{"product_id":"location-based-gaming-play-in-public-space-9789811344787","title":"Location-Based Gaming: Play in Public Space","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dale Leorke\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Human Geography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLocation-based games emerged in the early 2000s following the commercialisation of GPS and artistic experimentation with 'locative media' technologies. Location-based games are played in everyday public spaces using GPS and networked, mobile technologies to track their players' location. This book traces the evolution of location-based gaming, from its emergence as a marginal practice to its recent popularisation through smartphone apps like \u003ci\u003ePokémon Go\u003c\/i\u003e and its incorporation into 'smart city' strategies. Drawing on this history and an analysis of the scholarly and mainstream literature on location-based games, Leorke unpacks the key claims made about them. These claims position location-based games as alternately enriching or diminishing their players' engagement with the people and places they encounter through the game. Through rich case studies and interviews with location-based game designers and players, Leorke tests out and challenges these celebratory and pessimistic discourses. He argues for a more grounded approach to researching location-based games and their impact on public space that reflects the ideologies, lived experiences, and institutional imperatives that circulate around their design and performance. By situating location-based games within broader debates about the role of play and digitisation in public life, \u003ci\u003eLocation-Based Gaming\u003c\/i\u003e offers an original and timely account of location-based gaming and its growing prominence.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45277794402455,"sku":"9789811344787","price":3672.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789811344787.webp?v=1769289209","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/location-based-gaming-play-in-public-space-9789811344787","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}