Post on 08-May-2015
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Technical/Tangible/Social
Elizabeth Lane LawleyRIT Lab for Social Computing
LITA National ForumOctober 2009
“One day we will look back with embarrassment on this era when all of our virtual experiences were trapped behind a screen. This advance will have great implications for the role of games within society, and the wider possibilities of tangible game experiences could make the word ‘game’ insufficient to describe what we are doing.”
- Game design legend Masaya Matsuura
“One day we will look back with embarrassment on this era when all of our virtual experiences were trapped behind a screen. This advance will have great implications for the role of games within society, and the wider possibilities of tangible game experiences could make the word ‘game’ insufficient to describe what we are doing.”
- Game design legend Masaya Matsuura
(pioneered the rhythm-based music genre)
“One day we will look back with embarrassment on this era when all of our virtual experiences were trapped behind a screen. This advance will have great implications for the role of computing within society, and the wider possibilities of tangible computing experiences could make the word ‘computing’ insufficient to describe what we are doing.”
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Picture the Impossible:A technical, tangible, social game
Created bythe RIT Lab for Social Computing
andthe Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
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Let’s get some programmers together and put on a game!
What? Me worry?
Just remember:technical, tangible, social!
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Arts and Crafts
Local Food & Drink
Rochester Firsts
Performing Arts
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Famous Figures
Social Justice
Celebration!
September-October 2009
D&C RIT
Plan A: Content & Marketing
Plan A: Game Design & Technology
Plan B:• Drupal-based website• Server space• Newspaper puzzles• News coverage
Plan B:• Flash games• Game-specific database• Local puzzles• Fundraising• Gala Party
Can you picture an entire community coming together to play a game? A game that helps you learn about your city? A game that encourages you to support local charities?
It may sound impossible, but we don’t think it is. And we’re asking you to join us in picturing the impossible…
Location Games
Challenges
• Huge investment (time, money, energy)• Need early connections with local groups• Selection of charities needs to be balanced,
and charities need to be fully on-board• Partnerships between organizations with
different cultures are really hard• Selling sponsorship and advertising in
something so new is also really hard
Despite that…..
2000+Players
150Photosynths
104Recipes
150“First” Photos
~300SCVNGRplayers/week
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GiveSocialize
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