Gaming tourism: Lessons from evaluating REXplorer, a pervasive game for tourists

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Gaming tourism: Lessons from evaluating REXplorer, a pervasive game for tourists

REXplorer is a mobile, pervasive spell-casting game designed for tourists of Regensburg, Germany. The game creates player encounters with spirits (historical figures) that are associated with significant buildings in an urban setting. A novel mobile interaction mechanism of "casting a spell&quo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Ballagas, R., Kuntze, A., Walz, Steffen P
Format:	Conference Paper
Published:	2008
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46188

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