The Lectio Precursoria of my work in Hypercontextualized Games, which took place in Sept 4, 2012 in Joensuu, Finland. Dissertation available: http://tinyurl.com/8soebxg or http://epublications.uef.fi/pub/urn_isbn_978-952-61-0865-0/urn_isbn_978-952-61-0865-0.pdf

1. Hypercontextualized Games
Lectio Praecursoria by Carolina Islas

2. This thesis is about design
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3. Digital Games
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4. Why shall we be interested on the topic
of digital games?
• Games are powerful
• Games are relevant for Academia and Industry
• Games have a direct impact in our today and
our future.

5. Dissertation focus....
is on the design of digital games games that are
locally designed with a specific objective.
1. The game should involve elements taken from the player’s
reality (context) that are bound to a specific location
2. The game should promote the player’s engagement with
their context by raising an awareness of pre-defined
themes connected with an transcending beyond the
perceived reality (hype)

6. “Study the past,
if you would divine the future” - Confucius
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7. Games and playing are not new

8. Defining concepts (formality)
Categories of play
• Being playful
• Ludic activities
• Gam play
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9. Designers and Players
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10. Example
Hypercontextualized Games (HCG)
Heroes of
Koskenniska
(HoK)
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11. Heroes of Koskenniska (HoK)
What to do? This is our reality:
Winter - Spring Summer
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12. Heroes of Koskenniska (HoK)
Lake
Winter - Spring

13. Heroes of Koskenniska (HoK)
photos by Monika Zych-Laine

14. Heroes of Koskenniska (HoK)
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15. Heroes of Koskenniska (HoK)
Different activities, eg. calculate
the age of the tree:
characters by a local artist All these are game components

16. Hypercontextualized Games (HCG)
is a locally designed game system,
which helps its players to gain
awareness of different subject by using
specific elements of its continuously
changing context.

17. HCG model
Information of Game System
subject matter (affective)
(intellectual)
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18. Thank you for your attention
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