot.com.es
• The Mobile City project and urban gamingDe Lange-The-Mobile-City-project-and-urban-gaming Second Nature 2009.pdf
Y. Richard CRIC Brainstorming 6 / 6
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