• Pokémon go uses heritage sites but people aren’t

really “on site” when they play there

• The poke-stops in the game shows an image of

what you can already see in the real world

• The extended information show what you can

already read on the plaque / info boards on site.

Images of bad things

• Ludo-narrative dissonance [issue with rule-based

space]

• The AR is gimicky rather than integral / interesting

/ informative [issue with mediated spatial plane]

• Narrative / world and the position of the player is

not well defined [issue with ethos]

• Simplicity

• Learning

• Aesthetics

• Embodiment

• Social

Pokémon Go: Back in Time

• Pokemon Go: expansion / DLC / mode / thing

• Focus on exploring / using narrative to turn spaces

[both game and historic] into places.

• Interweave the Rule-based, mediated, fictional,

play and social spaces together

• Get GO to be transmedial-er

• Use what isn’t there [the intangible cultural

heritage]

• Use the Pokéstops as portals to the past [show

parts of our narrative past that aren't physical and

tie the Pokémon world into it – build the topos +

ethos]

• Narrative / challenges focus around the places:

ie Meeps

• Links to external information Crusader Kings style

• Diary mode to augment your own experiences + images onto the map.

I had no idea sheep did sheep things here. OMG

Other witty journal entry here

• Intended user: classrooms looking to use Pokémon GO to explore

heritage / history

• Though could be extended for, you-know, everyone.

• Use same as now – casual geolocation game.

• 5-6 minutes at each stop to do a challenge / get narrative fragments

• Stories change the more you are there the more stories you get. Track

how much of history you have explored of a place. Replay value.

• Enacted Narrative: use the movement in actual

space to progress the story, create stories

• Emergent Narrative: use it as an authoring

environment to collect peoples new uses of

historic sites.