Design Principles for Content Creation in Location-based Games

Location-based games have been around since 2000 across various fields, including education, health, and entertainment. The main challenge facing such is content generation. In contrast to normal games, in location-based inherently dependent on location. biggest the availability of globally. Other challenges include player engagement, enjoyable interactions with real-world environment, safety, customizability based performance preference. While crowdsourcing has often adopted as a tool for creation, this approach requires quality control. Designing high-quality detailed guidelines. paper, we introduce design principles creation that can survive long periods time. These are derived from ten years experience running our in-house orienteering treasure-hunt game called O-Mopsi , which represents case study paper. allows players visit pre-defined locations. expected be generalizable other well sightseeing tours more generally.