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Triangulate
- an outdoor mobile game concept

May-April, 2019
The pervasive outdoor game explores how motivation for outdoor exercise might be generated by a location-based multiplayer pervasive game for mobile platforms. The main objective of the player in the game is to triangulate other players inside a predefined game area by dropping pins. Being a pervasive game, the player moves in the real world and takes action in the virtual one.
Methods/Tools
Design Research
Conceptualization
Playtesting
Adobe XD
Adobe Premiere Pro
My Role: Conceptualization, User Testing
Design Process
Based on the initial game idea, the concept has been developed in several iterations and by using simple prototyping techniques like paper, bodystorming and later an improvised prototype that used google maps and messenger.

This project demonstrated to start testing and iterating with simple prototyping technique in the beginning to develop the basic design concept instead of investing too much time into a real-coded prototype.
Design Process
Playtesting showed that for this fast-paced, competitive physical game play intrinsic motivation was largely triggered by the core game mechanics that satisfied basic psychological and social needs.

The testing also revealed that the initial lack of socializing and relatedness between players affected motivation and introducing a motivational affordance for communication was required to enhance player motivation.
Findings