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Playing on a line: location-based games for linear trips

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Peter Kiefer,

Sebastian Matyas,

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ACE '07: Proceedings of the international conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1255047.1255109

Published: 13 June 2007 Publication History

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Most location-based games are designed for players who move freely around a geographic game board such as a city centre or acampus. By contrast, we discuss design issues for location-based games played when traveling from A to B on a predefined route, e.g. when following a biking trail along a river. We present the results of a simulation study that compares different alternatives of adopting a two-dimensional location-based game to a linear feature. As our running example for a linear location-based game, we use a geographic version of the board game Alak, the most popular linear game from the family of Go games.

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Chen JChang HShen CWang TChang WShih TXu CLau RHuang Y(2009)Developing the immersive learning environment by integrating the interactive video and ubiquitous technologiesProceedings of the first ACM international workshop on Multimedia technologies for distance learning10.1145/1631111.1631119(39-48)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2009
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DOI:10.1145/1255047

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Chen JChang HShen CWang TChang WShih TXu CLau RHuang Y(2009)Developing the immersive learning environment by integrating the interactive video and ubiquitous technologiesProceedings of the first ACM international workshop on Multimedia technologies for distance learning10.1145/1631111.1631119(39-48)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1631111.1631119
Yang MChen JWang TChao LShih TEl Saddik ACandan KCheng IBasu ALi QLau RWah BLeung HZhang C(2009)To construct the outdoor experience game-based learning system by integrating ubiquitous technologiesProceedings of the 2009 workshop on Ambient media computing10.1145/1631005.1631022(77-82)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1631005.1631022

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