The Digital Dragon Boat Race Project

The Amusement game infrastructure allows MUSE partners to develop themed cultural treasure hunts or ‘crawls’ that will lead players on a footpath through the city, combining puzzles and quizzes with learning and play. Game players collect clues around the city, input answers through their cell phones, and receive responses that will lead them through a real life playground.

The Digital Dragon Boat Race (DDBR) is a competitive REAL game played on foot using wireless technology to discover 6 locations significant to the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival’s history in Chinatown and area.

Players or Teams (up to 4 people) with the fastest times collecting clues and discovering the locations will compete in the playoffs at Science World Saturday June 18/05. Game can be played anytime between May 29 and June 16, 2005

To play you need a cell phone with a mobile Internet browser. Most of the local carriers and cell phones in use today include everything you need to participate with even their most basic plans and phones.

The Digital Dragon Boat Race challenges teams to achieve the fastest time possible as they navigate a maze of clues leading them on a thrilling, culturally amplified, treasure hunt through Vancouver’s Chinatown and area. The Digital Dragon Boat Race is the first of its kind game experience in North America and will appeal to all levels of thrill seekers.

 
Amusement Partners
The Digital Dragon Boat Race is a collaborative project. We would like to acknowledge the design contributions of the Alcan Dragon Boat Festival and Science World.

Alcan Dragon Boat Festival
• Ann Phelps, General Manager
• Beth Freeman, Sponsorship
• Alexis Gall, Marketing Coordinator
• Cam Andrews, Creative Director
• Anita Webster, Public Relations
• Cindy Jiang, Content Creation

Science World
• Kevin Kearns, Vice President, Exhibits and Programs
• Dr. Sandy Eix, Exhibit and Program Developer
• Terry Coates, Exhibit and Program Developer
• Anteneh Wondimu, Electronics Technologist

Amusement Advisors
• David Vogt, MUSE Executive Director
• Jim Udall, MUSE Research Director
• Lynda Brown, Executive Director, New Media BC
• Robert Ouimet, At Large Media
• Emma L. Payne, At Large Media

Amusement Team
Lead Rodger Lea, Technology Infrastructure
• Mike Blackstock, Technology Infrastructure
• Clay Howey, Application Design, BCIT GAIT
• Vicki Moulder, Project Manager, Information Design
• Mike Snelgrove, PLayoff Game Design and Programming
• Ted Lau, Visual Design, Ballistic Arts Media Studios
• Monica Krake, Content Creation, Communications Liaison
• Jessica Raya, Game Content
• Rob Muir, Mapping Locations
• Meghan Deutscher, Quality Assurance Coordinator, UBC
• Phillip Jeffrey, Quality Assurance Coordinators, UBC
• Ben Sayo, Application Development, BCIT GAIT Lab
• Radina Nikolic, Application Development, BCIT GAIT Lab
• Eric Guevremont, PDA Application Design & Development, BCIT GAIT Lab

Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology (CPROST)
Lead Richard Smith, Associate Professor, School of Communication
• Marc Tuters, Research Assistant
• Angie Hsieh (MA), Research Assistant
• Dan Acton Schick (MA), Research Assistant
• Florence Chee (MA), Research Assistant