Nippon Telegraph

Chasing the Fugitive on Campus: Designing a Location-based Game for Collaborative Play

The Fugitive functions as a collaborative, location-based mobile game designed to explore how real-time tracking and spatial awareness influence team dynamics within a university campus environment.

• Location-based games thrive on collaborative strategy, but their success is heavily dependent on the reliability of underlying infrastructure like WiFi and GPS.
• Technical instability, specifically network drops and location inaccuracies, is the primary cause of user frustration in pervasive gaming environments.
• Players are willing to overlook minor technical friction if the game's social and strategic elements are sufficiently engaging.