Analysis and Comparison of Gaming in Virtual and Real world

Shaveta Bhatia¹

1. Faculty of Computer Applications, MRIIRS, Faridabad, India.

Correspondence should be addressed to: shaveta.fca@mriu.edu.in.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Isroset-Journal
Vol.4 , Issue.2 , pp.8-12, Feb-2018

CrossRef-DOI:   https://doi.org/10.26438/ijsrms/v4i2.812

Online published on Feb 28, 2018

Copyright © Shaveta Bhatia . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

View this paper at   Google Scholar | DPI Digital Library

XML View     PDF Download

How to Cite this Paper

764 Views    328 Downloads    172 Downloads

Abstract :
Today Location based Services are one of the largest application areas where end user is willing to pay for services. Also, Location based market is expected to grow dramatically as most Mobile phones sold now are capable of running Location based games which are major source of Interest for User. User shows an excitement to play, whether he is playing in a real world or he is playing in a Virtual world just like a real one. Location based games are the types of games that explore the unique features of GPS enabled mobile devices. Location based Games reached their peak level with the combining technologies such as Global positioning devices, Bluetooth and Wireless Networks. Location based mobile games are categorized as Learning Games, Adventures Games, Strategy Games, Searching games ,Sports games and Educational Games. A Game world is notionally superimposed into city surface where the Games narratives are influenced by the player’s movements in the city. Maps represent the real opponents and Virtual objects from the game Imaginary world. Today most of the games are emphasizing on covering various public spaces and extend the gameplay in physical environment. This paper analyses the technologies used Mobile Gaming and a platform that provides access to spatial features such as building outlines, streets and real time positions of Players on the map. Further, the paper shows the implementation of few Location based Games that compares the Location in real world and actual world.

Key-Words / Index Term :
OSM, GSM, GPS, Location based Mobile Games, Geographical Information System

References :
[1] Jorg Lonthoff and Erich Ortner et al,” Mobile Location-Based Gaming as Driver for Location-Based Services (LBS) – Exemplified by Mobile Hunters”, Informatics 31 (2007) pp. 183–190.
[2] Palle Klante et al,“ Firstyear Students’ Paper Chase a Mobile Location Aware multimedia Game”, MM’04, October 1016,2004, New York, New York,USA.ACM 1581138938/04/0010.
[3] Sebastian Matyas,” Designing Location-based Mobile Games with a Purpose–Collecting Geospatial Data with CityExplorer”, Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology 2008,Yokohama,Japan,copyright 2008 ACM 978.1.60558.393.8/08/12.
[4] O.Sotamma, “All the worlds a Botfighter stage: Notes on Location based Multi-user Gaming” In CGDC Conference Proceedings, pages 35-45, 2002.
[5] B.Schlatter and A.Hurd,”Geocaching: 21at Century Hide and Seek”, Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 76(7), pp 28-32, 2005.
[6] J.Falk,p.Ljungstrand,S.Bjork et al,,”Proximity triggered interaction in a multiplayer game”, In CHI’01 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems,pp 119-120,ACM 2001,ISBN 1581133405.
[7] O.Rashid et al, “Extending cyberspace: Location based games using Cellular Phones”, Computers in Entertainment, Vol 4, issue 10, 2006, ISSN 1544-3574.
[8] S.Bittner et al, “Exploring physical check-ins for Location based services”, Proceedings of 12th International Conference adjunct papers on Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 395-396, 2010.
[9] M.R Ebling et al,”Gaming and Augmented Reality come to Location based Services”,IEEE Pervasive Computing,Vol 9,Issue 1,pp 5-6,2010.
[10] R. Webb et al,” Recreational Geocaching: the South-East Queensland Experience”, In a Spatial Odyssey, Australian Surveyors Congress, 2011
[11] Stephan Winter,” Location based Mobile Games for Spatial Knowledge Acquisition”, Conference on Spatial Information Theory, USA, Sep 12-16, 2011.
[12] Ritcher et al, ”Citizens as database:Concious Ubiquity in data Collection”,in:PFoser,D.et al(Eds.),Symposium and Spatial and temporal databases(SSTD),Lecture Notes in computer Science,Springer,Berlin,2011,pp 445-448.
[13] Joao et al, ”A Mobile Location based Game Framework”, Journal of Computational Information Systems, Vol 1,Issue 2,2005.
[14] Rainer Dreyer,”A Thesis on Real world Spatial Features in Location based Mobile Games”, University of Cape Town, Department of Computer Science, Oct 31, 2011.
[15] Ather, “Spatial Practice and representation of space as narrative element in Location based Games”, Journal of Media Geography, spring 2010.
[16] Zombie Earth, “Location based Mobile RPG Game”, available at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nitwitstudios/zombie-earth-location-based- mobile-rpg-game, retrieved on 5 Oct 2012.
[17] Second Life, “Second Life Official site-Virtual World, Avtaars”, available at http://secondlife.com/ retrieved on 1 October,2012.