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Backseat Playgrounds: Pervasive Storytelling in Vast Location Based Games

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We have implemented a conceptual software framework and a story-based game that facilitates generation of rich and vivid narratives in vast geographical areas. An important design challenge in the emergent research area of pervasive gaming is to provide believable environments where game content is matched to the landscape in an evocative and persuasive way. More specificly, our game is designed to generate such an environment tailored to a journey as experienced from the backseat of a car. Therefore, it continuously references common geographical objects, such as houses, forests and churches, in the vicinity within the story; it provides a sequential narrative that fit with the drive; it works over vast areas, and it is possible to interact with the game while looking out of the windows.

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  1. Interactive Institute, P O Box 24 081, SE 104 50, Stockholm, Sweden

    John Bichard, Liselott Brunnberg, Anton Gustafsson & Oskar Juhlin

  2. Microsoft Research Cambridge UK, Roger Needham Building , 7 J J Thomson Ave, Cambridge, CB3 0FB, UK

    Marco Combetto

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  1. Microsoft Research Cambridge, Socio-Digital Systems, 7 J.J: Thomson Ave, CB3 OFB, Cambridge, UK

    Richard Harper

  2. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Den Dolech 2, 5600MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Matthias Rauterberg

  3. Microsoft Research Cambridge UK, Roger Needham Building , 7 J J Thomson Ave, CB3 0FB, Cambridge, UK

    Marco Combetto

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Bichard, J., Brunnberg, L., Combetto, M., Gustafsson, A., Juhlin, O. (2006). Backseat Playgrounds: Pervasive Storytelling in Vast Location Based Games. In: Harper, R., Rauterberg, M., Combetto, M. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006. ICEC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4161. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11872320_14

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