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Nintendo DS for example comes with wireless communication and the ability to jot down notes on the touch screen and send them to other players.
 
"The Urban Tapestries software platform allows people to author their own virtual annotations of the city..."
 
Mogi is one of the first location based games played on the mobile phone and collaborating with web players.
 
My dream for a future game played in the streets would be that players can become authors themselves, creating the content of issues they consider important. With people modelling their own monsters and treasures, they could change the story of the game every day.

Like this they could highlight their own concerns of their neighbourhoods, like new parking lots being built, too many fast food restaurants invading their street or give attention to things they appreciate, such as maintained letterboxes or a friendly butcher. I am sure much better examples would come up, with contradictory opinions.

With the help of location based technology such as GPS, the tagging of places would be quite feasible. Mobile phones already know their locations, and new portable gaming consoles come with wireless communication technology.


Imagine all those people clustering on street corners, playing and forming a silent protest.

Hotspots in the city of people clustering...

...and in the world.
 
A field test

During one field test in Berlin I aked people to wear this wristband. Once in a while it would alert them of either a source of danger or a source of power (or both) in their surrounding.
On such an occasion they should note on prepared cards what those sources might be, what they might be good for or how they might fight them.

The results were very diverse, while some remained within a very real power/ danger concept, others went wild and fantastic.
 
The armband indicates danger and power sources in the surrounding by blinking.

  A field tester.
 
A realistic point of view: car 'exhaust' as danger and 'laws' to fight it.


  Or very fantastic: a ping pong table that allows travelling through time.
 
People demonstrating at Interaction Ivrea

Also at Interaction Ivrea, I asked people what they would demonstrate for in their cities. Here some of the results:

 
     
 
     
 
     
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