Location-Based Gaming : Play in Public Space

Name: Location-Based Gaming
Brand: Springer Verlag, Singapore
SKU: 9789811344787
Price: 8100 KES
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ISBN: 9789811344787

Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2019 ed.

by Dale Leorke

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 9811344787

ISBN-13 9789811344787

Edition Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2019 ed.

Publisher Springer Verlag, Singapore

Imprint Springer Verlag, Singapore

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 1st, 2019

Print length 266 Pages

Product Classification: Society and culture: general Media studies Urban communities / city life Society & culture: general Media studies Urban communities Sociology Human geography Digital lifestyle Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides Games development & programming Games development and programming

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Location-based games emerged in the early 2000s following the commercialisation of GPS and artistic experimentation with ''locative media'' technologies. Location-based games are played in everyday public spaces using GPS and networked, mobile technologies to track their players'' location. This book traces the evolution of location-based gaming, from its emergence as a marginal practice to its recent popularisation through smartphone apps like Pokémon Go and its incorporation into ''smart city'' strategies.

Drawing on this history and an analysis of the scholarly and mainstream literature on location-based games, Leorke unpacks the key claims made about them. These claims position location-based games as alternately enriching or diminishing their players'' engagement with the people and places they encounter through the game. Through rich case studies and interviews with location-based game designers and players, Leorke tests out and challenges these celebratory and pessimistic discourses. He argues for a more grounded approach to researching location-based games and their impact on public space that reflects the ideologies, lived experiences, and institutional imperatives that circulate around their design and performance.

By situating location-based games within broader debates about the role of play and digitisation in public life, Location-Based Gaming offers an original and timely account of location-based gaming and its growing prominence.

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