Community Circles
A location-based mobile game from my Master's Thesis that turns urban planning into a participatory game. Citizens drop geo-referenced contributions (ideas, issues, opinions, polls) and watch communities grow around them.
The game works like this: Players of Community Circles drop geo-referenced contributions (ideas, issues, opinions, and polls) onto a map. Each contribution has an impact area that grows with engagement and can merge with neighbouring areas to form communities. Contributions also carry a lifetime, extended by ongoing activity. The long-term aim is to grow and sustain real communities.
The prototype is a functional hybrid mobile app paired with a backend server. The concept was evaluated through a game trial with real users; the screenshots below are taken from that build.
The clip below, written in Processing, illustrates the core dynamic: contributions appear, gain impact as activity collects, and merge into communities over time.
This work was carried out within the interdisciplinary research project in cooperation with the Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (FTW). A work-in-progress poster was presented at the CHI'14 conference in Toronto, Canada. The original project site is preserved at /archives/cc.b-part.eu/.