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The map as playground : location-based games as cartographical practices
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Lammes, Sybille (2011) The map as playground : location-based games as cartographical practices. In: CFP: THINK DESIGN PLAY – 5TH INTERNATIONAL DIGRA CONFERENCE, 14-17 SEPTEMBER, 2011 – UTRECHT, Utrecht, Netherlands, 14-17 Sep 2011. Published in: Think, Design, Play, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of DIGRA pp. 1-10.
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Abstract
In this paper I will examine how maps in location-based mobile games are used assurfaces on which players can inscribe their whereabouts and other local information while being on the move. I will look at three different location-based games to whichmaps are central as a playing surface : RunZombieRun, Paranormal Activity Sanctuary and Own This World. My main argument will be that such cartographical location-basedgames foreground the fluidity of mapping and emphasise the performative aspects of playing with maps. As such they are not representations used by players for consultation, but as Latourian mediators (Latour 1990, 1993, 2004) they produce new social spaces(Lefebvre 1991). It therefore does not suffice to conceive maps in such games as“mimetic interfaces” (Juul 2009). Instead they should be approached as what I will callnavigational interfaces. To understand them as such I will combine perspectives fromgame-studies with understandings of maps as technological and spatial practices asdeveloped in Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Human Geography
Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Think, Design, Play, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of DIGRA | ||||
Official Date: | September 2011 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-10 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||
Title of Event: | CFP: THINK DESIGN PLAY – 5TH INTERNATIONAL DIGRA CONFERENCE, 14-17 SEPTEMBER, 2011 – UTRECHT | ||||
Type of Event: | Conference | ||||
Location of Event: | Utrecht, Netherlands | ||||
Date(s) of Event: | 14-17 Sep 2011 | ||||
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