Superstar Tokyo
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Superstar is a multiplayer photo-based game designed for Ubicomp 2005, Tokyo. The game is free, and open for anyone with a phonecam and self-portrait Puri Kura stickers of themselves.
The game uses Japanese Puri Kura stickers as a starting point for an experiment in social networks, automated phonecam image analysis, and urban visual culture. To play, place your own stickers (with a star on it to recognize participants) wherever you want and collect the stickers of other players by shooting them with your phonecam. Whenever a player snaps a Superstar sticker both players earn points. A link is then created between the two players. From this point on, any time either player earns points (by shooting a new sticker or by having their sticker shot) the other one will also earn points (though not as many). Superstar thus builds a network of connections that forms a social, pyramid scheme. Successful players will be the ones that forge connections with other active players.
Automated image recognition (e.g. Mobot technology) will decipher who is photographing whom when players email their images to SuperstarHQ via their phonecam. A message is returned via SMS indicating points earned. Developed by Frank Lantz, Kevin Slavin (areacode) together with Kamida (makers of Socialight), Michael Sharon and Dan Mellinger (Kamida) Details in the PDF. Via Metroblogging Tokyo. |
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Superstar is a nutty social-network game, or "game," going on in Tokyo in conjunction with Ubicomp 2005. Here's how it works. You take your own portrait photo in a puri-kura booth, making sure to include a star in the mix... Read More
Who's Photographing Whom? Superstar is a multiplayer photo-based game designed for Ubicomp 2005, Tokyo. The game is free, and open for anyone with a phonecam and self-portrait Puri Kura stickers of themselves. The game uses Japanese Puri Kura stickers ... Read More
A cool game based on the phone and photo booth technology of Japan. The idea of the game is pretty simple: Goal: Get points by shooting the stickers of other players and by having other players shoot your own. I don’t think there is any othe... Read More
