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Tidy city: a location-based game supported by in-situ and web-based authoring tools to enable user-created content

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Richard Wetzel,

Lisa Blum,

Leif OppermannAuthors Info & Claims

FDG '12: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

Pages 238 - 241

https://doi.org/10.1145/2282338.2282385

Published: 29 May 2012 Publication History

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This paper presents the location-based game Tidy City and the accompanying authoring tools that enable users to create new scavenger hunt like missions. In the game the players need to physically explore their city by interpreting clues to find the correct target destination. The in-situ authoring tool Tidy City Scout enables designers to likewise walk around the city and collecting notes, images and GPS data for potential riddles. The riddles are finalized in a web-based authoring tool and then published to all players of the game. The game and its tools are freely accessible for non-commercial purposes at http://totem.fit.fraunhofer.de/tidycity.

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Tidy city: a location-based game supported by in-situ and web-based authoring tools to enable user-created content
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Graphics systems and interfaces
      1. Virtual reality
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Mixed / augmented reality
      2. Virtual reality

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FDG '12: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

May 2012

332 pages

ISBN:9781450313339

DOI:10.1145/2282338

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Magy Seif El-Nasr
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