"Location, Location, Location: Location-based Games that Work... and Don't Work." Museums are pretty serious about play. Some museums have created some of the best live-action education games around. Are educators taking full advantage of the technical resources that museums have to offer? Are they collaborating with museums and helping to create meaningful content for their students? What does K-12 have to learn from museums and what can museums do to help the K-12 experience? Join this dialog and learn more about what unusual and imaginative things institutions big and small are doing to engage people in learning, mobile storytelling, and play.

1. Location Location Location…
Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com

2. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
First: 30 seconds... what is a "location-based game" exactly?

3. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
Maybe you thought of MOBILE, GPS
location-based games

4. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
Or maybe more analog location-based
games

5. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
Or perhaps you thought of games with some
technology, built by spaces… for their spaces.

6. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
One thing in common:

7. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
They’re hard to build and seldom make money.
OH... and location.

8. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
A Brief History of Location-Based Games*
*Thanks to tap lab for the graphic!

9. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com

10. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
So.... let's play

11. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com

12. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
15 seconds to Nevermind

13. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
Quick Entry! Not so quick...

14. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
In the real world, you're not the big deal.
People are.
Target for your video game
Target for your location game

15. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
Location Based games are PUBLIC
Your Players

16. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
Using Group Dynamics, Not so much..

17. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
Interacting with my LAT/LONG but not actually my location= new name??

18. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com

19. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
And by the way...

20. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
SO… Why do we care about location
games?

21. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
Because we need to make games in the real
world if we want to change the real world

22. Kellian Adams Pletcher
@GreenDoorLabs
www.Edventurebuilder.com
Soapbox: it’s worth it

23. Kellian Adams Pletcher
Mastermind
Green Door Labs
www.Greendoorlabs.com
www.edventurebuilder.com
@greendoorlabs
kellian@greendoorlabs.com