IMGA are now looking specifically for location-based games!

Call for Mobile Games using GPS or other localization techniques

Send your innovative mobile games to www.imgawards.com, before 18 January 2010.

November 13. The International Mobile Gaming Awards, the… Continue

Dear all,

I am co-organising a workshop on mobile gaming in Northern Germany and thought you might potentially be interested, as publications in English language are permitted and the date is just before Ubicomp.

Please find details of this call and a PDF for printing at http://sam.iai.uni-bonn.de/mobile-gaming/index.en.html

The workshop is hosted as part of the 39. Annual Meeting of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik, a… Continue

This is a first list of pervasive, location-based, proximity, and alternate reality games. By no means complete... please comment the post with suggestions on games to add.

• Alchemist, The by IPerG / Interactive Institute, EU (2004-2007) - a game that is shipped together with tools to stage and modify the game, or to create new games.


• Alien Revolt [LBS] by M1ND, Brazil (2005-2

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Here's my suggestion:

Pervasive Game: a digital game that blends with the player's everyday life.

Location-based Game: a digital game that uses the player's physical location as part of the gameplay.

Proximity Game: a digital game that uses the player's proximity to other players or objects as part of the gameplay.

Alternate Reality Games: a digital game that creates an illusion of being part of the player's reality [hmmm...].

Do you a… Continue