Location-Based Gaming Play in Public Space /

• Main Author: Leorke, Dale (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Human geography.; Computer games-Programming.; Culture.; Technology.; Sociology, Urban.; Technology-Sociological aspects.; Digital media.; Human Geography.; Game Development.; Culture and Technology.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Science and Technology Studies.; Digital/New Media.

Location-based games emerged in the early 2000s following the commercialisation of GPS and artistic experimentation with 'locative media' technologies. Location-based games are played in everyday public spaces using GPS and networked, mobile technologies to track their players' locati...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• Part One: Discourses and Ideologies
• 2. A Definition and Brief History of Location-based Games (2001-8)
• 3. 'The City Becomes the Game's Playground': Discursive Claims
• Part Two: The App Ecology
• 4. Location-based Gaming's Second Phase (2008 - present)
• 5: Location-based Gaming Apps and the Labour of Play
• Part 3: City-funded Location-based Games
• 6. Urban Policy and Participatory Planning Location-based Games
• 7. Wayfinding and Codemaking in the City of Melbourne
• 8. Conclusion.