3. ARIS
ARIS is a user-friendly, open-source platform for
creating and playing mobile games, tours and
interactive stories. Using GPS and QR Codes, ARIS
players experience a hybrid world of virtual interactive
characters, items, and media placed in physical space.
http://arisgames.org/
http://arisgames.org/projects-and-papers/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3TH9OAuE-
c&noredirect=1
4. The Plan
To make an interactive ARIS game for a high school
teacher visit to our upriver schools and community
Base it on the idea that the bushranger Thunderbolt,
who really did have a hideout in this valley, may have
hidden treasure here.
Use the game to encourage interaction between the
high school teacher visitors and the local parents and
community members.
5. Reasons
1. FUN!
2. Encourage high teachers’ use of technology and
game based learning.
3. Suggest its use for year 6/7 transition days and
maybe for cross school Macleay Educational
Community fun day.
6. What Happened
How to make an ARIS Game
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wxKZI2nGgoEvJ
Jcb63Q5MJKa_pZErJIh17aKZnLehmQ/edit
7. It didn’t WORK.
I couldn’t get it to be sequential.
So at 9pm the night before the visit I
changed to Plan B……
8. QR codes
I changed all my narrative and clues to QR codes.
QR code Treasure Hunt. Need ipads, ipods or iphones
or equivalent with QR code reading app eg Scan
QR code generator
website eg i-nigma
Clues
9. First Clue-Setting
the scene
The bushranger Captain Thunderbolt
(Fred Ward) and his wife Mary Ann
Bugg are rumoured to have had a hut
at Stockyard Creek, not far from
Bellbrook. There are persistent
whispers about a treasure. Look for
another clue at Bellbrook School.
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12. What did I learn?
Games are Fun!
Give yourself plenty of time to make a game
Test it, test it, test it
Sometimes simple can be better than complex
13. The Future
I would still love to spend the time to get it right
I would love to make a historic village tour for Bellbrook
with historic photos popping up when you pass the real
place (the sequence problem wouldn’t matter then)
It would be great to make a game that included the
whole CBD of the town.
