Fea tures and Checklists to Assist in Pervasive Mobile Game Development
Luis Valente, Bruno Feijó, Julio César Sampaio do Prado Leite · 2013
Pervasive games are a recent form of entertainment that aims at bringing the game experience out of a game device. However, this area still lacks consensus on definitions and formalisms as researchers explore pervasive games from several viewpoints, from game studies to context- aware computing. Practical guidelines for mobile game developers are even scarcer. Firstly, this paper critically analyses the definitions of pervasive games found in the literature. Secondly, it proposes a set of pervasive features and checklists that can help both the task of classifying a preexisting mobile game and the task of designing a new mobile pervasive game. This paper ends with an example of applying checklists and features in a pervasive mobile game that we have developed. Keywords—pervasive mobile games, pervasive features, context-aware games, pervasive computing, development process