Best Scene in Town Mobile Game Design Challenge

Best Scene in Town
@ IF Kortrijk
Lukie Stalenhoef
Ronald klein Tank

woensdag 20 oktober 2010

General
Introduction


The situation today
• Current situation: Mobile is the new mass medium -
3g/4g networks, critical mass smartphones, strong
development platforms, distribution & payments
systems (Appstores)
• A critical next step: easy creative software to design
and publish interactive mobile content.


Mobile Storytelling platform
• Next step: from POI’s to Storytelling
• Ease-of-use: no programming skills needed
• Complete: fully featured set of tools
• Open: everyone can create a ‘scene’
• Extensible: adding features should be easy
• Innovative services: location-based content
management, rule-based logic
& realtime mobile communication.
• Technology company: working together
with partners to offer high innovation in
mobile city experiences.


Share a scene
• Publish to all: anyone can play your scene
• Publish to some: set up events for groups
• Design your custom scene page
• Embed the scene widget on your blog or social network
• Share players’ activities in real-time and anytime later
(activity = gps-trace + uploaded media + scores)
• Share the reviews


Play a scene
• Discover scenes located around you
• Navigate to places to activate them
• Activate locations: view photos, play videos and sounds,
read notes, perform tasks
• Interact with other players
• Check your progress live
• Upload photos and comments anywhere, they are
automatically linked to your location.


Best Scene in Town


What is BSiT?
• Exploration of the rules & requirements of the design of
mobile interation in the Augmented City
• An ongoing series of Design Challenges
• For creatives / new professionals from all disciplines
• Create new concepts & prototypes in teams using
7scenes hands-on
• Guided by creative sessions
• Judging criteria:
• immersion audience, use of
narrative, social- & gameplay,
synergy virtual / physical
space, media usage,
7scenes implementation


Innovation Festival Kortrijk
WHAT IF???
• The Innovation Festival will have you under the spell of
design, creativity and innovation.
• The challenge is to stimulate creativity and innovation and to
attract undeveloped talent.
• The Innovation Festival and EW32 will help 70 students to
realize a ‘real life game'.
• This is a game in which youngsters are caught by a serious
matter, using modern technology and communicationtools


About BSiT @ Kortrijk
• THINK: About sustainable innovation
• DESIGN: The most exciting mobile experience
• MAKE: Your concept into a working prototype
• PRESENT: and pilot your project
• http://www.bestsceneintown.com


Schedule
• 9.30-10.30 - Introductions
• Locative Media
• Design Strategies
• Platform 7scenes
• 10.30-12.30 - Brainstorm
• Developing of ideas
• Optimizing concept
• Deadline for delivering final concept
• 12.30-13.00 - Lunchbreak
• 13.00-15.30 - Productiontime!
• Prototyping in 7scenes (goal is a working demoversion)
• Preparing presentation
• 15.30-16.30 - Grouppresentations


Some examples


DEsign DEtect DEcode
• Winning concept of PICNIC


Frequency 1550
Educational mobile game blending mediaeval history out
in the streets of Amsterdam


More inspiring stuff
on 7scenes.com


Design Strategies


Scope
Some basic choices
• What is your target group?
• Thinking of a speciﬁc event?
• Whatʼs the experience you intend to offer?
• What date & time does it all take place?
• How many participants are involved?
• Using a speciﬁc geographical region?
• How long does it all take in total?


Storyline
How does your story unfold?
• Chronological
Story needs to be experienced in a speciﬁc strict order

• Layered
Story can have different levels of interaction for different users

• Interactive
Storyline takes form based on user interaction

• Character perspective
Experience a story through someone elseʼs eyes

• Micro narratives
Storyline is cut up into small stories that can be understood
individually


Themes
You can look for ...

• Sustainability and garbage

in the city.


Interaction
What are the participants doing?
• What happens at the different locations? How do
they relate to each other?
• What happens in the virtual and physical world?
• Do participants interact in realtime?
• Do they play in teams or individually?
• Is everyone mobile or are participants supported
by online players?
• How do participants use media?


Game mechanics
What game rules could you apply?
• Turn based interaction
• Scoring action points
• Auction or bidding / Trade
• Territory control
• Capture (the ﬂag) or eliminate (pieces)
• Catch-up
• Role playing
• Puzzle solving
• Different levels
• Team competition
• Race against time
• Remote operator driving human avatar
• Collect objects from environment
• Dark Players, actors & props


Game mechanics
What happens when these classic games
become location-based?
• Monopoly
• Twister
• Poker
• Stratego
• Cluedo
• Risk
• Trivial pursuit
• Chess
• Checkers
• Go
• Donkey Kong
• Mario Bros.
• Pong
• Space Invaders

Questions?


Introduction
7scenes-platform


Good Luck!


Schedule
• 9.30-10.30 - Introductions
• Locative Media
• Design Strategies
• Platform 7scenes
• 10.30-12.30 - Brainstorm
• Developing of ideas
• Optimizing concept
• Deadline for delivering final concept
• 12.30-13.00 - Lunchbreak
• 13.00-15.30 - Productiontime!
• Prototyping in 7scenes
• Preparing presentation
• 15.30-16.30 - Grouppresentations


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