Casual and pervasive games are difficult to merge. It would be interesting to bring the advantages of pervasive play to the mass market to which casual games are designed for. In this article, a merge of pervasive and casual is proposed through the ...

This paper is concerned with challenges and solutions related to the use of smartphones as a location-based mobile gaming (LBMG) platform. We present here a summary of our experiences from building a feature-rich story-driven LBMG for the Android ...

Interactivity in game studies is a widely-discussed but under-conceptualized concept. Most studies on game interactivity focus on social interaction between players in virtual spaces of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), while the other ...

In this paper, we discuss chances and challenges of game design for an elderly audience with a focus on the development of safe and usable exertion games for frail senior citizens. Based on an analysis of theoretical constraints, we conducted a case ...

Video games aimed at motivating players to exercises have gained popularity over the last few years, but most games are still designed for indoor scenarios. In this paper, we present a platform for a novel game concept: a mobile video game that is ...

Digital games are usually developed to provide fun for people of all ages. Although games have been mostly used for entertainment purposes, they have great potential as an intervention tool in health care. Digital games can be applied in health care ...

As children become major consumers of new media, they have been progressively integrated into the design of such technologies, following the trend of Participatory Design (PD). This paper seeks to highlight the gap that exists between the work of ...