Software Architecture for Location-Based Games Designed for Social Interaction in Public Space

Xavier Fonseca; Stephan Lukosch; Frances Brazier

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15325-9_16

Software Architecture for Location-Based Games Designed for Social Interaction in Public Space

Xavier Fonseca^*, Stephan Lukosch, Frances Brazier

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Location-based games (LBGs) are becoming increasingly more popular, especially those that focus on social interaction in public space. They have been successful to various extents at bringing players together to interact in public space; yet there is lack of knowledge and consensus on how to design these games from a technical perspective. This paper proposes a software architecture that stems from a cross-game analysis of representative games of this genre, in which 6 core architectural components are identified: Augmentation, Navigation, Interaction, State Progression, Participation, and Administration. These components support the game experience of players by enabling orientation and navigation of the players’ own physical environment, their interaction with the game and other people, the traditional game-like experience, management of the entire game ecosystem, and the ability to allow players to fuel game play. An LBG prototype, Secrets of the South, is presented as proof of concept for this software architecture and its key components. This prototype shows that the identified components are pivotal to the gameplay of LBGs for natural interactions in public space and shows how practitioners can be guided in their preparation whilst maintaining their freedom to technically implement this architecture according to the given structure.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Serious Games - Joint International Conference, JCSG 2022, Proceedings
Editors	Heinrich Söbke, Pia Spangenberger, Philipp Müller, Stefan Göbel
Publisher	Springer
Pages	213-228
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9783031153242
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15325-9_16
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	8th Joint International Conference on Serious Games, JCSG 2022 - Weimar, Germany Duration: 22 Sept 2022 → 23 Sept 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13476 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	8th Joint International Conference on Serious Games, JCSG 2022
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Weimar
Period	22/09/22 → 23/09/22

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

Location-based games
Public space
Social interaction
Software architecture

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Fonseca, X., Lukosch, S., & Brazier, F. (2022). Software Architecture for Location-Based Games Designed for Social Interaction in Public Space. In H. Söbke, P. Spangenberger, P. Müller, & S. Göbel (Eds.), Serious Games - Joint International Conference, JCSG 2022, Proceedings (pp. 213-228). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13476 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15325-9_16

Fonseca, Xavier ; Lukosch, Stephan ; Brazier, Frances. / Software Architecture for Location-Based Games Designed for Social Interaction in Public Space. Serious Games - Joint International Conference, JCSG 2022, Proceedings. editor / Heinrich Söbke ; Pia Spangenberger ; Philipp Müller ; Stefan Göbel. Springer, 2022. pp. 213-228 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Fonseca, X, Lukosch, S & Brazier, F 2022, Software Architecture for Location-Based Games Designed for Social Interaction in Public Space. in H Söbke, P Spangenberger, P Müller & S Göbel (eds), Serious Games - Joint International Conference, JCSG 2022, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13476 LNCS, Springer, pp. 213-228, 8th Joint International Conference on Serious Games, JCSG 2022, Weimar, Germany, 22/09/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15325-9_16

Software Architecture for Location-Based Games Designed for Social Interaction in Public Space. / Fonseca, Xavier; Lukosch, Stephan; Brazier, Frances.
Serious Games - Joint International Conference, JCSG 2022, Proceedings. ed. / Heinrich Söbke; Pia Spangenberger; Philipp Müller; Stefan Göbel. Springer, 2022. p. 213-228 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13476 LNCS).

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Fonseca X, Lukosch S, Brazier F. Software Architecture for Location-Based Games Designed for Social Interaction in Public Space. In Söbke H, Spangenberger P, Müller P, Göbel S, editors, Serious Games - Joint International Conference, JCSG 2022, Proceedings. Springer. 2022. p. 213-228. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-15325-9_16

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