MobileSeriousGamesRoundupBoston – May 17, 2011Alan Au

1st Annual

Almost done!

Biomedical informatics guyGame industry journalist

Not a fashion/art directorNot a mobile games expert (yet!)

http://twitter.com/#!/Alan_Au

Games

I play games …

… when I have time.

http://cowclicktivism.org/

Mobile

146.42 millionhttp://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/historical_data/pdf/consolidated_sales_e1103.pdf

108.62 millionhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IPhone_sales_per_quarter_simple.svg

74.6 millionhttp://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1306513 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1543014

*and growing rapidly

Serious Mobile

One Bus Away

http://onebusaway.org/

http://opendatakit.org/

Open Data Kit

Mobile Games

Technology convergence

1980 1989 2004

1997 2003

2008

160 x 144 pixels

640x960 pixels

Serious Games

Oregon Trail(1981)

* The game dates back to 1971

http://www.citypages.com/2011-01-19/news/oregon-trail-how-three-minnesotans-forged-its-path/

Oregon Trail(1996)

Oregon Trail(2008)

http://www.gameloft.com/mobile/the-oregon-trail/

Oregon Trail(2010)

http://apps.facebook.com/theoregontrail/

http://www.moonbasealphagame.com/

Moonbase Alpha

Serious + Mobile?

Does this make sense?

?

LearningFood & DietUn-Smoking

General HealthLifestyle

Location-basedFitness & Exercise

Learning

Jetset

http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/game.aspx?game=jetset

http://www.silverbackers.org/

Silverbackers

Freedom

http://www.freedomhivaids.in/FreedomHivAids.htm

Mobile = good for ICTD

MILLEE (literacy)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mattkam/lab/millee.html

?… trouble with academic

games

eSmart

*this is not the actual game

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/03/21/mcdonalds_ds_training/

http://www.topdocgame.com/

Top Doc

Brain Age

http://brainage.com/launch/index.jsp

31

… accidentally serious?

… $$$-driven knockoffs

You are what you eat.You are what you eat.

MindlessEating

Challenge

http://mindlesseating.org/

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~agrimes/docs/grimes_ubicomp10.pdf

OrderUP!

*not to be confused with the “Order Up!” Wii game

PickChow!

*not mobile (yet)

http://www.zisboombah.com/pickchow#

Thank you for not smokingThank you for not smoking.

http://www.grap.ca/site/francais/html/nicot_documents.htmhttp://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nicot/id416698100?mt=8

Smoking cessation

NICOT

My StopSmokingCoach

http://www.ubi.com/US/Games/Info.aspx?pId=7150

http://lit2quit.wordpress.com/

Lit

Health games?

http://www.allergiesattack.com/

AllergiesAttack

Er, it’s health-themed …

http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/game.aspx?game=colorfall

Colorfall

Insurer-funded games

http://www.ecu.edu/biofeedback/http://www.popcap.com/games/iphone/peggle

Peggle

… accidentally serious!

45

iTunesApp Store

How do we categorize these?

Lifestyle?

http://www.textjab.us/

Textjab

Socially-driven games

http://myhappyplanet.iplay.com/

My HappyPlanet

Location, location, location!

Foursquare

Uh … is this a game?

https://foursquare.com/

Akoha

http://akoha.com/

SCVNGR

http://www.scvngr.com/

Move around!

Goldwalker

http://humanagames.com/#/solutions/mobilegames/

http://impulsivepillowpilates.blogspot.com/

ImpulsivePillowPilates

PicoPoke

http://gambit.mit.edu/loadgame/picopoke.php

http://qubop.com/apps

Tapcloud

My WeightLoss Coach

http://myweightlosscoachgame.us.ubi.com/

http://ils.intel-research.net/ubifit

UbiFit

Zamzee

http://www.hopelab.org/innovative-solutions/zamzee/

Pokéwalker

http://www.pokemongoldsilver.com/us/#/features/pokewalker/

… can be spoofed

LearningFood & DietUn-Smoking

General HealthLifestyle

Location-basedFitness & Exercise

• Does mobile make sense?• How do we categorize these?• Some are accidentally serious• What about academic projects?• Some aren’t even really games• Lots of games! (I bet I missed some)

Click a cow?What now?

Ben SawyerBeth Bryant

University of Washington(BHI, ISIS, HCDE, Change, dub)

Thank you!