Mobile and Locative Gaming Platforms (2025 ed.)
Playful Place-Making

By (author) Kyle Moore

ISBN13: 9783031769177

Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

Format: Hardback

Published: 21/12/2025

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Description
This book reinvigorates discussions of play and mobile locative gaming. This book analyses the fluid and hard-to-define process of playful place-making and asks how play operates as a form of mobility. The primary question of this book is, how might the act of playing location-based games be integral to forms of place-making? Moreover, how might this practice of place-making contribute to platformisation? The primary theoretical underpinning for this book is the sociological paradigm of mobilities – an emphasis on the movement of peoples and society. Adding to this discussion is the act of play – whereby this book considers play in location-based gaming to be a formative urban mobility that impacts and shapes how we create, inhabit, and belong across multiple contexts.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Mobile and Locative Gaming Platforms.- Chapter 2: Play as Practice.- Chapter 3: Playing With Urban Mobility.- Chapter 4: Urban Play and Playable Cities.- Chapter 5: Playable and Playful Places.- Chapter 6: Social Value in Play.- Chapter 7: The Rhythm of Locative Gaming.- Chapter 8: A Model for Locative Gaming.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Future of Locative Gaming.
  • Media studies
  • Professional & Vocational
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