Location-Based Gaming: Play in Public Space

By Dale Leorke

Book Overview

First book to combine a theoretical and empirical analysis of location-based games, from their emergence in the early 2000s through to their current commercial and publicly-funded iterations.
Provides unique insights that contribute to scholarly debates around location-based games and the broader transformation of everyday urban life by digital technologies and platforms.
Offers a key intervention into the scholarship on location-based and location-aware technologies in public space.
Provides an up-to-date, critical account of current developments in the field of location-based game design and location-aware devices more generally.
Analyses implications for policymakers and designers of location-based games, providing recommendations and a framework for their future development

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811344787
• ISBN13: 9789811344787
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"