Markus Montola

TL;DR: Pervasive games as discussed by the authors is a broad overview of pervasive games that take games away from the computer screen and back to the three-dimensional world, where games can be designed to be played in public spaces like shopping malls, conferences, museums and other non-traditional game venues.

TL;DR: How applications other than games could benefit from achievement systems, and how users perceive this additional content in a service is explored, to suggest that there is some potential in achievement systems outside the game domain.

TL;DR: The paradigm of pervasive mixed-reality game research, analyzing how these games have been produced and studied, and how this type of research could better validate the findings that have to do with play experiences and game design is looked into.

TL;DR: This article analyzes two game practices, Nordic style live action role-playing (larp) and alternate reality games (ARG), that instead use reality as their main game resource and presents two example games that do the same with the support of technology.

TL;DR: In this paper, the first media data from a plurality of persons is used to identify the persons who were present at the occurrence of a first event, and storing information related to the first event in association with information identifying those persons determined to be present during the event.