Location
Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii
Event Website
https://hicss.hawaii.edu/
Start Date
3-1-2024 12:00 AM
End Date
6-1-2024 12:00 AM
Description
This paper details our design process for “Grassroots: Unite, Reclaim, Maintain,” a location-based mobile game (LBMG) about fostering community through decolonial practices emphasizing mobility justice. Many mainstream LBMGs tend to reinforce a colonialist rhetoric through competitive gameplay based upon claiming and exploiting territories in the virtual world overlaid on the physical world. Through the ludic experience within the virtual world of “Grassroots,” we hope to encourage a new sense of connection, accessibility, and understanding of physical places.
Recommended Citation
Scardua, Mariá and Fennimore, John, "Grassroots: Developing a Location-Based Game through a Decolonial Lens" (2024). Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2024 (HICSS-57). 2.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-57/sj/decolonizing_is/2
Grassroots: Developing a Location-Based Game through a Decolonial Lens
Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii
This paper details our design process for “Grassroots: Unite, Reclaim, Maintain,” a location-based mobile game (LBMG) about fostering community through decolonial practices emphasizing mobility justice. Many mainstream LBMGs tend to reinforce a colonialist rhetoric through competitive gameplay based upon claiming and exploiting territories in the virtual world overlaid on the physical world. Through the ludic experience within the virtual world of “Grassroots,” we hope to encourage a new sense of connection, accessibility, and understanding of physical places.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/hicss-57/sj/decolonizing_is/2