Paper to pixels: A chronicle of map interfaces in games

Phoebe O. Toups Dugas; Nicolas Lalone; Katta Spiel; Bill Hamilton

doi:10.1145/3357236.3395502

Paper to pixels: A chronicle of map interfaces in games

Phoebe O. Toups Dugas, Nicolas Lalone, Katta Spiel, Bill Hamilton

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Abstract

Game map interfaces provide an alternative perspective on the worlds players inhabit.compared to navigation applications popular in day-to-day life, game maps have different affordances to match players' situated goals. To contextualize and understand these differences and how they developed, we present a historical chronicle of game map interfaces. Starting from how games came to involve maps, we trace how maps are first separate from the game, becoming more and more integrated into play until converging in smartphone-style interfaces. We synthesize several game history texts with critical engagement with 123 key games to develop this map-focused chronicle, from which we highlight trends and opportunities for future map designs. Our work contributes a record of trends in game map interfaces that can serve as a source of reference and inspiration to game designers, digital physical-world map designers, and game scholars.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Editors	Will Odom, Audrey Desjardins, Marianne Graves Petersen
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1433-1451
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450369749
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395502
Publication status	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	Designing Interactive Systems 2020 - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 6 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020 https://dis.acm.org/2020/ (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3357236 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	Designing Interactive Systems 2020
Abbreviated title	DIS 2020
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	6/07/20 → 10/07/20
Internet address	https://dis.acm.org/2020/ (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3357236 (Proceedings)

Keywords

First-person experiential methods
Game cartography interfaces
Game map interfaces
Well-played history

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Toups Dugas, PO, Lalone, N, Spiel, K & Hamilton, B 2020, Paper to pixels: A chronicle of map interfaces in games. in W Odom, A Desjardins & M Graves Petersen (eds), Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, pp. 1433-1451, Designing Interactive Systems 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395502

Paper to pixels: A chronicle of map interfaces in games. / Toups Dugas, Phoebe O.; Lalone, Nicolas; Spiel, Katta et al.
Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. ed. / Will Odom; Audrey Desjardins; Marianne Graves Petersen. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 1433-1451.

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