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Participatory Gaming

Looking to customize play, users turn to games that require personal input

Implications - As the DIY phenomenon continues to dominate, consumers are becoming more adamant about personal input, resulting in a desire for more customizable sources of everyday entertainment. Seeking to add personal touches to traditional sources of play, consumers are turning to video games that are based on user contribution, speaking to a desire for community involvement and a sense of belonging.
Trend Themes
1. Participatory Gaming - The desire for personalized input from consumers is creating a demand for user-contributed video games, allowing for community involvement and a sense of belonging.
2. Interactive Storytelling - The use of spatial storytelling technology to create touchless musical instruments, and webcam-controlled gaming avatars, is offering a new dimension to gaming, creating innovative and realistic user experiences.
3. Customizable Gaming Platforms - Customizable video game platforms like Mario Maker are changing the way gamers interact, encouraging user-generated content, and offering opportunities across diverse industries with game-based learning, data analytics insights, and social media content creation.
Industry Implications
1. Gaming - The gaming industry is experiencing a shift towards participatory, immersive, customizable experiences, offering opportunities in virtual reality, artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
2. Education - Interactive storytelling technology is being used in education to enhance student engagement and gamify learning, allowing for student-generated content, and personalized learning choices.
3. Marketing - Customizable gaming platforms and webcam-controlled gaming avatars are offering opportunities for social media content creation, gamification of marketing strategies, and data insights for customer profiling.
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Touchless Musical Apps
This Sensory iPhone App Translates Movement Into Music
The Theremin I/O app was developed by Johan Nordberg and Giosuè Russo. This special app allows you to turn your iPhone camera into a touchless musical instrument. Incorporating your smartphone&#... MORE
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Customizable Platformer Games
Nintendo's Mario Maker Will Let You Build Your Own Levels
The announcement of the new Mario Maker game was a big one made by Nintendo at the E3 2014 conference yesterday. Inspired by the classic 2D Mario platformer, Mario Maker will let gamers create their... MORE
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Spatial Tablet Gaming Apps
'IDNA' Uses Spatial Story Telling for a New Kind of Gaming Experience
The ‘IDNA’ is a spatial story telling app that turns gaming into a 360-degree experience. Instead of holding the iPad still and interacting with buttons, users are required to move the entire... MORE
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Tailored Zombie Game Apps
Season Two of the Walking Dead App Adjusts Gameplay Based on Choices
Season two of the Walking Dead app is a continuation of the highly successful game’s first season, which follows the story of characters who are living in the same universe as the TV characters... MORE
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Creating a video game avatar is part of the fun of gaming, but FaceRig introduces a whole new way to bring characters to life. In short, FaceRig makes use of a webcam to capture your facial... MORE
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Reality-Infused Video Games
The Sports Drive Logger Infues Real Driver Data into a Video Game
The Sports Drive Logger is a device that records car and driver data and incorporates it into a video game virtual car and driver. The technology is the result of a collaboration between automaker... MORE

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