Running with the PAC!
By Paul Coulton
PAC-LAN was a version of the classic video game PACMAN in which human players ran around a real world game maze formed by the buildings of Lancaster University.
The game was played using mobile phones equipped with RFID technology which is the same as is now used for the Oyster cards on the London Underground as a replacement for paper tickets.
Games have long been acknowledged as being the heart of how we learn about our place in the world. As HG Wells put it in 1911 “The men of tomorrow will gain strength from the nursery floor”. Many of us believe the learning power of games and their unparalleled ability to engage can be extended way beyond nursery floor and that the citizens of the future may well gain knowledge from an increasing gamefulness of our streets.
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