Designing and creating a game installation

Matthew Whitby; Peter Howell

doi:10.1007/s40869-017-0039-2

Designing and creating a game installation

Matthew Whitby, Peter Howell

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A game installation is a game that incorporates the surrounding environment, something that has mostly been explored on a city-wide scale. This paper concerns the creation of a game installation set within a room, and explores locative media, mixed reality games and the fourth wall. A framework for game installations has been designed and tested with a group of participants in a case study. The results in this paper show that the final artefact could be considered a success; recommendations for deeper development of the framework are also provided.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	85-109
Number of pages	25
Journal	The Computer Games Journal
Volume	6
Issue number	3
Early online date	17 Jul 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40869-017-0039-2
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2017

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art
installation
game
case study
framework

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