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Improving Games by SMS Through the MobileDeck Concept: A Quiz Game Proposal Focused on Emerging Markets

Authors:
Mauro Ricardo da Silva Teófilo
Marlon Farias da Luz

Keywords: mobile game; emerging market service; mobile application; SMS (Short Message Service)

Abstract:
This paper describes a case study of a quiz game designed to be used using SMS technology; the study consists of monitoring the game adaption to the MobileDeck concept. In the MobileDeck concept, the SMSs are received and sent through an appropriate graphical user interface. System efficiency and game improvement will be analyzed and discussed in this paper, in order to infer that the use of this proposed model is beneficial to the ecosystem of games based on SMS. The integration of the cited game to MobileDeck concept was proved a success, providing a new way of playing games via SMS.

Pages: 139 to 142

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: September 25, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-152-6

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from September 25, 2011 to September 30, 2011