These slides are from the Physical Digital Games Seminar, Tampere 2013. Time-wARpXplorer: creating a playful experience in an urban time warp In the paper, we present a novel pervasive mobile game named Time-wARpXplorer (TARX) that comprises of a mobile client and an online authoring tool. The game was created to encourage visitors and locals to explore the city of Lancaster by travelling back in time and space to discover their immediate and distant surroundings. In particular, TARX combines exploration of past and present day by allowing players to warp back in time based on the players physical location. This time travel is linked to present day through the implementation of Foursquare’s checkin platform to further raise awareness of historic sites. The paper focuses on the design considerations and implementation of the novel mobile client (Time-wARpMachine) and the requirement these place on the online authoring tool (Xplorer Authoring Tool).

1. Mark Lochrie, Klen Copic Pucihar, Adrian Gradinar and Paul Coulton
creating a playful
experience in an urban time warp
@marklochrie @_klen_ @adriangradinar @mysticmobile
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2. “When a body of mass and volume moves with a velocity, then many changes
take place in is physical appearance. When the body reaches the speed of light
mass becomes infinite and time factor disappears. In liegeman’s terms, no time
passes covering millions of light years in no time as the time for movement has
disappeared. It is in this phase when the body is said to be moving in a time-
warp speed”.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-21/albert-einstein-sticks-out-his-tongue-at-photographers/3742064
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3. http://www.wts.edu/resources/westminster_center_for_theolog/become_writerhtml/planning_your_project/time_management.html
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4. http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=200793_164617
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6. IN THE NOW!
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7. http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennwadsworth/5022882026/in/gallery-enochprattlibrary-72157630669063484/
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10. Mark Lochrie, Klen Copic Pucihar, Adrian Gradinar and Paul Coulton
discussion
@marklochrie
@_klen_
@adriangradinar
@mysticmobile
Friday, 31 May 13