Death Escape: A Case Study of Merging Ubiquitous Activities into a Hardcore Computer Game

Abstract

Ubiquitous games can be designed in several settings. This paper presents a case study of designing and developing Death Escape, a role-playing survival ubiquitous game, which is intended to trans-form user's daily-life activities to in-game player's stats in the con-cept of 'avatar grows as the user grows'. This game is expected to blend the game mechanics with user's behaviours seamlessly. The game collects data from built-in inertia sensors in mobile phones (accelerometer and gyroscope) and GPS, utilises human medical data to transform the collected data into in-game meanings realis-tically, and presents those in-game values to motivate the user to maintain healthy behaviours. This paper describes those methods of data collections and transformations as well as additional find-ings during the process of design and development. This can set an example for those who are developing ubiquitous games which are blended with the user's lifestyle.