Location-based mobile games can be used to raise awareness of social issues and encourage donations for causes. Revolution Flame creates such games, including one in Barcelona to help homeless entrepreneurs. Their presentation discussed using games to develop skills through collaboration and creativity. It proposed making geographic information system (GIS) maps the battleground for games to spread awareness of issues. Case studies like "My Life as a Refugee" and "iHobo" showed how games can illustrate the complex issues around homelessness and refugees. The presentation concluded that combining sustainable game design with location data can create real social impact.

1. Location Based Mobile Games
(LBMG/LBSN) for Social Impact
Revolution Flame Presentation

2. Hassan Raza
IoT/M2M Ninja
CEO/Co-Founder, RevolutionFlame
Board Member, Acts of Kindness
Technical Consultant, Homeless Entrepreneur

3. • Growth Hackers
• Creative Digital Agency
• Data Driven Digital Marketing
• Smart Context Aware Solutions
Who We Are?

4. @thecraft
y
GIS Day 2017
Discovering the World Through GIS
Demonstrating Real-World applications that are
making a difference in our society.

5. Social Games
DEVELOP
Real-world skills

6. Social Games
BUILD
Collaboration
Team Games

7. Social Games
INVOKE
Creativity
Role Playing Games

8. Demo Overview
What do these examples
have in common?

9. Demo Overview
The core activity is BATTLE

10. Demo Overview
What if Battle ground
is a GIS Map?

11. Case Study

12. Gamifying
Social Impact
Location Based Mobile
Games
Turning life into a game

13. Using gamification to
Increase awareness of
social issues
Encourage donations to
causes.

14. The Way we think
about Charity is dead
wrong
Dan Pallotta

15. My Life as a Refugee
http://mylifeasarefugee.org
LIFE AND DEATH DECISIONS
To Spread awareness
Case Study

16. iHobo
• App where people had to look after a
young person living rough on the streets
• To raise awareness of the complex and
varied issues around youth homelessness

17. Our Recent Project
Developing Location Based Mobile Game
for Enabling Citizens of Barcelona to help
homeless entrepreneurs

18. Content Players
Interacting
Acting
Location Based Games Engagement Style
Explore
Express Compete
Collaborate

19. Content Players
Interacting
Acting
Games Engagement Cloud
Explore
Express Compete
Comment Like
Collaborate
Share
Help
Give
Greet
Collect
Rate
View
Review
Vote
Curate
Challenge
Showoff
Compare Taunt
Create Win
Customize Choose
Purchase
Decorate
Build
Design

20. 3 Key Stages of Player’s
Lifecycle Enthusiast
Mastery
Regular
Habit-Building
Newbie
Onboarding

21. • Know the engagement style of your players
• Design for onboarding, habit-building and mastery
• Put PERMA into your core engagement loops
• Use progress mechanics to light the way
• Reward players with power, autonomy and belonging
• Build a system that’s easy to learn, hard to master
• As players progress, increase the challenge
Social Game Design for a Connected World

26. Sustainable Game
Interfaces
+
Location
=
Real Impact!

27. Contact Me:
hassan.raza@revolutionflame.com
Twitter: @hasanphd
Happy GIS Day
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