Readings and Resources

General Resources

• del.icio.us taga big urban game,big urban games
• Game Design entry on Wikipedia
• Big Games, a description by Frank Lantz
• area/code manifesto

Festivals and organizers

• Come Out and Play Festival
• Conflux Festival
• newmindspace - Metamorphosis (a guide to transforming your city)

Companies & Indiviuals

• area/code area/code
• Blast Theory
• Greg Trefry (organizer of COAP festival)
• Jane McGonigal (creator of Cruel 2B Kind and other games)

Tools

Modelling / Scoring / Tracking

• Spreadsheets
  • Google Spreadsheets
  • Excel
• Text
  • Google Docs
  • PBWiki
  • MediaWiki
  • Craigslist
• Databases
  • Google Base
  • Ning
  • MySQL

Communication (Voice)

• Jott(voice to groups)
• Pinger(voice to email)
• Spinvox(voice to sms)
• Skype
• Gizmo

Communication (Web)

• Blogs - Typepad,Vox, Blogger,Wordpress
• Mailing lists - Yahoo / Google Groups
• IM - AIM / Yahoo / Google / MSN / ICQ
• Images - Flickr, Photobucket, Fotolog
• Video - blip.tv, Revver, YouTube
• Audio - Odeo, Blogger (Audioblogger)
• Second Life

Communication (Mobile)

• Twitter (SMS, IM, Web, Mac / PC)
• Socialight (Notes, SMS, WAP, Web)
• Flagr
• Mologogo - free GPS tracking
• Textmarks (SMS shortcodes)
• Winksite - easy mobile blog / chat

GPS

• Bluetooth GPS Device Semsons & Co or Amazon
• Tomtom
• Garmin
• Magellan

Image recognition

• Semacodes
• Nextcode
• Shotcode
• Mobot

Mapping / Geocoding / Reverse Geocoding

• Google Maps
• Yahoo Maps
• Ask Maps
• Geocoder.us

Multi-user Servers

• Sushi
• MUPE (Nokia)
• Nokia's SNAP platform
• Oregano

Big Urban Games

[NAME] - [DATE] - [CREATORS] [URL]

* Mogi-Mogi (2004) - Newt Games, http://mogimogi.com
* Big Urban Game (2003) - Frank Lantz, http://www.decisionproblem.com/bug/bug2.html
* PacManhattan (2004) - Big Game's Class Spring '04, http://pacmanhattan.com
* Conqwest (2004/5) - [area/code + others], http://homepages.nyu.edu/~dc788/conqwest/
* Superstar Tokyo (2005) - [area/code + Kamida], http://superstarglobal.com
* Uncle Roy All Around You (2003) - Blast Theory, http://www.uncleroyallaroundyou.co.uk/
* Cruel 2 B Kind (2006) - Jane McGonigal, http://cruelgame.com
* Identity (2006) - [area/code + Kamida], http://identitygame.com