Title
SYGo - A Location-Based Game Adapted from the Board Game Scotland Yard
Abstract
In this paper we introduce SYGo, an innovative hide-andseek game which is part of the AMOGA research project of the University of Bonn in cooperation with and funded by Deutsche Telekom. It is an adoption of the famous German board game Scotland Yard by Ravensburger. Besides being a location-based mobile version of Scotland Yard it comes with plenty of additional features concerning game flow, strategic planning, and sustainability. The latter is achieved since the game is designed with respect to an emerging community which again enhances the fun of playing. To cover just a few highlights SYGo includes communication features like conference calls and server-side SMS generation. Via a build-in game shop tools, services, and extra features, carrying special semantics and strategic avail, can be purchased. The main focus of this paper is presenting results from accomplished user experiences, focus group tests, and professional test sessions carried out by us, Deutsche Telekom, and Ravensburger.
Year
Venue
Field
2009
GI Jahrestagung
Engineering management,Operations research,Yard,Engineering,Strategic planning,Sustainability,Focus group,Semantics,German
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.74
References 
Authors
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mark Schmatz111.42
Katja Henke2132.92
Clemens Türck310.74
Christian Mohr4143.91
Timo Sackmann511.42