Now everything looks like a game : Mobile phones and location-based games.

摘要

This paper explores how we may transform peoples’ perceivedudaccess to cultural participation by exploiting the possibleudrelationships between place, play and mobile devices. It presents SCOOT; a location-based game in order to investigate how aspects of game-play can be employed to evoke at once playful and culturally meaningful experiences of place. In particular this paper is concerned with how the portable, communicative and social affordances of mobile phones are integral to making a “now everything looks like a game” experience.