The Distinctive Challenges of Pervasive Games as Distributed Real-Time Applications

Pervasive games are an emerging form of distributed real-time application that extend computer gaming out into the real world. From the city streets to the remote wilderness, players with mobile computing devices move through the world, sensors capture information about their current context, includ...

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Published in:2006 Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications p. 3
Main Author: Benford, Steve
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC, USA IEEE Computer Society 02.10.2006
IEEE
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
Applied computing > Computers in other domains > Personal computers and PC applications > Computer games
Computer systems organization > Embedded and cyber-physical systems
Computer systems organization > Real-time systems
Computing methodologies > Machine learning > Machine learning approaches > Stochastic games
Information systems > Information systems applications > Multimedia information systems > Massively multiplayer online games
Networks > Network types > Mobile networks
Networks > Network types > Wireless access networks
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Contextual software domains > Virtual worlds software > Interactive games
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Distributed systems organizing principles > Organizing principles for web applications
Theory of computation > Theory and algorithms for application domains > Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design
ISBN:9780769526973, 0769526977
ISSN:1550-6525
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Summary:Pervasive games are an emerging form of distributed real-time application that extend computer gaming out into the real world. From the city streets to the remote wilderness, players with mobile computing devices move through the world, sensors capture information about their current context, including their location, and this is used to deliver a gaming experience that adapts to where they are, what they are doing, and even how they are feeling. Players becomes unchained from their consoles and experience a game that is interwoven with thereal world and that is potentially available at any place and any time. Pervasive Games raise significant new challenges for the designers of distributed real-time applications, many of which arise from the distinctive characteristics of the underlying fabric of sensing and wireless communications technologies that constitute the ubiquitous computing infrastructure. Drawing on a series of recent collaborations with artists to develop, tour and study pervasive games, I will articulate these distinctive design challenges, exploring issues such as support for location-based play, revealing the nature of the ubiquitous infrastructure to designers, and adapting long-term persistent games with patterns of daily life.
ISBN:9780769526973
0769526977
ISSN:1550-6525
DOI:10.1109/DS-RT.2006.41