Dale Leorke

Location-Based Gaming (eBook, PDF)

Play in Public Space

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

• First book to combine a theoretical and empirical analysis of location-based games, from their emergence in the early 2000s through to their current commercial and publicly-funded iterations.
• Provides unique insights that contribute to scholarly debates around location-based games and the broader transformation of everyday urban life by digital technologies and platforms.
• Offers a key intervention into the scholarship on location-based and location-aware technologies in public space.
• Provides an up-to-date, critical account of current developments in the field of location-based game design and location-aware devices more generally.
• Analyses implications for policymakers and designers of location-based games, providing recommendations and a framework for their future development

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789811306839
• Artikelnr.: 53083097

Autorenporträt

Dale Leorke is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"This book is primarily for those interested in research or scholarly inquiry in location based gaming. ... if you are interested in doing scholarly research in location-based gaming or some similar area, it is a good book to have." (J. M. Artz, Computing Reviews, August 15, 2019)