City fireflies is a multiplayer collaborative game for public spaces.
Medialab-prado has a huge media facade and we wanted to make a game with it.
The result is city-fireflies, where we introduced a new way of interacting with public screens. The traditional ways of interacting usually are:
1. Body shape recognition.
2. Software for mobile phones.
The first one is very limited and for the second one you must tell people to download a software, what takes sometime and it is not suitable for casual game.
Our solution was to use the mobile phone in a different way: We track the light of the screen. So it is compatible with most of the devices on the market :-)
Take a look to the first video we did:
The facade is a bit hidden but next to the most touristy spots in the city. Is a very traditional area now full of foreign people (middle-high class) living there. So we focus on casual game for people walking through the street.
The fact of having something on the hand (the mobile phone) and using it as a "game device" makes the game very playful and the experience involves the whole body.
The game mechanic is simple: players need to remove the "threats" that are trying to take over the square.
There are different levels and to clean the screen one player is not enough, so as the game progress, it becomes a multiplayer collaborative game.
The story
Medialab-prado has a huge media facade and we wanted to make a game with it.
The result is city-fireflies, where we introduced a new way of interacting with public screens. The traditional ways of interacting usually are:
1. Body shape recognition.
2. Software for mobile phones.
The first one is very limited and for the second one you must tell people to download a software, what takes sometime and it is not suitable for casual game.
Our solution was to use the mobile phone in a different way: We track the light of the screen. So it is compatible with most of the devices on the market :-)
Take a look to the first video we did:
City fireflies from Sergio on Vimeo.
The facade is a bit hidden but next to the most touristy spots in the city. Is a very traditional area now full of foreign people (middle-high class) living there. So we focus on casual game for people walking through the street.
The fact of having something on the hand (the mobile phone) and using it as a "game device" makes the game very playful and the experience involves the whole body.
The game mechanic is simple: players need to remove the "threats" that are trying to take over the square.
There are different levels and to clean the screen one player is not enough, so as the game progress, it becomes a multiplayer collaborative game.
