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Pervasive games are a radically new game form that extends gaming experiences out into the physical world. To achieve a high quality interactive experience for these games, new technologies to support the creation of new compelling forms of content will be explored by this consortium. Brief Intro Four game types are currently being investigated under IPerG: Crossmedia Games - bridging the gap between different media channels and game spaces Socially Adaptable Games - exploring how pervasive games can fit into (and transform) social environments Enhanced Reality Live Role-Playing - enhanced experiences through technology City As Theatre - artistic games that take place online and on the streets.

Insectopia is a new kind of cell phone game where the real world spills into the game world. Players roam the cityscape searching for and catching a multitude of different insects. Each insects in the game world is generated by using the available bluetooth devices available in the player's vincinity. By catching insects and trading them with other players, players build their own collection bigger and better. The current status of the game is displayed on various highscore lists both in the phones and online.

collecting and finding stuff seems to be a recurent pattern in game-design; both in video games but also in pervasive games in which collection has been used to make people wander around in the physical environment (promising potential virtues like… meeting new people or discovering new places; unfortunately this failed but that’s another story). The reason why I am blogging this is that I am always wondering about how to go beyond collecting (I’m tired of collective treasure hunts in location-based games), there must be a more original paradigm.

A revolutionary multi-player, multi-site game and arts space to be played across all five cities. Players use their own bodies to send balls of projected light across the playing space, aiming for goals representing the other cities. Entirely interactive, it's a competition to see which city has the least light balls in their square when the time runs out. Designed to be aesthetically beautiful and great fun to play and watch, games are a minute long and run throughout the night. Just turn up and play, or get your team together in advance...

Plundr is a location-based game of piracy and trading on the high seas created by area/code. Start out as a bilge-spewing land-lubber in a leaky tub, search the ocean for unsuspecting ships to pillage, upgrade your ship, and amass a fortune in black market goods.

You will need the Loki location-sensing browser plugin to play this game. Once you have installed Loki, click here to install the plundr channel.

Location-based mobile phone games