This document discusses urban social gaming and proposes a new type of location-based game platform. It defines what is and is not considered urban social gaming currently. It then proposes a geolocated game platform with simple geometric rules that uses cloud computing and real-time player location information from devices to render the game visually. An example game discussed is capture the flag, which could use Delaunay triangulation of player groups and configurable rules. The objective is to create a buzz around this platform and sell it to a major social network company.

1. State of the Art
Let’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social Gaming
A Revisited Standard
Urban Social Gaming
A Revisited Standard
Centre de Recerca i Innovaci´o de Catalunya, CRIC, Barcelona
Sitges, June 27-28th, 2013
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2. State of the Art
Let’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social Gaming
A Revisited Standard
Outline
State of the Art
Let’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
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3. State of the Art
Let’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social Gaming
A Revisited Standard
State of the Art
What is currently USG!
Role playing games with rules, characters, items, etc. played on a long time
period. Adding & using augmented reality contents and feedback from the
device sensors. Games needing a lot of interactions with the device user
interface.
What is not actually USG!
Simple like the games you were playing in the recreation areas when you were
child and in a limited times, with a real physical dynamics. The game get you
moving. The game reconnect people to the places they inhabit!
What we propose!
A geolocalization game platform, cloud computing arbited, with simple
geometric rules & highly configurable. We do not care about sensors,
augmented reality, touch interaction, etc.. We only care about the capability of
the device, to process in real time, localisation informations coming from all the
players, for the visual rendering and orientation of the game.
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4. State of the Art
Let’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social Gaming
A Revisited Standard
E.g. Capture the Flag
The Players Teams & Flags Delaunay Triangulation
Automatic or Assisted Game Configuration
Number of Teams
Team Partition based on Spatial Distribution
Polygon Mesh
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5. State of the Art
Let’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social Gaming
A Revisited Standard
E.g. Capture the Flag
Concept play: Groups of Delaunay
triangulation, playing against each
others
Some Basic Rules
Green triangle bigger than Red. Red
triangle keep the flag.
Red triangle inside than Green.The 3
Red players leave the game.
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6. State of the Art
Let’s Play!
Urban Dictionnary: Hummm
Urban Social Gaming
A Revisited Standard
Hummm
Seems too simple, too easy
Why 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 Objective
Make 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 gaming
De Lange-The-Mobile-City-project-and-urban-gaming Second Nature 2009.pdf
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