Everything About Walking Games I'm Willing to Share
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A Short Presentation about the opportunity and current landscape for games about walking given at Out & About III: Mobile Serious Games, a Games for Health Pre-Conference held on June 12, 2012.
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- 1. Everything About Walking Games Tell You That I’m Willing to Ben Sawyer Digitalmill, bsawyer@dmill.com @bensawyer Inc. June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
- 2. What I’m Playing June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
- 3. My Interest... • I like walking (grew up in NYC) • Developed a game about walking • Hosted several sessions about walking games • Working with sensor game startups (Elbrys, IntenseLife) • Games for Everyone June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
- 4. HILLS OF GOLD Truly Unique Portable Game... Behavior Change...
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- 7. The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history. In 2008, for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population will be living in towns and cities. By 2030 this number will swell to almost 5 billion, with urban growth concentrated in Africa and Asia. June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
- 8. Banked Iterative Real-Time EA Active 2 PokeWalker GoldWalker Vitality Sensor
- 9. Location Based • Where I am vs. how am I moving • E.g. • Only 20% of their users got out and about! • Liability? Inducement? • How do we create bonus for walking vs. penalty for not?
- 10. Games... June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
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- 12. June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
- 13. Accelerometers... • Steps vs. Caloric Expenditure • Dozens of step counters in app store • Bits of code... • MotionX • University of Houston June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
- 14. Freemov Walking Jog/Run Stairs Jumping Activity Stillness! e June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
- 15. Accelerometers • Standalone • All phones • Background and not • Wireless to phone • Wireless to Net Direct • COST/BOM – Drive down, down, down... June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
- 16. Designing for Walking • Encountered vs. Deliberate – Intensity • Patterns... – Contiguous vs. Stop & Start – Time of day, time of week • What is the interruption? – What else is active? (camera, microphone, heart-rateGPS) June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
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- 20. Human Joysticks
- 21. Audio Games... • Largest group of visually impaired people are people who must move without distraction • Opportunity to hook pedometers/ accelerometers to audio systems is underutilized – BlastBay Toolkit – Siri? – Papa Sangre June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
- 22. It’s Early!!!
- 23. Thank You! Ben Sawyer bsawyer@dmill.com Digitalmill, @bensawyer Inc. June 12-14, 2013 November 5-6, 2012 Boston, MA www.gamesforhealtheurope.org June 2012 Games for Health Conference www.gamesforhealth.org
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